96 BULLETIN 132, UNITtlD STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Type. — In American Museum. 

 Type locality. — Montclair, N. J. 



Food plant. — EupatoriuTri perfoliatum, (larvae in seeds and on 

 young leaves). 



12. POLYCHROSIS CARDUANA Busck 



(Figs. 181, 363) 



Polychrosis carduana Busck, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 15, 1907, 

 p. 134. — Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 

 67S5, 1917.— Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, 

 p. 472. 



Male genitalia without spine tuft from base of sacculus; spine 

 cluster Spc ^ large and heavy, arch between it and Spc ^ broad and 

 iounded; aedoeagus with short spine on upper edge near apex. 



Male and female genitalia figured from reared specimens in Na- 

 tional Collection from Decatur, 111. ("on thistle, July 24-31," male), 

 and Hyattsville, Md. (Busck, "Aug. 06," female paratype). 



Distribution. — Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois. 



Alar expanse. — 9-12 mm. 



Type. — In National Collection. 



Type locality. — Hyattsville, Md. 



Food plant. — Cirsium (Carduus) (larvae on top leaves and in 

 flowers). 



13. POLYCHROSIS BLANDULA, new BBecies 

 (Fig. 368) 



Resembling yarkana in its white hind wings, but otherwise quite 

 different. 



Palpus and face sordid ocherous fuscous shaded with black. Fore 

 wing with a blackish basal patch; antemedian band beginning on 

 costa as a pair of dull metallic bars separated by a line of black 

 scales and continued on dorsum as a large white spot; median band 

 a black bar from costa to top of cell, below this ocherous, slightly 

 dusted at middle v/ith blackish scales, obscure and more or less fused 

 with the faint ocherous subtornal spot; subapical spot large, filling 

 most of the terminal area, pale ocherous fuscous faintly margined 

 inw^ardly by paler ocherous shading; dorsum finely spotted with 

 blackish; costal spots faint, blackish to beyond middle, toward apex 

 brownish ocherous somewhat dusted with black; a blackish apical 

 spot and some slight dusting of black on termen below apex; cilia 

 leaden wdth a blackish basal band broken with white scaling at 

 tornus. To the naked eye the fore wing shows a blackish triangular 

 shade on basal half extending from dorsum at basal third to outer 

 third of costa and including the basal patch, the costal half of the 

 antemedian and median bands and the first of the outer costal spots; 



