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leaden scaling on the fore wing. The two species differ markedly in 

 the shape of the harpes of the male genitalia. 



Male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanse. — 13-15 mm. 



Tyfe.—Q2ii. No. 24835 U.S.N.M. 



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

 lection Barnes. 



Type locality. — Greenwood Lake, New Jersey. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Described from male type and one male paratype from Greenwood 

 Lake, New Jersey ("Kearfott, June"), one female paratype from 

 Plummer Island, Maryland (" Busck, July"), one female paratype 

 from Montclair, New Jersey (" Kearfott, June ") , and one female 

 paratype from the Grote and Robinson collection of the American 

 Museum without locality label ("No. 137"). These specimens had 

 been confused by Kearfott with Epiblema ohruptana Walsingham, 

 and formed part of the series of that species in the National Collec- 

 tion and the American Museum collections. It is quite distinct from 

 the true abruptana^ however, both on structural and superficial 

 characters. 



5. GRETCHENA BOLLIANA (Slingerland.) 



(Fig. 322.) 



Steganoptt/cha bolliana Slingekland, Rural New Yorker, June, 1896, p. 401.— 



Keaefott, Journ. New York Ent. Soc, vol. 16, 1908, p. 173. 

 Protcopteryx holUana Gill, Farmers' Bull., no. 843, U. S. Dept. Agr., 1917, p. 25. 



This species is known in economic literature as the " Pecan Bud- 

 Moth." Pecan appears to be its favorite food plant, the larvae feed- 

 ing upon the buds and leaves and often doing considerable damage 

 to young orchards. It has also been occasionally reared from Hick- 

 ory/, and in the National Collection there are several specimens 

 labeled " from Walnut." Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 stalked. 



Male genitalia from specimen in the National Collection reared 

 from pecan under Quaintance no. 12827 (Lafayette, Louisiana. 

 "X-1-1914"). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum, and collection Barnes : Florida, Texas, Louisiana, North 

 Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania. District of Co- 

 lumbia, New Jersey, Illinois. 



Alar expanse. — 16-18 mm. 



Type. — In collection Cornell University. 



Type locality. — Ocean Springs, Mississippi. 



Food plant. — Pecan, hickory, walnut. 



