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10. Fore wing with median area ferruginous ocherous ; postmedian area darker. 



(2) osmundana. 



Fore wing otherwise ; if rather pale ferruginous brown in middle, than 



with postmedian area paler or broken by irregular white lines 11. 



11. Fore wing showing to the naked eye a number of shining metallic bluish 



spots or lines 12. 



Metallic markings obscured or obliterated ; not apparent to the naked 

 eye 20. 



12. Cilia of fore wing conspicuously white toward apex ; dark on lower half 



of termen 13. 



Cilia of fore wing rather uniformly colored ; if somewhat whitish, not 

 conspicuously so toward apex '. 14. 



13. Hind wing uniformly dark throughout on upper and under side ; cilia only 



white toward apex (6) siderana chalybeana. 



Hind wing whitish toward base ; dark smoky fuscous beyond, the dark 

 areas narrower on under than on upper side of wing ; cilia shining white 

 almost to inner angle (5) albiciliana. 



14. Fore wing no paler in postmedian area than at middle 15. 



Fore wing paler in postmedian area than at middle IG. 



15. Head bright ocherous toward front (3) auricapitana. 



Head dark fuscous toward front (4) agilana. 



IG. Basal patch, median band, subtornal spot and subapical bar of fore wing 



all distinctly defined to the naked eye 17. 



One or more of the above markings obscured by dark dusting on pale ante- 

 median area or pale suffusion on dark areas ; median band often fusing 

 with dark basal and subtornal patches 18. 



17. Pale dusting on dark areas of fore wing ferruginous brown_ (7) sordidana. 

 Pale dusting on dark areas of fore wing light ocherous (8) galaxana, 



18. Underside of fore and hind wings concolorous, dark shining smoky fuscous. 



(11) coruscana. 



Underside of hind wing much paler than underside of fore wing, 



whitish 19. 



19. Fore wing with termen nearly vertical, slanting only slightly ; tornus rather 



abruptly rounded (9) constellatana. 



Fore wing with termen slanting in even curve from apex to around tox'nus ; 

 ^tornus evenly rounded (10) astrologana. 



20. Fore wing with antemedian and postmedian areas whitish ocherous and 



sharply defining a brownish median band_. 21. 



Fore wing with antemedian and postmedian areas more or less whitish, 

 but with no ocherous tint ; dark median band sometimes sharply defined 

 but often mottled and broken by pale scaling^ 24. 



21. Median dark band of fore wing produced at middle into a single outwardly 



projecting tooth (24) septentrionana. 



Median dark band not produced at middle; or, if so, into two teeth 22. 



22. Subapical bar of fore wing extending in a broad band from tornus to costa. 



(12) puncticostana. 



(18) puncticostana major. 



Subapical bar from above tornus, and terminating, as an appreciable band, 



before costa 23. 



23. Median band partially divided by a faint longitudinal pale streak (male) ; 



or completely inclosing a white dlscal dot (female) (14) deprecatoria. 



No such longitudinal pale streak in median band; white discal dot, where 

 distinguishable, but partially inclosed I>y median band (15) cespitana. 



