146 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIONAL. MUSEUM. 



13. EPIBLEMA EXACERBATRICANA, new species. 



(Pig. 264.) 



Like irisidiosana Heinrich except darker and with fore wings 

 narrower in proportion to their length. Palpi, face, and head sordid 

 grayish white tinged with ochreous; third joint of palpus black. 

 Fore wing ashy gray white with darker fuscous gray basal patch, 

 outer dorsal patch, costal strigulae and clouding above ocelloid 

 patch; ocellus consisting of two vertical bars of whitish semi- 

 metallic scaling (sometimes faintly tinted with pink) and a median 

 dark spot or streak breaking into the outer bar ; cilia whitish, heavily 

 dusted with fuscous gray. Hind wing dark smoky fuscous; cilia a 

 trifle paler with dark basal band. Legs ashy fuscous on outer sides 

 faintly ringed on tibiae and tarsi with ochreous white; sordid 

 ochreous white on inner sides. 



Male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanse. — 11-13 mm. 



Type. — In collection Barnes. 



Paratypes. — Cat. No. 24826, U.S.N.M. Also in American Museum 

 and collection Barnes. 



Type locality. — Southern Pines, North Carolina. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Described from male type and 14 male and 4 female paratypes 

 from Southern Pines, North Carolina ("Aug. 16-23 " to " Sept. 16- 

 23"), all from Doctor Barnes's collection. On genitalia and pat- 

 tern appears to be a distinct species close to insidiosana. 



14. EPIBLEMA TRIPAKTITANA (Zeller). 



(Fig. 270.) 



Paedisca tripartitana Zellek, Verb. Zool-bot. Ges. Wien., vol. 25, 1875, p. 308. 



Euoosma tripartitana Fernald, in Dj'ar List N. Arner. Lepid., no. 5141, 1903. — 



Barnes and McDuwnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7025, 1917. 



A distinct species, easily recognized by the characters given in the 

 key. 



Male genitalia figured from specimen in National Collection from 

 Cocoanut Grove, Florida (E. A. Schwarz). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum and collection Barnes : Florida and Texas. One speci- 

 men in the American Museum from Brownsville, Texas, labeled 

 as reared from Rudheckia; presumably this species but too badly 

 rubbed to allow of certain identification. 



Alar expanse. — 14-21 mm. 



Type. — In Museum Comparative Zoology. 



Type locality. — Dallas, Texas. 



Food plant. — " Gutierrezia microcephala " (Zeller) ; Rudheckia^ 

 larva an inquilin in Cecidomyid galls (Wm. T. Davis) . 



