NORTH AMERICAN EUCOSMINAE, 143 



Puratypes. — Cat. No. 24821 U.S.N.M. ; also in American Museum 

 and collection Barnes. 



Type locality. — Everglades, Florida (April, 1912). 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Described from male type and 9 male and 4 female paratypes from 

 Everglades, Florida, and five male paratypes from Fort Myer, 

 Florida, all from the Kearfott collection in the American Museum. 

 Kearfott had set this aside as a new species and given it the manu- 

 script name grosshecki, which I take pleasure in validating. I be- 

 lieve that it will eventually prove to be a synonym or at most a 

 Florida race of nuTiierosana^ but for the present it is better to name 

 it as a distinct species. 



7. EPIBLEMA PRAESUMPTIOSA, n©w species. 

 (Fig. 262.) 



Palpi, face, head, and antennae white; third joint of palpus and 

 second joint of antenna black ; a spot of blaskish fuscous scaling on 

 outer side of second joint of palpus. Thorax and fore wing white 

 faintly and evenly dusted with pale fuscous giving the entire insect 

 a uniformly grayish white appearance; costa of fore wing evenly 

 strigulated with pale fuscous; near apex a short but conspicuous 

 triangular white dash; at apex a pale fuscous spot; over vein Ic, 

 one-third from base, a conspicuous brown spot; a smaller fainter 

 brown spot on inner margin of ocellus ; ocellus white with a central 

 black dot and a similar black dot at upper margin ; cilia concolorous 

 with wing. Hind wings concolorous with fore wings; cilia slightly 

 paler. Legs white dusted with pale fuscous on outer sides. 



Male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanse. — 14-17 mm. 



Type.— Cut. No. 24822 U.S.N.M. 



Paratypes. — In National Collection, American Museum, and collec- 

 tion Barnes. 



Type locality. — Brownsville, Texas. 



Food plant. — ^Unknown. 



Described from male type and five female paratypes collected at 

 Brownsville, Texas, by August Busck ("5-27-17"). 



On genitalia hardly distinguishable from numeroana and abrupt- 

 ana, but superficially quite distinct. 



8. EPIBLEMA PRAESUMPTIOSA SEPARATIONIS, new variety. 



(Fig. 265.) 



Like pra^sumptiosa, except much smaller and without the brown 

 spots on vein Ic and at inner margin of ocellus. The genitalia also 

 differs in having the cucullus of the harpe more rounded. 



