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Localities: Cincinnati, Ohio; Balsam, North Carolina. 



The type is from Cincinnati and is one of the series of 

 reared specimens. 



Type and paratypcs in author's collection; paratype in the 

 collection of the Entomological Branch, Department of Agri- 

 culture, Ottawa, Canada. 



The pale green larva feeds on Eupatorium perfoliafum, 

 making at first a very long much-contorted linear mine, later 

 feeding externally on the under side of the leaf, eating small 

 patches and leaving only the upper epidermis. A single leaf 

 contains often twenty or more mines. The white-ribbed co- 

 coon is spun on the under side of the leaf, usually up against 

 the midrib. Larvae and cocoons collected August 13, pro- 

 duced imagoes from August 16 to 24. An earlier generation 

 of moths appears at the beginning of July. 



This species is allied to B. trifasciclla Clemens, but dififers 

 from it in the brilliant luster of the markings and the ab- 

 sence of the costal streak near the base. 



Bucculatrix insolita n. sp. 



Face dark graj-, tuft of whitish and dark gray or brown scales in- 

 termixed; eye-caps grayish, antennal stalk black. Thorax and basal 

 third of fore wings white to a line extending a little obliquely out- 

 ward from costa to dorsum. Costal edge from base almost to one- 

 third black; a few scattered black scales near base of dorsum, and 

 usually a patch of ocherous fuscous dusting on the fold within the 

 basal third. Middle third of wing blackish, bordered outwardly by 

 two oblique curved white streaks, meeting in the middle of the 

 wing. Apical third of wing dusted with fuscous, black and tawny 

 scales. A white costal streak precedes the apex, in which there is a 

 small black spot. Cilia dark gray, with a Hne of black-tipped scales 

 around the apex. Hind w'ings and cilia fuscous. Legs black, tarsal 

 segments silvery at base. Abdomen blackish with silver}' gray anal 

 tuft. Expanse : 7-7.5 mm. 



Locality: San Bernardino Mountains, California (August 

 29-30), with the note "beaten from fir." 

 ' Types in author's collection. 



The very striking contrast between the almost white basal 

 third and the black middle of the wing will assure immediate 

 recognition of this species. 



