296 W. D. KEARFOTT. 



vertical to eacli other, and above them in middle of edge of patch a third spot. 

 The lower half of this patch is outwardly bordered by a narrow black line before 

 the cilia. Beyond dark upper half of patch a faint brown line, interrupted by 

 three whitish dots, and a fourth whitish dot beneath a black small apical spot, 

 between the latter and cilia light brown. A generally paler triangular patch 

 covers costa from just before middle to nearly to apex, bounded inwardly by 

 darker fascia and horizontal dark median streak and outwardly by the generally 

 darker submarginal space. This lighter area, inwardly below costa, is over- 

 laid with a few grey scales, below which is an irregular patch largely mixed 

 with whitish scales. On costa the ligiit space is broken by two equally-spaced 

 shades of darker scales, before the inner shade are two small dots of black. Cilia 

 slaty-grey, outwardly shaded with light fuscous on lower half. 



Underside: — Dark smoky-fuscous, veins darker, eight geminated whitish spots 

 on costa; cilia fuscous, with a narrow subciliate whitish line; all the surface be- 

 low the fold is whitish. Hindwing smoky-black, not shaded. Cilia paler. All 

 surface above vein 8 whitish. Expanse 8 to 9 mm. 



U. S. Nat. Mas., type No. 8151. 



Bred from Eupatorium perfolintuni L. Larva July 6th and 9th, 

 pupa July 15th to 20, issued August 2nd to 9th, Montclair, N. J. I 

 have taken the larvse of what I believe is the same species about the 

 middle of September, but failed to carry them over the winter. 

 Mid-summer brood tunnelling a passage in the young flower heads, 

 slightly silk lined. The fall brood on the mature flower heads and 

 soft seeds, tunnelling as with second brood. The spring brood can 

 be looked for in young terminal leaves. 



Larva 8 to 9 mm. Cylindrical, more robust than viteana, slightly tapering, 

 olive-green. Head flattened, chestnut-brown; mouth parts darker brown, ocellic 

 field, lateral dashes, thoracic feet dark brown. Pro-thoracic shield light chest- 

 nut brown, darker shaded on posterior edge. Tubercular plates moderate, nearly 

 concolorous, shining. Anal shield not chitinous. 



This and the following species are of a different style of ornamen- 

 tation than the preceding. The ground of slingerlandana consists 

 of a mottled mass of ochreous and brown, the lilaceous shades are 

 almost obsolete ; the fasciae and spots are also very illy defined and 

 are almost lost in the prevailing color. Hindwing very dark, 

 smoky-black. 



Named in honor of Prof. M. V. Slingerland, of Cornell Experi- 

 ment Station, whose important economic investigation in the habits 

 of the gra[)e-berry moth, the results of which will shortly ap- 

 pear in a special bulletin, has been the stimulus for the present 

 paper. 



Polyclirosis rhoifructana sp. nov. 



Head and palpi yellowish brown, thorax darker brown. Antennae dark fus- 



