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20. EPIBLEMA CAROLINANA (Walsingham). 



(Fig. 277.) 



Paedisca (?) caroUnana Walsingham, Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1895, p. 509. 

 Eucosma caroUnana Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5150, 1903. — 



Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7020, 1917. 

 Eucosma Carolina Kearfott, Ins. of New Jersey, 1909, p. 542. 



A striking and easily recognized species. In the National Col- 

 lection there is a female from New Brighton, Pennsylvania (" Mer- 

 rick, VIII-13-'07 "), bearing a label with the notation " reared from 

 Rhudbeckia." Its habits are probably the same as the other species 

 of this immediate group. 



Male genitalia figured from specimen in American Museum from 

 Montclair, New Jersey ("Kearfott, VIII-2"). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Amer- 

 ican Museum, and collection Barnes : New Jersey, New York, Penn- 

 sylvania, Illinois, Manitoba. 



Alar expanse. — 19-26 mm. 



Type. — In British Museum. 



Type locality. — North Carolina. 



Food plant. — Rudbeckia. 



21, EPIBLEMA HIRSUTANA (Walsingham). 



Paedisca Mrsutana Walsingham, IUus. Lepid. Heter, Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1879, 



p. 50. 

 Eucosma Mrsutana Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5132. — ^Barnes 



and McDTJNN0iT6H,^heck List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 6990, 1917. 



I have seen nothing that could be definitely determined as this 

 species. It is keyed and placed here entirely on Walsingham's 

 description and figure. 



Alar expanse. — 13 mm. 



Type. — In British Museum. 



Type locality. — Sonoma County, California. 



Food plant. — ^Unknown. 



22. EPIBLEMA PURPURISSATANA, new species. 



(Fig. 267.) 



Antennae gray; rather strongly pubescent in the male. Palpus 

 dirty gray white shaded with leaden gray towards end of second 

 joint; short, hardly projecting beyond head. Head and thorax 

 ochreous gray, the latter somewhat dusted with dirty white. Fore 

 wing of male with a broad appressed fold extending to slightly 

 beyond middle of costa; blackish fuscous, somewhat ferruginous 

 brown on costa toward apex and bordering termen; a dirty white 

 patch on dorsum near midde ; also a considerable suffusion of dirty 

 white over dark ground of extreme base of wing; from the upper 



