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Vol. XXXIX. 



LONDON, J.\NUARY, 1907. 



No. 



NEW MICRO-LEPIDOPI'ERA. 



BY W. D. KKARFOTl', MONTCLAIR, N. J. 



New species of Micro-Lepidoptera are accumulating so rapidly that 

 it seems a necessity to get tliem described and labelled in order to properly 

 \, ke care of them. This is especially so in the case of species named for 

 correspondents, and to overcome the objection of having numbers of 

 AfS. names in collections. 

 — Eiiarmonia Youngana, sp. nov. — Expanse, 8 to 1 1 mm. 



Head smoky-black, scales with a metallic reflection, tips paler. 

 Palpi yellowish-gray. Antennse dark brown, obscurely annulated with 

 shining yellow. Thorax blackish-brown, minutely dotted with metallic. 

 Abdomen black, dotted with golden metallic scales. 



Fore wing shining bronzy-brown ; crossed at middle by a pair of 

 shining bluish-white fascia?, and similar pair in the outer third of wing. 



The inner half of the dark basal area is heavily overlaid with the 

 bfuish-white metallic scales. There are three pairs of white costal spots, 

 followed by a single one before the apex. The inner pair at inner third are 

 the beginning of the first [lairof metallic fasciae, which curve outwardly to 

 middle of wing, then droj) directly to dorsal margin, where they are very much 

 wider. The second pair of while costal spots are just beyond the middle, 

 and from the two of them a single streak of blue-metallic runs, outward y 

 oblique, to the middle of the wing. The third pair of white costal spots 

 are in outer fourth, and from each a blue-metallic fascia proceeds, outwardly 

 oblique, to middle of wing, thence angles inward nearly to but not reaching 

 dorsum at angle; between the two is a black ocellic spot, divided by three 

 lines of golden scales into four horizontal bars ; opposite the ocellic spot 

 and on inner side of this fascia is a similar velvety-black spot. From the 

 seventh white costal spot is a short spur of metallic- blue defining a lunate 

 yellowish-white apical spot. 



Beyond the middle of the wing the dark groinid colour is overlaid 

 with vertical wavy rows of golden-yellow scales. The three outer costal 

 spots are each marked in the centre by a liny black point. A line of black 



