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13. A. . Light gray-brown, with some faint yellow tint over paler 



portions of outer half of fore wing. Markings as in A. burgessiana and A. 

 fuscociliana, but easily distinguished by the lack of yellow or tawny. Costal 

 striae double, the first pair only moderately enlarged; fringe mixed whitish and 

 ash gray. 15 mm. (spir&ifoliana Heinrich. not Clemens; discigerana, Walker ?). 



June and early July. 



Parry Sound, Ontario, to Pennsylvania. New York : Newcomb, Rock City 

 (Cattaraugus County), Ithaca. 



The specimen now standing as type of spirceifoliana is this, but as Clemens' 

 supposed types were not labelled till long after his death I prefer to give more 

 weight to his description, which is of a yellow-marked species. 



A. lamiana Clemens appears to be Ancylis floridana Zeller. A. parmatana 

 Clemens is not an Anchylopera but the species more generally known as crispana. 



10. NORMA Heinrich 

 (Epinotia Kearfott, in part) 



Similar to Ancylis; fore wing with apex strongly produced, but not actually 

 falcate, outer margin strongly concave. Rj of fore wing arising from cell. 



Valve simple, with several long ventral spines from margin of cucullus; sacculus 

 spinose. Uncus of two widely separated, weakly chitiriized points. Socii long and 

 broad, ribbon-like. 



1. N. dietziana Kearfott. Basal third blackish, median area white; outer two- 

 fifths heavily shaded with light blue-gray. Antemedian line only a little excurved, 

 the dark base more or less strigose with pale gray. A dark gray spot in middle 

 of wing two-thirds way to apex, often connected to inner margin by .a lighter 

 gray shade; some oblique gray striae on costa; and apex shaded with dark gray, 

 with a black apical dot. A dark gray terminal line below notch, not reaching 

 anal angle. Fringe mixed gray and white. 15 mm. (Epinotia Kearfott.) 



May and June. Larva on Cratsegus. 



New Hampshire; Pennsylvania; Arizona. New York: Rock City (Cattaraugus 

 County ) . 



11. RHOPOBOTA Lederer 

 (Eudemis auct., not Hiibner) 



Similar to Ancylis; palpi large, porrect, and clavate; as in some Ancylis. 

 Thorax practically smooth. Fore wing smooth, with R 4 and R 6 long-stalked (fig. 

 263 ) . A deep notch below apex, to which M x to M 3 converge. Cu, widely separated 

 in the typical forms; convergent, but not actually running to the notch in R. 

 ilicifoliana.^ Hind wing ample, with R and Mj approximate; M s and Cu t stalked; 

 in male, with a patch of black sex-scales over costa and cell. Larva a leaf-roller; 

 with black head. 



Valve of male with a row of stout marginal spines; uncus bifurcate, weak; 

 socii large, with ends fusing in a hairy knob. 



1. R. naevana Hiibner. Dull brown with two very broad bands of lead-gray and 

 a shorter narrower one near outer margin. Costa outwardly with heavy, paired, 

 lead-gray striae, often connected with the transverse bands, especially in the 

 female, but in the male usually separated by a streak of the brown ground. 

 Almost always with a narrow antemedial gray band, 8 mm. (vaccinicma 

 Packard ) . 



Larva on cranberry and other dwarf shrubs; sometimes injurious to cranberry, 

 where it is known as the " black-head," to distinguish it from Peronea minuta. 



Common, especially in peat-bogs; south to Pennsylvania, at least; also in 

 Europe. 



