Lithosiidae 
with pale yellow, the band of this color running out to nothing 
before it quite reaches the apex. The specimen figured on 
the plate came from Colorado. It is also said to occur in 
Canada and the northern portions of the United States. 
Genus HYPOPREPIA Hubner 
A small genus of North American moths, all the species of 
which occur within the territory covered by this book. The 
insects closely resemble each other, and the student who has 
learned to recognize one of them cannot fail to refer the others 
correctly to their genus. It is not, however, so easy to discrimi¬ 
nate the species. The following little key, which is taken from 
Hampson’s Catalogue, Vol. II, page 515, may help the student 
in making correct specific references : 
1. Ground-color of the fore wing wholly scarlet. miniata 
2. Ground-color of the fore wing yellow and crimson. fucosa 
3. Ground-color of the fore and hind Vdngs yellow. cadaverosa 
4. Ground-color of the fore wing fuscous brown, of the hind 
wing whitish. inculta 
(1) Hypoprepia miniata Kirby, Plate XIII, Fig. 41, $. 
(The Scarlet-winged Lichen-moth.) 
Syn. viltata Harris; subornata Neumoegen & Dyar. 
This rather common insect ranges from Canada to the 
Carolinas and westward in the region of the Great Lakes to 
Minnesota. It comes freely, as do all the species of the genus, to 
light, and I have found it very abundant at times about the 
lamps in the village of Saratoga, New York. I have taken it at 
Asheville, North Carolina, and at the White Sulphur Springs in 
West Virginia, but have never received specimens from low 
altitudes on the Virginian and Carolinian coasts. 
(2) Hypoprepia fucosa Hubner, Plate XIII, Fig. 42, £ . 
(The Painted Lichen-moth.) 
Syn. tricolor Fitch; plumbea Henry 
Edwards. 
This species, which may be 
easily distinguished from the 
preceding by the fact that the 
tip of the abdomen is not 
marked by a dark fuscous 
narrower marginal band of the secondaries, 
Fig. 50. —Hypoprepia fucosa 
(After Hampson.) 
spot, and by the 
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