158 Bulletin American Museum of Natural History. [Vol. XXIII, 



Epinotia ilicifoliana sp. nov. 

 Plate VIII, Figs. 8 and 9. 



Expanse, c? and $ , 13.5 to 15 mm. 



Head dull gray, shaded with brown above eyes; palpi dark gray outside, lighter 

 gray within; antenna? dull fuscous. Thorax dull gray, mixed with brown scales, 

 with a purplish gleam, which is particularly strong on anterior and posterior ends 

 of patagia. Abdomen silky fuscous above, faintly tinged with purple, below shining 

 cinereous, darker on anal joints; legs shining cinereous, fore and middle tibisp and 

 tarsi annulated with brown. 



Fore wing grayish cinereous, in a broad band from inner half of costa to dorsal 

 margin, which is connected with large ocellic spot of the same shade. Dorsal patch 

 to inner third on costa and half on dorsum, boundary line dentate; dull brown on 

 dorsal half shading into cinereous brown above, and with a small grayish cinereous 

 patch on dorsum. The costa is marked with about eleven purplish brown dots, 

 between each a tiny dot of the same color, separated by shining gray; beyond the 

 middle pale stripe these dots are large and conspicuous, the inner one (at middle of 

 wing) being extended downward to end of cell, then joining a crescent shaped dash 

 of the same color which sends a spur into the apex; above this crescent mark the 

 costal spots are outlined below by yellow; the dark apical spot is the largest and is 

 hook-shaped outwardly. Before the anal angle is a small triangular brownish spot, 

 sometimes sending a yellowish line to the crescent above it. Ocellus not distinctly 

 defined, but the gray ocellic region covers the outer third of wing below the crescent; 

 it is slightly strigulated with vertical rows of brown scales, a curved one before the 

 margin being most prominent. Cilia below the apical spot, dull fuscous outwardly, 

 shining gray within. 



Hind wing smoky brown, darker toward apex, cilia paler, preceded by a dark, 

 then a light line. Underside of both wings brown with a faint grayish pubescence, 

 costal spots of fore wing repeated. 



Larva 12 mm. long, color dull yellow, green shining through in irregular blotches 

 on dorsal and lateral regions. Head, prothoracic shield and thoracic-legs black. 

 A large poli.shed black tubercule just in front of spiracle and a smaller one on base 

 of leg, on joint 2. Anal shield green, not chitinous. Prothoracic .shield divided by 

 a paler dorsal line. 



This species is quite variable, and range.s to a form in which the central 

 gray fascia is ahiiost obsolete, the dark area covering all of the costal and 

 inner half of wing, the gray only appearing on the outer dorsal half, below 

 the crescent to the boundary of the basal j)atch. 



Bred from larvfE tying and crumjiling the young leaves and terminal 

 twigs of a species of Ile.r, jirobably verticiUata Linn., collected by Mrs. 

 Beutenniiiller on Mount Graybeard, No. Car., full grown May 20, in pupa 

 May 27, and issued between June 10 and 20. Also bred by the writer 

 from the same food-plant in Essex (^ounty Park, N. J., with about the 

 same dates; found on one bush only, about six feet in diameter and the 

 same height. About the middle of May for the past six years, this bush 



