210 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATTONAL MUSEUM. 



22. EPINOTIA SOUCITANA (Walker). 



(Figs. 363, 364.) 



Grapholita solicitana Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 28, 1863, p. 387. 

 Halonota packardiana Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., vol. 2, 1864, p. 417. 

 Paedisca tephrinana Zellee, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien., vol. 25, 1875, p. 308. 

 Paedisca solicitana Walsingham, Illus. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 5, 



1879, p. 55. 

 Eucosiiia solicitana Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5127, 1903. — 



Babnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 6972, 1917. 



One of Zeller's cotypes of tephrinana (a male) is in the National 

 Collection. It is labeled in Walsingham's handwriting as follows: 

 '"''Paedisca solicitana Wlk.=tephrinana Zell., Walsm. /86." The male 

 genitalia of this specimen is illustrated (fig. 363). The specimen 

 is in poor condition and the genitalia has been injured. In Figure 

 364 I show the genitalia of an undamaged specimen from Orono, 

 Maine, reared at the Maine Experiment Station ("Exp. 1337, 

 IV-10-11 ") from birch. 



This is a northern species. The specimens in the Kearfott collec- 

 tion from Pennsylvania, while having the same pattern and color- 

 ation as typical solicitana, are very doubtfully that species. I have 

 reared from catkins of hazel at Falls Church, Virginia, in company 

 with a number of moths of Epinotia walkereana, two specimens 

 which appeared to be solicitana. There is no superficial character 

 to separate them, yet the genitalia are different in both the shape of 

 the sacculus and the position of the sacculus spine cluster. I leave 

 them undescribed for the present, awaiting more material and fur- 

 ther rearings. 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Amer- 

 ican Museum, and collection Barnes: Maine, New Hampshire, Mas- 

 sachusetts ? , Pennsylvania ? . 



Alar expanse. — 13-14 mm. 



Types. — In British Museum {solicitana)^ {tephrinana?)-, lost? 

 {parkardiana) . 



Type localities. — Nova Scotia {solicitana) ; Labrador {packardi- 

 ana) ; " Massachusetts or Maine " {tephrinana). 



Food plant. — Birch. 



23. EPINOTIA HAMPTONANA (Kearfott). 

 (Fig. 362.) 



Eucosma haniptonana Kearfott, Can. Ent., vol. 39, 1907, p. 153. — Barnes and 

 McDunnough Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7027, 1917. 



Very close to solicitana but apparently distinct. The genitalia 

 are the same for the two except that the heavy spine cluster of sac- 

 culus is on the dorsal margin in hamptonana, while in solicitana it 

 is above the margin and nearer the basal orifice of the harpe. 



