96 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIOISrAL MUSEUM. 



IPaedisca circulana Walsingham, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond., ISSJ:, p. 136. 



The specimens under this name in the collections have been very 

 badly mixed and the conception of the species itself somewhat con- 

 fused in spite of Hiibner's very accurate figure. His name applies 

 obviously to a form which has the ground color above the ocellus in 

 the fore wing yellow and unmarked by white or fuscous scales. 

 Eucosma scintillana Clemens which has been listed as a variety or 

 synonym of circidaria is an entirely different species as the genitalia 

 show. 



Hiibner described circulana as from Pennsylvania, but I have seen 

 specimens only from Florida and Louisiana. It is not common and 

 the usual references to it in literature apply to scintillana Clemens. 

 In Florida itself there appear to be two species or at least two distinct 

 races on the east and v>^est coast, hardly to be distinguished in color 

 or pattern but with so much difference in the genitalia that I do not 

 feel justified in including them under the same name. The name 

 gemellana is proposed for the west coast specimens. 



Male genitalia of E. circulana figured from typical specimen in 

 National Collection taken at Hastings, Florida. 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum and Collection Barnes : Florida, Louisiana. 



Alar expanse. — 16 mm. 



Type. — Location unknown. 



Type locality. — " Pennsylvania." 



Food plant. — ^Unknown. 



38. EUCOSMA CIRCULANA GEMELLANA. new variety. 



(Fig. 150.) 



Like circulana Hiibner from which it differs only in male genitalia 

 and in the pale putty colored shading on costa of fore wing from 

 base to beyond middle. In circulana this part of the costa is more 

 or less dusted with fuscous scales. The neck of the harpe of the male 

 genitalia is narrower while the harpe itself is larger than in circulana. 



Male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanse. — 19-24 mm. 



Type.—Q2ii. No. 24805 U.S.N.M. 



Paratype. — In collection Barnes. 



Type locality. — St. Petersburg, Florida. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Described from male type and two male paratypes. The type and 

 one paratype are from St. Petersburg, Florida (the latter from 

 Doctor Barnes' collection collected by E. Ludwig (" 4-11-14 "). The 

 other specimen is a large male without abdomen from the Walsing- 

 ham collection, labeled " Florida, Morrison, 1884 " and with the 

 name " Paedisca circulana " in Walsingham's handwriting. 



