64 BULLETIN 132, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Genitalia figured from specimens in American Museum (male 

 type) and National Collection (female paratype from the type lo- 

 cality (C. V. Piper, " 11 Mch.-78 ") ). 



Distribution. — Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California. 

 Represented by large reared series in the National Museum. 



Alar expanse. — 16-20 mm. 



Tyjye. — In American Museum. 



Type locality. — Pullman, Wash. 



Food plant. — Pinus ponderosa, P. jeffreyi. 



36. LASPEYRESIA MISCITATA, new species 

 (Fig. 160) 



An intermediate between L. piperana Kearfott and Hedulia in- 

 jectiva and partaking of the characters of both species. It lacks en- 

 tirely the hairy vestiture of the latter. Both otherwise resembles it 

 very closely ; having blackish palpi and similarly colored hind wings. 

 The head is black as in injectiva but with a pepering of white at the 

 scale ends. Tlie fore wing is glossy at base as in piperana; but gen- 

 erally darker (in most specimens) and colored more as in injectiva; 

 at tornus on inner margin of the terminal metallic bar there is more 

 black scaling than in either of the other two species, this is some- 

 times extended into irregular streaks and gives the appearance of an 

 ocelloid patch. 



Genitalia as in injectiva. In the female the genital plate varies 

 somewhat in size and shape in different specimens; in some it is 

 quite like that of injectiva, in others narrower and smaller ; the ex- 

 treme form is shown in figure 160 (paratype from the type locality). 



Alar expanse. — 11.5-17 mm. 



Type.— Cat. No. 28023, U.S.N.M. 



Paratypes. — In National Collection, American Museum, Canadian 

 National and Barnes collections. 



Type locality. — Shasta National Forest, Calif. 



Food plants. — Pinus ponde7'osa, P. jejfreyi. 



Described from male type and 4 female paratypes from the type 

 locality (reared under Hopk. U. S. No. 11414, May, 1912, from larvae 

 feeding in cones of P. jeffreyi, J. M. Miller) ; 2 male and 2 female 

 paratypes from Ashland, Oreg. (reared May 11, June 24, and Aug. 

 26, 1914, under Hopk. U. S. Nos. 10876 and 12539 h, from P. pon- 

 derosa, P. D. Sargent) ; 2 male and 1 female paratypes from Fel- 

 ton, Calif, (reared Dec. 30, 1916 under Hopk. U. S. No. 11312a 

 from P. ponderosa, P. D. Sargent) ; one female paratype from Bray, 

 Calif, (reared September 18, 1915, under Hopk. U. S. No. 14298^- from 

 P. ponderosa, J. D. Riggs) ; and one female paratype from Verdi, 

 Nev. ("June 1-10," A. H. Vachell) ; this last had been included 



