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Cotypes in U. S. Nat. Mus. 



This species was determined as Cacoecia georgiana Walk., with 

 a query, by Prof. Fernald, for Dr. Dyar's paper on "Notes on the 

 Winter Lepidoptera of Cape Worth, Fla.," Ent. Soc. Wash., Vol. 

 IV, p. 466, 1901. 



Tortrix albiconiaiia Clem., and varieties. 

 I have a large series of fifty or more specimens of this species, and 

 find they separate very nicely into four well-defined varieties, with 

 practically no connecting links. Clemen's type, which is well pre- 

 served in the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, is of the 

 pale lemon-yellow and ochreous form, with only a trace of the ferru- 

 ginous shading. I have already described, in Can. Ent., XXXVII, 

 p. 9, 1905, as var. semipurpurana, the form in which all of the fore- 

 wing is very dark purple, except a narrow basal area, a narrow 

 l)and around termen and apex, and a costal spot of yellow, and now 

 propose the following names to identify the other two varieties. 



"^ dorsipurpiirana var. uov. X — O '^^'1-' ^^^"'^'^^^ P V^^'*^- 

 Like type, excepting the extreme dorsul edge is stained with dark purple, en- * e/^^^Kvv. 

 larging at inner and outer fourth and contracted in the middle. 



Three specimens: Chicago, 111., June, J. H. Reading; New 

 Brighton, Pa., June 22d, F. A. Merrick. 



curvalaiia var. nov. C\ j-t's' M' ' 



Like type, except the forewing is overcast with a bright ochreish-red, except 

 at the base, and narrowly on termen, which are yellow, and a round yellowish 

 spot in middle of wing at end of cell. A distinguishing feature of this variety is 

 H wide, sweeping curve from outer third of costa to anal angle, which outlines the 

 ochreish-red area. 



Ten specimens : Montclair and Essex Co., N. J., June 14th to 

 28th ; one specimen bred from larva on huckleberry^ 



I think careful breeding may develop~"the tact that we have more 

 than one species in the above. Besides huckleberry, they have been 

 bred from rose and oak. I believe there is only one brood. The 

 larvfe are among the earliest in the spring, feeding on young leaves 

 in the bud before they have unfolded. 



Phalonia baiia sp. nov. 



Expanse 12-14 mm. 



Head and thorax rich brown, speckled with darker and lighter dots; palpi 

 creamy-brown, dotted with darker scales; antenna creamy-brown, obscurely 

 darker between joints; abdomen dark brown ; anal tuft ochreous. 



TBANS. AM. ENT. soc. XXXIII. (10) MARCH, 1907. 



