230 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Alar expanse. — 13 mm. 

 Type.—Q^i. No. 24854, U.S.KM. 

 Type locality, — Yukon, Alaska. 

 Food plant. — Unknown (probably Salix). 



Described from a single male type collected by G. I. Huntington, 

 August 3, 1916. 



58. EPINOTIA SEPTEMBERANA Kearfott. 

 (Fig. 353.) 



Epinotia septemberana Keabfott, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 33, 1907, p. 51. 

 Enarmonm septemberana Babnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 

 Amer., no. 7136, 1917. 



This and the following two species have a similar pattern. The 

 dorsal area of the fore wing is whitish more or less finely spotted 

 with fuscous, and with two projections into the contrasted dark 

 shade on upper half of the wing, a triangular or subtriangular pro- 

 jection near middle and an arched or rounded one above tornus. In 

 septemherana the triangular projection is not so sharply defined as 

 in vagana and lindana and the arched projection above tornus is ap- 

 preciably flattened. 



Male genitalia from cotype in National Collection from Essex 

 County Park, New Jersey (Kearfott, "X-27-03"). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum, and collection Barnes: New Jersey, Pennsylvania. 



Alar expanse. — 16-19 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Type locality. — Essex County Park, New Jersey. 



Food plant. — ^Unloiown. 



59. EPINOTIA VAGANA, new species. 



(Fig. 335.) 



With the color scheme of septemberana and the pattern of 

 lindana. 



Antennae ferruginous above, grayish beneath. Palpi ferruginous 

 with a somewhat purplish tint; shading to grayish white on inner 

 sides. Head ferruginous on sides, ferruginous-ochreous on top. 

 Thorax ferruginous. Fore wing ferruginous with a purplish bloom 

 over costal half and with the dorsal area white, somewhat speckled 

 with fuscous or ferruginous scales; the whitish dorsal area limited 

 above by a fine white line forming a triangular projection at middle 

 and a rounded arch well above tomus; pale area near tornus some- 

 what suffused with ferruginous ochreous; cilia ferruginous with a 

 narrow, longitudinal black streak at tornus. Hind wing very pale 

 smoky fuscous ; cilia whitish with a dark basal band. 



