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~The Canadian Entomologist. 
VOL, IV, LONDON, ONT., DECEMBER, 1872. No. 12 
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MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 
Continued from Page 209 
YPSOLOPHUS. 
I. V. eupatoriella. NN. sp. 
Tongue dark brown; basal joint of the palpi, and the second joint 
externally, and on the under surface, dark brown ; upper surface pale 
ochreous ; tip white ; third joint dark ochreous, tipped with dark brown. 
Head pale bronzy brown, with purplish reflections, each scale tipped 
with white. Sides of the thorax and base of the wings ochreous yellow, 
extending along the costal portion of the wings, gradually narrowing to about 
the middle of the costa. A median, longitudinal, wide, violaceous, brown 
band extends over the thorax and along the extreme dorsal margin of the. 
wings, gradually becoming lighter in color till about the middle of the 
‘dorsal margin it unites with a bluish-purple wide band, which crosses the 
wing just behind the middle, gradually passing on the costal margin into 
the ochreous portion. Upon the fold, beginning near the base, is a velvetty 
deep black stripe which extends, gradually widening, to the bluish-purple 
band, and is deeply scalloped next to the ochreous portion of the wing, 
which it separates from the dorsal margin, | The bluish-purple band is 
narrowly margined externally by an ochreous line, followed by a narrow 
black line, behind which, to the apex, the wing is dark brown with faint 
ochreous or purplish reflections, the ciliz also being of the same hue, with 
a row of eight or nine small ochreous dots or streaks extending around 
their base. Under surface and legs bronzy dark brown ; tarsi annulate 
with pale ochreous. 
: The larva is greenish-white, over half an inch long. It feeds upon the 
under side of a folded leaf of Eupatorium ageratoides,folding it so as to apply 
one of the large veins to the midrib. It became a pupa under the folded 
edge of the leaf, July 12, and the imago emerged July 20. It is much 
the handsomest species of the genus known to me. 
