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Genus Cisthene Walker. 



1854 — Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., II, p. 533. 



Byssopkajja Behr. 



1872 — Behr, in Stretch, Zyg. and Bomb. N. A., I, p. 49. 



Pyralidia Felder. 



1874 — Felder, Reise der Novara, Lep. IV, pi. 106, fig. 23. 



Synopsis of species. 



Bright colored species with pink and yellow. 



A pale stripe on internal margin of primaries; apices of secondaries 

 usually slightly covered by lead color. 

 Complete transverse yellowish band on primaries . . unifascia. "^ 

 The band narrowed centrally .... var. tenuifascia. 

 A pale stripe near internal margin: apices of secondaries well covered 

 with lead color. 



A yellow mark at middle of costa subjecta. -^ 



This mark absent ....... var. plumbea. 



Dull colored species with no pink. 



Secondaries nearly unicolorous, smoky. 



Secondaries dirty white faustinula. 



Secondaries smoky gray ...... var. fusca. 



Secondaries yellowish with the apical fourth dark gray . . nexa. '^ 



C. unifa^ia Grote &" Robinson. 



1868 — Grote & Robinson, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. II, p. 175. 



var. tenuifacia Harvey. 



1875— Harvey, Bull. Buff. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 4. 



Primaries slate gray with a transverse band on outer third 

 and a longitudinal one along basal two thirds of internal margin, 

 pale yellow. Band varies in width. Abdomen and secondaries 

 pink, with tip of latter, or a rather broad outer border, lead color, 

 but costal edge pink. Thorax lead color or partly or wholly 

 yellow. Expanse, 14 — 15 mm. 



Habitat, Southern Atlantic States from New York to Texas. 



C. subjecta Walker. 



1854— Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Vol. II, p. 534. 

 packardii Grote. 

 1863 — Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila., Vol. II, p. 31. 



var. plumbea Stretch. 



1885 — Stretch, Ent. Amer. ,Vol. I, p. 102. 



Primaries lead colored with a spot on costa near apex, or 

 without this spot. Near internal margin a yellowish band from 

 base to near internal angle, dilated at the tip and sometimes 



