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Scotland, and Ireland in May ; and Stainton records it as found only in May 

 in England. 



Larva. — In Euro])(>, the larva feeds on the alder (Stainton's Manual). 

 "The caterpillar is stout and obese; it conceals itself during the day in a 

 roUed-up leaf of the alder, in which it feeds exclusively by night. Its color 

 is dingy yellow, with a medio-dorsal and two lateral lines of a glaucous 

 green." — Newman's British Moths, 153. 



Hydeiomena caufobniata Packard. Plate 8, figs. 30, 32, 33. 



Hjipiiipeles ctdiforniatii Pack., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xiii, 3'.)(i, 1871. 



Ckiaria bintriohila Zeller, Vorli. Z.-B. Ges. Wieu., xxii, 41):?, Iii72. 



Chlar'ia (/Uiuaila Pack., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 20, pi. 1, fi^. fi, .Ian., 18? 1. 



12 (? and 6 9-. — Fore wings more produced toward the apex, outer edge 

 more oblique, and the whole moth rather larger than H. trifnscinta. Reddish 

 ash-gray, usually with a decided brownish tinge, front of the head pale ash; 

 palpi long, brown, j)ale on the edges. Eyes black; teguloe pale ash, speckled 

 with black. Base of fore wings reddish ; an oblique, l)lack, basal line finely 

 and acutely pointed on the median vein (sometimes the angle is wanting) 

 goes obliquely outward; it is bordered within with reddish; this, with an 

 irregular black line crossing the wing obliquely just before the discal dot and 

 bordered within with red, forms a dark l)and crossing the wing and enclosing 

 a median white or whitish-ash band ; a dark, irregular, black, extradiscal 

 line forming a great angle on the last subcostal venule, where it is connected 

 with an oblique, black, apical, broken line, and joining a dark patch or tuft 

 of ciTufi just beyond the middle of the inner edge ; between this and the 

 median line is a clear reddish-ash area, narrow on the inner edge of the wing, 

 and three times as wide on the costa, and enclosing a linear, long, black, 

 discal dot: this extradiscal line is broadly bordered externally and internally 

 with reddish-brown, which is f()ll()wed by a watery-ash band indented on the 

 venules; beyond, the wing is dark asii, the fringe concolorous; the oblique, 

 black, apical fine consists of three or four longitudinal spots. Hind wings 

 rather paler and of the same color beneath, with a single, extradiscal, dusky 

 band, sometimes wanting. Fore wings considerably dark(M- beneath. 



Length of body, S, 0.50-0.58, 9, 0.50; of fore wing, <?, 0.55-0.70, 

 9, 0.62-0.65; expanse of wings, 1.05-1.40 inches. 



Albany, N. Y. (Lintner, 2805); Philadelphia, Pa. (Amer. Ent. Soc); 

 West Virginia. .\|)ril 27 (Mead): Soiilhwestei-n Kenlneky (Kent ueky Geo- 



