368 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



Primaries powdery; reniform not contrasting ; s. t. line continuous. 

 Dull gray, powderings coarse; median lines diffuse; veins outwardly 

 defined by dark scales secundalis. 



Ashen to yellowish or reddish-gray; median lines not diffuse; veins 

 not relieved finitima. 



Primaries even in color, not powdery. 



S. t. line continuous, preceded by dark shade; median lines clean cut. 



siibflavidaliN. 



S. t: line wanting or punctiform ; reniform conspicuous, black. 

 Larger; median lines distinct ; costal patches not conspicuous. 



historians. 

 Smaller; median lines usually lost; costal patches conspicuous. 



leiiaiiM. 

 Pleonectyptera pyralis Hubner. ^ 



1818. Hbn., Zutraege, 1, 23, f. 127, 128, Hemeroplanis. 

 1872. Grt., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, iv, 23, Pleonectypiera. 

 1880. Grt., Can. Ent., xii, 87, Pleonectyptera. 

 1903. Holland, Moth Book, 246, pi. 29, f. 19, Pleonectyptera. 



irrecta Walker. 

 1865. Wlk., Cat. Brit. Mus., Het., xxxiv, 993, Poaphila. 

 1893. Smith, Bull. 44 U. S. Nat. Mus., 362, pr. syn. 



fioccalis Zell. 

 1872. ^ell.. Verb. k. k., Zool.-bot. Ges., xxii, 47, pi. 1, f. 10, Coptocuemia. 

 1891. Smith, List Lepidoptera, 61, pr. syn. 

 1893. Smith, Bull. 44 U. S. Nat. Mus., 362, pr. syn. 

 Head and collar chocolate-brown, with intermingled gray-tipped scales. 

 Thorax and abdomen bright yellow, the abdomen with a reddish or brown shad- 

 ing. Primaries yellow to the t. p. line and then beyond that line chocolate- 

 brown, except that at the inward angulation of the line on vein 7, the brown 

 shade continues on obliquely to the apex so as to form an almost even line from 

 apex to outer third of internal margin. T. a. line brown, single, slender, a little 

 outcurved and somewhat irregular in course. Median line distinct, brown, out- 

 wardly bent from costa to the reniform, then evenly oblique, parallel with the 

 t. p. line to the middle of the inner margin. T. p. line slender, brown, outwardly 

 oblique to vein 7, then abruptly bent and inwardly oblique to inner margin at 

 outer third. S. t. line punctiform. outwardly marked with leaden gray scales, 

 inwardly shaded with blackish, this in varying amount so as at times to become 

 almost a continuous irregular band. Fringes darker brown. Orbicular small, 

 brown, punctiform. Reniform brown, moderate in size, elliptical, not outlined. 

 Secondaries yellow to a little beyond middle, then brown, continuing the brown 

 shade of primaries obliquely across the wing. Median line of primaries also con- 

 tinued across secondaries at basal third, while the t. p. line crosses just within 

 the brown outer shading. Beneath yellow, with rusty red-brown shades and 

 powderings, both wings crossed by three blackish irregular lines, the outer 

 broadest and inwardly diffuse ; the primaries have the orbicular and reniform 

 more distinctly marked than above. Expands 1.12-1.28 inches = 28-32 mm. 



Hab. — Long Island to Florida and Texas; New Braunfel.^, 

 Texas, in June; South Carolina, in June; New Brunswick, New 

 Jersey, in July. 



