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Larva on hickory and blue beech; similar to C. biguttata, but with a yellow 

 line across mesothorax. 



Florida specimens belong to the variety parallela. Moth in July. 



Gaspe", Quebec, to Illinois and Florida. New York : Batavia, Lewiston, Buffalo, 

 Ithaca, Big Indian Valley, Poughkeepsie, New Windsor, New York City, Staten 

 Island, Long Island. 



13. TORTRICIDIA Packard 

 (Heterogenea, in part, etc.) 



Palpi obliquely upturned to well beyond middle of front; fore wing with outer 

 margin strongly oblique, apex rounded, costa more arched, and inner margin 

 less sinuous than in Cochlidion. Larva with depressed spaces large and sharp; 

 skin granulated but not spinulated; marked with red dorsally. In first stage, 

 with setae i and ii equal. 



Kroncea minuta probably belongs to this genus or to Heterogenea. 



1. T. fiskeana Dyar. Fore wing tawny yellow, with a straight, oblique median 

 line, sharply defined on its inner side, and a strongly curved one across the apex, 

 the space between them sometimes more or less filled with brown. Hind wing 

 nearly black. 14-15 mm. 



This form is perhaps a variety of minuta. The lines are less diffuse than in 

 Heterogenea shurtleffi. 



Durham, New Hampshire; Iowa. 



2. T. flexuosa Grote. Similar to T. fiskeana, both wings pale yellow, the lines 

 not suffused. 15-25 mm. 



In variety caesonia Grote (H 47:12) the medial area is suffused with brown. 

 Larva green with yellow subdorsal lines; the red dorsal markings, when extended 

 laterally in cross form, not reaching more than halfway to the lateral margins; 

 sometimes reduced to one or two spots. 



Quebec to New Jersey and western Pennsylvania. New York: Ithaca, De Bruce, 

 Big Indian Valley, Onteora Mountain, Ilion, Sharon Springs, /Rhinebeck, Pough- 

 keepsie, Windsor, Bronx Park, New York City, Long Island. 



The dark form caesonia Grote, is known from Big Indian Valley, Coeymans, and 

 Poughkeepsie. 



3. T. pallida Herrich-Schseffer. Fore wing light pinkish brown; hind wing straw 

 yellow, typically immaculate, in var. flavula Herrich-Schseffer showing traces of 

 lines. 10-18 mm. 



The larva occurs on willow oak, and other shrubs. It is green, with the usual 

 two subdorsal yellow lines, with a large, red, cross-shaped mark extending from 

 end to end of the body, and from side to side at the middle, the anterior arm 

 of the cross narrow, but the posterior widening into a patch. The moth flies 

 in July. 



Southern Maine to southern New York; probably more widespread but over- 

 looked. New York: Plattsburg, Keene Valley, Ithaca, Staten Island; Brooklyn, 

 and Bellport, Long Island. 



4. T. testacea Packard. Dull, light brown with a broad, dark, median shade, 

 darkest along the veins. Hind wings paler. 15 mm. (H 47:11.) 



Larva with the dorsal red patch as long and wide as the body, but symmetrical 

 from front to back ; feeding on oak, birch, wild cherry, and so forth. 



Nova Scotia to northern New Jersey and Illinois. New York: Plattsburg, 

 Saranac Lake, Red Lake, Ithaca, McLean, Big Indian Valley, Staten Island; 

 Merrick, Long Island. 



5. T? (Kronaea) minuta. Fore wings straw yellow, hind wings blackish, immacu- 

 late 10 mm. 



