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brighter on outer half; outwardly with many of the scales luteous-tipped, giving 

 a frosted appearance; leaving several lead-gray bands of the ground, which are 

 strongly oblique toward costa, parallel to outer margin below, and confused in 

 the middle; with a few black spots and streaks in the yellow-dusted portion; 

 with a series, usually of four strong terminal dots, below the notch, and some- 

 times one small one above it. Hind wing solid dark. 12 mm. (Enarmonia 

 Kearfott. ) 



This species has been determined as Laspeyresia nigricana, but may be dis- 

 tinguished by the generic characters and by the terminal spots. Very close to 

 H. plumbana Scopoli of Europe, and H. sedatana Busck, of Colorado, of which 

 it is likely to prove the eastern race. 



Late May and June. 



Xew Hampshire to western Pennsylvania; common and generally distributed. 

 Xew York: Black Brook. Batavia, Rock City (Cattaraugus County), Crosby, 

 Ithaca, McLean. 



** With costal fold (Hemimene). 



4. H. bittana Busck. Fold large, extending a third of the length of the fore 

 wing. Fore wing golden or orange -ochre, more or less suffused with brown; the 

 base almost always paler or darker brown; the outer half, especially toward inner 

 margin, very rarely wholly brown except for a portion of the postmedial region. 

 The markings tend to be black striations on the veins in the middle of the wing 

 and curved transverse striae at the middle of the inner margin; base almost evenly 

 colored; a lead-colored postmedial band well out toward margin, sharply bent 

 opposite notch and parallel to margin below, with a short lead-gray bar beyond 

 it on costa; normally with fine broken black striae between them. Black terminal 

 dots conspicuous, at least below notch. 12-15 mm. (alpinana Fernald in part, 

 not Treitschke). 



June and July. 



Rather common and general in distribution. Xew York: Ithaca. 



5. H. simulana Clemens. Second joint 01 palpus with yellow body and brown 

 hair. Fore wing gray-brown, with a large, half-crescent-shaped, bright yellow 

 patch on middle of dorsal margin; outer haii with grayer shining bands, sepa- 

 rated by areas of yellow-tipped scales, and a few subterminal black dots as well 

 as the terminal ones. 10 mm. (alpinana^ auct., not Treitschke). 



End of May; end of August. 



Parry Sound, Ontario, to southern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and District of 

 Columbia. New York: Ithaca, West Farms. 



6. H. incanana Clemens. Blackish, varied with dull white; with an oblique white 

 dorsal patch, formed of two pairs of fused striae ending on the ochreous speculum, 

 which has three black bars and lies at the middle of the subterminal region. 



I have seen only the type. (Halonota Clemens). 

 Pennsylvania? 



iy z . PAMMENE Hiibner 



Similar to Laspeyresia. Male with R of hind wing arising widely separate from 

 Mj, running directly across into Sc, as in some Pyralids. Female as in Laspeyresia. 

 . 1. P. felicitana Heinrich (Kearfott, ms.). Purple-black, varied in median area 

 with shining purple-gray, and sometimes with some whitish scaling toward base; 

 the two outer lead-colored fasciae showing a distinct purple shade, and the speculum 

 narrow, with a few black spots rather than bars. Outer part of wing 

 sometimes shaded with brown; sometimes with a brown terminal line; and usually 

 with the ground in the speculum lighter, sometimes luteous. Inner margin to 

 beginning of speculum broadly and irregularly cream-white, sometimes with a 



