112 BULLETIN 132, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Hind tibia of male without basal hair pencile. 



Male genitalia with harpe moderately long; outer surface un- 

 spined; cucullus finely and evenly spined, apex evenly rounded; 

 spine cluster Spc^^ stout ; spine cluster Spc^ a long tuft upon a more 

 or less produced digitus; sacculus arched over neck, weakly spined 

 at base. Uncus elongate, rounded, weakly chitinized. Socii elon- 

 gate, narrow, finely haired, attached along underside of uncus. 

 Gnathos well developed, very broad; produced beneath into a free, 

 sharp, strongly chitinized blade; subanal plate not differentiated. 

 Aedoeagus moderately long, nearly straight; apex pointed; cornuti 

 absent. 



Female genitalia with signum a scobinate patch (in type with 

 two ear-like projections). Ductus bursae moderately long, simple, 

 straight. 



A distinct North American genus. It genitalia characters closest 

 to Esia; but in pattern and general habits more like Eumarozia. 

 The three species have the same color scheme; old rose with darker 

 purplish pattern markings, some faintly silvery scaling and more 

 or less ocherous dusting. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OP ZOMARIA 



1. Subapical bar of forewing not continued to costa ; male with strong hair 



tuft on hind wing at base of costa, without strong hair pencile from base 



of vein la (1) interruptolineana. 



Subapical bar continued as a cui*\-ed band to midcosta ; male without hair 

 tuft on hind wing at base of costa, but with a strong yellow hair pencile 

 from base of vein la 2. 



2. Dorsum of forewing strongly suffused with yellowish from base to beyond 



middle (2) rosaochreana 



Dorsum somewhat yellowish at base, but yellow tint abruptly terminating 

 before middle (3) andromedana. 



1. ZOMARIA INTERRUPTOLINEANA (Fernald) 



(Figs. 59, 199, 408) 



Penthina interruptolineana Fernald, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 10, 1882, 



p. 70. 

 Olethreutes interruptolineana Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 



5040, 1903. — Keaefott, Ins. New Jersey, 1910, p. 540. — Fobbes, Memoir 



68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 1924, p. 457. 

 Argyroploce interruptolineana Barnes and McDunnough, Check List 



Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 6849, 1917. 



Male and female genitalia figured from specimens in National Col- 

 lection from East River, Conn. (C. R. Ely, "No. 253," "VII-27," 

 male), and Hampton, N. H. (S. A. Shaw, " VIII-9-1905," female). 



Distribution. — New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Mary- 

 land, District of Columbia, Ontario. 



