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59. EPINOTIA NANANA (Treitachke) . 

 (Fig. 377.) 



Coccyx nanana Teeitschke, Schmett. Eur., vol. 10, pt. 3, 1835, p. 80. 

 Steganoptycha nanana Staudingeb and Rebel, Cat. Lepid., vol. 2, no. 1894, 1901. 

 Eucosma domonana Keaefott, Can. Ent., vol. 39, 1907, p. 79. — Barnes and 



McDuNNouGH, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 6991, 1917. 

 Epinotia piceafoUana Keaefott, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, vol. 16, 1908, p. 176. 

 Eucosma efficax Meyeick, Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. 48, 1912, p, 35. 

 Enarmonia piceafoUana Baenes and McDunnough, Check List, Lepid. Bor. 



Amer., no. 7163, 1917. 



A comparison of the types of domonana and 'piceafoUana easily 

 establishes the synonymy. Both the cotypes of doTnotumui are 

 females so that Kearfott's reference of it to Eucosma (a genus with 

 the costal fold) was a mere guess. His surmise that pioeafoliana 

 might be the same as the European nanana is verified by their 

 genitalia. 



Male genitalia from reared specimens in National Collection, 

 from Montclair, New Jersey (Kearfott, " VI-3 "). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum, and collection Barnes : New Jersey, Massachusetts, 

 Maine. 



Ala/r expanse. — 9.5-11 mm. 



Type. — In collection unknown ? (nanana) ; In American Museum 

 {doTuonana and piceafoUana) . 



Type localities. — Germany {nanmia) ; Cunningham, Massachusetts 

 {domonana)', Essex Park, New Jersey {piceafoUana). 



Food plant. — Picea mariana. 



51. EPINOTIA MERITANA, new species. 



(Fig. 381.) 



Antennae cream white faintly banded above with black. Palpi, 

 face, head and thorax cream color. Fore wing white, banded and 

 cross lined with blackish fuscous ; the dark markings forming an out- 

 wardly angulate basal patch and a transverse post median fascia; 

 the basal patch is much broken by white scaling especially at extreme 

 base of wing ; between basal patch and dark fascia the white shading 

 is most conspicuous, extending f rom costa to dorsum and containing 

 a very fine median dark line ; outer third of wing brown dusted with 

 black, the white scaling limited to costal strigulae and a slight shad- 

 ing along the outer margin of the post median fascia; four pair of 

 white streaks on outer half of costa, the first and second pair fusing 

 below costa and extending nearly to dorsal margin, forming the 

 light shading which borders outer margin of the dark fascia ; a fine 

 black line along terminal margin; on termen below apex a small 

 white spot ; ocellus nearly obsolete, indicated only by a couple of ob- 



