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apple or verdigris green to a dark absinthe green. The larvae feed 

 in tJtie cones on seeds of Spruce, Pine, and California Cypress. 

 Adults reared from the last are very dark and so diifferent in color 

 from the Spruce and Pine forms that I am giving them a separate 

 varietal designation. 



Male genitalia figured from cotype in National Collection from 

 Hoquiam, Washington (Burke, "7-21-04"). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum, and collection Barnes: Washington, California, and 

 British Columbia. 



Alar expanse.- — 16-19 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Type locality. — Hoquiam, Washington. 



Food plants. — Picea stichensis, Pinus radiata. 



17. EPINOTIA HOPKINSANA CUPRESSI. new variety. 



(Fig. 341.) 



Differs from typical hopkinsana Kearfott in the much darker 

 green color of thorax and primaries, which are a decided absinthe 

 rather than pale bluish or verdigris green shade ; in its dark fuscous 

 cilia on fore w^ing; and its dark smoky fuscous hind wing. The 

 cilia of the latter are concolorous with the wings and the dark basal 

 band is barely discernable. The genitalia do not differ to any ap- 

 preciable extent. 



Male genitalia figured from type. 



Alar expanse. — 19-21 mm. 



Type.—Q2.t. No. 24843, U.S.N.M. 



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

 lection Barnes. 



Type locality. — Cypress Point, California. 



Food plant. — Cupressus macrocarpa. 



Described from male type (reared under Hopk. U. S. no. 13264 C^, 

 Nov. 4, 1915, by J. M. Miller from larva feeding in cones of Cupressus 

 macrocarpa) ; one male and two female paratypes from Pacific 

 Grove, California (reared under Hopk. U. S. no. 12579g, Apr. 16 

 and 23, 1915, J. M. Miller) ; two male paratypes from Cypress Point, 

 California (Hopk. no. 13313f, Oct. 26, 1916, J. M. Miller) ; and two 

 female paratypes from the Kearfott collection taken at Lone Moun- 

 tain, San Francisco, California (F. X. WilHams, " VI-1-09 " and 

 "VI-10-09"). 



A distinct food plant variety of hopkinsana easily distinguished 

 by its much darker color. 



