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Mr. Haimbach, in wliose honor the species is named, has collected 

 scores of specimens in the daytime resting on the fence of a summer 

 garden at the corner of Allegheny Avenue and Broad Street. The 

 garden is filled with many varieties of shrubs and trees, and a care- 

 ful examination early in May would certainly disclose the larvae 

 twisting the young leaves of a plant allied to ilex. 



The generic notes regarding ilieifoliana will also apply to this 

 species. They are both allied to Clemens saliciana and salicicolana. 



Epiiiotia pliiinbolineana sp. nov. 



Expanse 13.5-16 mm. 



Head, antennje and palpi dark cream or very pale brown. Scales on head 

 erect above and between eyes, flattened on face. Palpi second joint with flat- 

 tened truncated tuft, scales rather closely appressed, end of third joint not hid- 

 den. Palpi rather depressed and not quite the length of head beyond it. Scales 

 forming collar, tipped with reddish wine color. Thorax same as head, smooth. 

 Abdomen alternately banded with cinereous and fuscous, the lighter color, the 

 tips of scales of each segment, anal tuft cinereous. Legs same as head, but in 

 front and tarsi stained with wine color. 



Forewing: grayish- white, tinged with cinereous ground color. A conspicuous 

 wide-red fascia from middle of costa to anal angle, broadest on costa and as wide 

 there as one-third to one-half of width of wing, gradually tapering to an obtuse 

 point at anal angle. The inner edge of this fascia curves evenly and obliquely 

 outward, the outer edge is sinuate, slightly concave above and convex below the 

 middle, the outer edge is outlined by a slender line of white lustrous scales from 

 costa nearly to anal angle, turning inward above and defining the obtuse lower 

 point of this fascia. Beyond this fascia the entire outer margin is clouded with 

 this same color, but a shade paler, roughly in the form of a triangle with the 

 base resting against the cilia, the other two sides coming to a point just beyond 

 end of cell. Above this triangle the costa from fascia to apex is ground color. 

 On the extreme apex are a few blackish scales, and in some of the darker speci- 

 mens a few of these scales are scattered over fascia and triangle. There are no 

 distinctly defined subapical costal spots, but four or five short streaks of more 

 lustrous white can be observed in some specimens. A basal area is only well de- 

 fined in some of the darker specimens, in these it covers the inner third of wing, 

 angulated on cell and of a light shade of brown. In the majority of specimens 

 this light brown basal color shades into the ground color, without very distinct 

 line of demarcation. A few dark dots mark this area in some specimens, usually 

 paralleling the fascia. The central fascia is narrowly edged with a whiter shade 

 than the ground color. The male costa is slightly curled up from base to outer 

 edge of fascia, and in the hollow thus formed is a narrow line of dark leaden 

 scales, doubtless a secondary sexual character, this liue begins just beyond base 

 and ends in middle of fascia. Cilia lustrous pink. 



Hindwing: dark gray, cilia paler, preceded by a darker, then a paler liue. 



Uuderside forewing: dark smoky fuscous, with cinereous line along costa from 

 outer three-fifths to just before apex. Cilia stained with dull pink, preceded by 

 a darker then a paler line. 



Underside hindwing: same as above. 



TEANS. AM. ENT. SOC. XXXIII. FEBRUARY, 1907. 



