150 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



outer angle of the mid dorsal white patch a streak of white extend- 

 ing to end of cell and ending in an upcurved white dash; three or 

 four obscure dirty white dashes on apical third of costa; ocellus 

 consisting of a shining broad bluish metallic inner bar and a nar- 

 rower outer bar of the same color enclosing three more or less coa- 

 lescing black streaks; areas bordering ocellus above and behind 

 heavily dusted with black ; a fine black line along terminal margin ; 

 cilia dirty ochreous white shading to blackish fuscous at tips. Hind 

 wing dark smoky brown ; cilia pale with a dark basal band. 



Male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanse. — 10.5-11.5 mm. 



Type. — ^In Canadian National Collection. 



Paratype.—QdX. No. 24827, U.S.N.M. 



Type locality. — Vernon, British Columbia. 



Food plant. — Wild rose. 



Described from male type and female paratype received from 

 Dr. J. M. McDunnough and labeled: "Vernon, B. C, from wild 

 roses, V-20." 



This species is apparently very close to hirsutana Walsingham. 

 I suspected it of being that form; but Walsingham states clearly 

 that hirsutana has the second joint of palpus clothed with long 

 scales which project far beyond, the apical joint. In purpurissatana 

 the scales are rather short and the third joint exposed. Superficially 

 it most resembles Epinotia heucherana Heinrich, with which it 

 might easily be confused. Its genitalia are, however, typically 

 Epiblemid. 



23. EPIBLEMA WALSINGHAMI (Kearfott). 



(Fig. 278.) 



Enarmonia walsingJiami Keaefott, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 33, 1907, p. 57. 

 Laspeyresia walsinghami Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 

 Amer., no. 7245, 1917. 



Kearfott's cotypes represent two species of Epihlema. The true 

 walsinghami is a broad winged dark form with a triangular mid- 

 dorsal white patch on fore wing and superficially looks like a Las- 

 peyresia resembling L. americana Walsingham from which Kear- 

 fott distinguished it. The Tryon, North Carolina, specimens from 

 the National Museum were divided by Kearfott, one of those he 

 labelled (incorrectly) L. americana, and two he included among 

 his cotypes of walsinghami. They are true Epihlema, but quite dis- 

 tinct on genitalia and other characters from loalsinghami, and of 

 course do not at all answer to americana, which is a true Laspeyresia^ 



Male genitalia figured from typical specimen in National Collec- 

 tion from Oak Station, Pennsylvania ("V-13-16"). 



