266 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



fascia; basal patch slightly angulate but broader on dorsum than 

 costa, dusted toward base with grayish white; outer fascia slanting 

 from mid costa to dorsum before tornus, nearly straight; ocelloid 

 patch consisting of three vertical silvery bars inclosing 9 or 10 

 black dots, 3 or 4 between inner and median bars and 6 between 

 median and outer bars ; above and below ocellus a clouding of gray- 

 ish fuscous; apex shaded with yellow-brown; costa between fascia 

 and apex, white, marked with three or four obscure brownish spots ; 

 white areas somewhat clouded with fuscous, giving them a grayish 

 white appearance; cilia white dusted with fuscous. Hind wing 

 rather pale smoky fuscous ; cilia white with a dark basal band ; veins 

 3 and 4 united. 



Eight harpe of male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanse. — 11.5-13.5 mm. 



Type. — In American Museum. 



Paratype. — Cat. No. 25617, U.S.N.M. Paratypes also in Canadian 

 National Collection. 



Type locality. — Aweme, Manitoba. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Described from male type, two male and one female paratypes all 

 from the type locality (Norman Criddle, collector), and dated 

 as follows: Type (" 22-VI-05 "), two male paratypes (" 4-VI-1921," 

 and "12-VI-1921"), female paratype (" 7-VI-1921 "). The type 

 is from the collection of the American Museum. The paratypes 

 were received through Dr. J. McDunnough. 



A very pretty little species resembling octopunctana and scalana^ 

 but distinguished from both on genitalia and color. In octopunctana 

 the basal patch and fascia are golden yellow. In scalana they are 

 dark grayish fuscous. The harpe of festivana has the anal angle of 

 cucuUus more sharply pointed than that of octopunctana, and less 

 produced than that of scalana. The new species also has fewer 

 cornuti on the penis than either of Walsingham's species. In the 

 key it would run down to scalana., and according to the arrangement 

 given should be placed between it and octopunctana. 



EUCOSMA SERAPICANA, new species. 



(Fig. 426.) 



Antennae, palpi, face, head, and thorax cream (or ivory) white. 

 Fore Aving cream white with a few obscure scattered dustings of 

 blackish scales; a peppering of black on the cilia; and an ocelloid 

 patch consisting of two faint vertical silvery bars inclosing three fine, 

 longitudinal, black streaks ; otherwise unmarked ; no trace of strigu- 

 lae on costa. Hind wing smoky fuscous; cilia white with a dark 

 basal band. 



