186 BUULETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



is no ocellus. The termen of fore wing is more decidedly slanting 

 than in any other species in the genus and veins 7 and 8 are closely 

 approximate at base, not stalked or connate. 



Male genitalia figured from specimen in National Collection from 

 Los Angeles, California. 



Specimens in National Collection, American Museum, and col- 

 lection Barnes from California. 



Alar expanse. — 17-21 mm. 



Type. — In British Museum. 



Type locality. — Crooked Eiver, near Klamath Lakes, southern 

 Oregon. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



17. GRISELDA, new genus. 



(Figs. 36, 329.) 



Genotype. — Paedisca radicana Walsingham. 



Fore wing smooth; termen concave between veins 3 and 5; 12 

 veins ; 7 and 8 approximate ; 10 remote from 9 but rather nearer to 

 9 than to 11 ; 11 from before middle of cell ; upper internal vein 

 of cell from between 10 and 11 ; 3, 4, and 5 only slightly approximate 

 at termen ; 2 very slightly bent up toward termen ; costal fold present 

 in male. 



Hind wing with 8 veins ; 6 and 7 approximate toward base ; 3 and 4 

 stalked. 



Male genitalia as in Epinotia except : 



Uncus bifurcate with arms short and widely separated. Aedoeagus 

 short and stout. 



A derivative of Epinotia. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF GRISELDA. 



1. Fore wing blackish fuscous with entire dorsal margin white, spotted with 



black (2) pennsylvaniana. 



Fore wing ochreous fuscous or pale gray ; otherwise marked 2 



2. Ground color of fore wing ochreous fuscous; dark markings blackish. 



(3) gemlae. 

 Ground color pale ashy gray ; dark markings ferruginous brown. 



(1) radicana. 



1. GRISELDA RADICANA (Walsingham). 

 (Figs. 36, 329.) 



Paedisca radicana Walsingham, Illus. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1879, 



p. 53. 

 Eucosma radicana Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5113, 1903. — 



Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 6948, 1917. 

 This species does not seem to have been knovvai to our Lepidop- 

 terists, for the specimens I have seen were either unnamed or wrongly 



