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May. Larva on oak in September; with the habits of T. signatana. Pupa in 

 the ground. 



Minnesota; Manitoba. New York: Crosby (Yates County), Ithaca (Cornell, 

 bred ) , Bellport, Long Island ( Dyar ) . 



III. Outer margin evenly rounded or stright; cell CUj less than twice as wide as 

 the others. Costal fold present in male (Epinotia). 



7. E. solandriana Linnaeus. Ground varying from pale gray, sometimes coarsely 

 striate with whitish, to fuscous or wood-brown. Antemedial right-angled at middle 

 of wing; strongly oblique to costa and to inner margin; normally denned by a 

 blackish bar before it on dorsal half (obscure in many specimens but always 

 traceable) ; postmedial fascia perpendicular to this, from middle of costa to before 

 anal angle; its dorsal half often filled with blackish and the rest obscure (it is 

 regularly twice as wide at middle as above and below, but only part of the 

 enlargment will be dark-filled) ; often a dark shade in apex. Space on inner 

 margin between the two bands often filled with white, with a few dark points on 

 the inner margin; or the two bands and the space between them may be covered 

 by a black patch; or more rarely with a contrasting white ray from base almost 

 to outer margin. Outer half of costa, below, ochreous with four or five squarish 

 fuscous patches. 20 mm. 



Caterpillar a bud-worm on various trees and shrubs, especially Amentiferaj. 

 Ottawa, Ontario to British Columbia; Europe. 



8. E. similana Hiibner. Dull brown, mottled with blackish ; with some black 

 dots toward apex. A rounded white patch at middle of inner margin; speculum 

 white with a yellowish shade in middle. Fringe with a brown line, slightly cut 

 with white. 20 mm. 



September. Larva in hazel and birch. Our specimens are distinctly yellower 

 than European ones and are possibly distinct. 



New Jersey and north; Europe. New York: Pearl River. 



9. E. medioviridana Kearfott. Light dull gray, shaded with apple green; the 

 median area almost solid green, especially toward inner margin; a blackish 

 excurved basal line; antemedial line nearly erect, nearer base at costa, contrasting, 

 black; wing outwardly with broken and confused fuscous striae. Speculum obscure. 

 Line in fringe faint, gray. 16 mm. 



August and September. 



Ottawa, Canada; western Pennsylvania. 



10. E. madderana Kearfott. Ground pale mottled gray, shaded with old rose; 

 nearly covered by three large rounded patches; the basal one slightly darker 

 and yellower brown, from a third way out in costa to middle of inner margin, 

 with evenly excurved outer margin; a large transverse oval patch over end of 

 cell, reaching costa; and a contrasting bright yellow T -brown patch resting on 

 apex and outer margin, reaching almost to hind angle, with its inner boundary 

 even, defined with white, and bent at a right angle below costa. 15 mm. 



June and July. 



Ottawa, Ontario; Illinois; Manitoba. 



11. E. laracana Kearfott. Light gray, somewhat strigose; base darker, bounded 

 by an angulate antemedial line which is practically obsolete above the middle, 

 and concave on the lower half, where it is defined with blackish. A blackish 

 shade in base of fold. A blackish oblique fascia from middle of costa to middle 

 of disc, followed by a spot in the subterminal region. Costa blackish, with 

 paired white striae, outer margin gray with a dark spot at anal angle, but the 

 rest of the inner margin strigose on a white base. Line in fringe black, cut with 

 white opposite the cell, and weak below. Hind wing light gray. 15 mm. 



April. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. Types only seen. Probably the same as E. ccltisana. 



