IsrORXH AMERICAN EUCOSMINAE. 151 



Distinction according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum, and Collection Barnes: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 Florida. 



Alar expanse.— 14:.5-1Q mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Type locality. — Essex County, New Jersey. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



24. EPIBLEMA INFELIX, new species. 



(Fig. 276.) 



Head, thorax and fore wings brownish ochreous. Fore wing with- 

 termen slightly concave; veins 3, 4, and 5 somewhat approxi- 

 mate at termen; a rather large irregularly square white patch 

 on mid dorsum marked with one or two short fuscous dashes or 

 dots on dorsal margin; outer half of costa marked with four pair 

 of short white dashes which are continued in bluish metallic scales, 

 the metallic scaling shading a large part of outer third of wing; 

 ocellus consisting of two vertical bars of bluish metallic scales, the 

 inner one very broad, and a vertical central line of black scales, 

 which broadens into an outwardly pointed pot hook above ; a patch 

 or two of black scales on inner margin of ocellus; termen brown; 

 cilia brownish fuscous with a darker basal line. Hind wing dark 

 brown ; cilia but slightly paler. 



Male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanse. — 18-21 mm. 



Type.—Q^t. No. 24828, U.S.N.M. 



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

 tion Barnes. 



Type locality. — ^Tryon, North Carolina. 



Food plant. — Unknown 



Described from male type and one male and one female paratype 

 from Tryon, North Carolina (the type dated " 5-25-04 " and the 

 paratypes dated "7-5-04"), Fiske, collector. 



The type had been labeled Enarmonia americana Walsingham by 

 Kearfott and the female paratype had been made a cotype of {Enar- 

 monia) Epiblenia walsinghami Kearfott. The cotype of walsing- 

 hami from Tryon, North Carolina, in the American Museum is also 

 this species, but as it is somewhat abberant I do not include it among 

 my paratypes. The mid dorsal white spot on fore wing is sharply 

 triangular, as in tualsinghami^ and the dark color approaches that of 

 walsinghami a little more than it does infelix. Its genitalia and 

 venation, however, are those of the latter, and I have no doubt it is 

 that species. It is not walsingTiami. 



