268 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



EPIBLEMA GRATUITANA, new species. 

 (Fig. 431.) 



Like purpirissatana Heinrich except for somewhat larger size, paler 

 palpi, face, and thorax, a broader suffusion of the white on fore- 

 wing (especially toward base), and its differently shaped harpes. 

 It would run to purpurissatmia in the key and would be separated 

 most readily by the whitish ochreous rather than dirty gray white 

 palpi. There is none of the lead-colored shading on the palpi such 

 as we have in purpurissatana. The cilia of the hind wing are paler 

 and the blackish dusting on forewing is less pronounced. Otherwise 

 the two species are alike in color and markings. The only genitalia 

 difference is in the shape of the harpes, but this is quite obvious, as 

 the figures will show. 



Right harpe of male genitalia of type figured. 



Alar expanse. — 15-16 mm. 



Type.—Q^l. No. 25850 U.S.N.M. ' 



Type locality. — East Sound, Washington. 



Food plant. — Unknown. 



Described from male type from the type locality dated, " 7-11-01," 

 and one female paratype from Wliidby Island, Washington (" 8-6- 

 99, T. Kincaid"). These two s]3ecimens were in the National Col- 

 lection under Laspeyresia fletcherana Kearfott, where they had been 

 placed by Kearfott. The male, in fact, bears a name label in his hand- 

 writing, '•'•Enarmonia fletcherana K. Metatype." The true fletcher- 

 ana is a Laspeyresia and of course something quite different. 



EPIBLEMA PEEICULOSANA, new species. 



(Fig. 428.) 



Antennae dark gray above, whitish ochreous beneath. Palpi whitish 

 ochreous dusted with dark gray on outer sides. Face gray. Head 

 ochreous with more or less admixture of gray. Thorax dark grayish 

 fuscous. Fore wing with short appressed costal fold in male ; termen 

 slanting, straight, not concave; veins 3 and 4 parallel from beyond 

 base; vein 11 from cell near base; vein 12 very short; color dark 

 grayish (or blackish) fuscous with a square white patch near middle 

 of dorsum and a whitish shading below costa beyond middle ; dorsal 

 white patch square, divided by a fine central dark line and not ex- 

 tending above middle of wing ; no defined ocelloid patch ; at middle 

 of subterminal area a smudge of black scaling ; rest of terminal area 

 somewhat dusted with brownish ochreous ; costal markings faint ; an 

 obscure black spot at apex and scattered black scales on dark areas 

 bordering the white dorsal patch; cilia grayish fuscous, somewhat 

 dusted with dirty white. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 very short 

 stalked, in type actually separate; color pale smoky fuscous; cilia 

 somewhat paler with a dark basal band. 



