I^ORTH AMERICAN LASPEYRESIINAE AND OLETHREUTINAE 147 

 23. EXARTEMA SCIOTANUM Heinrich 

 (Figs. 93, 207) 



Exartema sciotanum Heinrich, Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 25, 1923, 



p. 115. 

 Cymolomia sciotana Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 



1924, p. 466. 



Represented so far in the three collections only by the type material 

 from the type locality. 



Female genitalia and harpe of male figured from paratypes in 

 National Collection and American Museum. 



Bursa of female with signum. 



Alar expanse. — 19-21 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Type locality. — Cincinnati, Ohio. 



24. EXARTEMA TREPIDULUM, new species 



(Fig. SI) 



Palpus whitish ocherous; second joint with considerable fuscous 

 shading on outer side and at apex, upper edge sometimes with a 

 faint rosy tint ; third joint fuscous. Face and head ocherous fuscous 

 shaded with smok}'- fuscous and with a slight admixture of purplish 

 scales. Thorax tawny-rose or rosy fuscous; posterior tuft much 

 darker, blackish brown. Fore wing with pale areas tawny rose or 

 rosy fuscous, and with dark pattern markings a velvety black- 

 brown; basal patch reduced to a narrow bar extending obliquely 

 from dorsal margin just beyond base upward to fold, the outer 

 edge continuing as a narrow dark line beyond fold to middle; 

 extreme base of wing and basal half of costa pale, concolorous 

 with antemedian area; antemedian pale area with a fine median 

 dark line; median bar dark and well defined, narrow on costa, 

 broad on dorsum; upper tooth very short, lower long; just above 

 lower tooth a fine longitudinal ocherous line livides the median 

 band; lower tooth narrowly connected to dorsal triangular portion 

 of median band; subtornal spot practically obsolete, indicated only 

 by a few faint lines of dark scales; subapical bar distinct, broadest 

 at extremity, only obscurely joined to first costal dash; costal dashes 

 brownish, a trifle paler and fainter than other dark markings. Hind 

 wings tawny fuscous; cilia a trifle paler with a dark basal band; 

 in male a decided notch at vein lb and a slight one at vein 5. 



Harp of male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanse. — 16.5-19 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



