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KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF VITACEA 



Forewings opaque, brown-black; hindwings transparent; abdomen with seg- 

 ments 2 and 4 narrowly banded with yellow. 



polistiformis polistiformis (Harris) 

 Forewings and abdomen chestnut-brown. 



polistiformis form seminole (Neumoegen) 

 Abdomen conspicuously banded with yellow, black, and brown. 



polistiformis Huron, new form 

 Forewings buff or light brown; abdomen posteriorly pale yellow. 



cupressi (Hy. Edwards) 



Abdomen with the segments red and yellow admiranda (Hy. Edwards) 



Forewings brown-black, hindwings broadly margined and suffused between 

 veins; antennae tipped with orange scepsiformis (Hy. Edwards) 



VITACEA POLISTIFORMIS POLISTIFORMIS (Harris) 



Plate 2, Figure 18 ; Plate 10, Figures 49, 49a ; Plate 15, Figure 79 



Aegeria polistiformis Harris, Proc. Amer. Pomol. See, 1854, p. 216.— Glover, Rep. 

 U. S. Comm. Pat., 1854, p. 80, pi. 6, figs., 1855 ; Rep. U. S. Comm. Agr., 1867, p. 

 72, figs., 1868; 1873, p. 59, 1874; Monthly Rep. [U. S.] Dept. Agr., Oct. 1873, p. 

 496. — Walsh, First report of the State entomologist on the noxious and bene- 

 ficial insects of the State of Illinois, p. 24, 1868. — Packard, Guide to the study of 

 insects . . ., p. 278, and other editions, 1869. — Riley, Third report on the noxious 

 and other insects of the State of Missouri, p. 75, figs., 1871.— Bethune, Can. 

 Ent., vol. 5. p. 218, 1873. — Thomas, Seventh report of the State entomologist on 

 the noxious and beneficial insects of the State of Illinois, 1877, p. 171, 1878. — 

 Perkins, 5th Rep. Vermont Board Agr., p. 261, 1878. — Stout, Rep. Kansas Hort. 

 Soc, 1879, p. 88, 1880.— Marten, Tenth report of the State entomologist on the 

 noxious and beneficial insects of the State of Illinois, 1880, p. 108, 1881.— 

 Saunders, Insects injurious to fruits, p. 229, 1883; ed. 2, p. 229, 1889. 



Trochilium polistiformis FiTCH, Third report on the noxious insects of the State of 

 New York, 1856, p. 387, 1857. 



Aegeria polistaeformis Glover, Monthly Rep. [U. S.] Dept. Agr., Oct. 1867, p. 329. 



Sciapteron polistiformis Beutenmuller, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., vol. 5, p. 204, 

 1890 ; vol. 8, p. 22, 1896 ; vol. 9, p. 218, 1897.— Davis, Proc. Michigan State Hort. 

 Soc, 1894, p. 78, 1895.— Lugger, 4th Ann. Rep. Ent. Agr. Exp. Stat. Minnesota, 

 1898, p. 55, figs., 1899. 



Memythrtis polistiformis Beutenmuller, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, 

 p. 249, pi. 30, figs. 7, 8, 1901.— Brooks, Bull. West Virginia Agr. Exp. Stat., vol. 

 110, pp. 19-30, 1907. 



Paranlhrene polistiformis McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada 

 and the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8796, 1939. 



Male. — Antennae bipectinate, brown-black, fuscous at tips and beneath. 

 Labial palpus rough, red-brown, black at base and at the sides, third 

 joint pointed. Head brown, grizzly on top; face shiny whitish, occipital 

 fringe deep orange. Collar black, pale yellow at the sides. Thorax brown- 

 black, more or less touched with rufous before wing base, on lower tegulae 

 and on metathorax. Abdomen black shaded with brown, segments 2 and 

 4 narrowly banded with pale yellow, very faintly so beneath; anal tuft 

 short, blunt, brown-black, anteriorly with four orange-brown pencils, 

 the dorsal two long, the two on sides shorter. Legs orange-brown, 



