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margin, except at apex and lower end, by a narrow strip of the ground color. 

 20 mm. 



June and July. 



Montclair, New Jersey, to Plummer's Island, Maryland; west to Illinois. 



9. E. tripartitana Zeller. Dark purple gray, mottled with blackish; the dis- 

 tincter black spots more or less clearly edged with brown. Median area white 

 except for the costal fold of the male, which extends two-thirds way to the apex. 

 Antemedial line erect, a little wavy, and rather nearer base on inner margin; 

 outer boundary of median white area oblique and irregularly excurved, nearer 

 base on costa. Speculum a vague blue-gray area, preceded by black dots in the 

 blue-gray ground. 20 mm. 



August. Larva in a gall on Rudbeckia laoiniata and on Solidago. 

 Southern New York to Texas and Florida. 



10. E. walsinghami Kearfott. Eyes rather small. Ground a confused mixture 

 of deep brown, purplish, and black scales, the specular region rather tending to 

 lead-color, and sometimes with light brown striae toward apex. Middle of inner 

 margin with a large semi-elliptical white patch, formed of four partly fused striae. 

 Fringe of fore wing coal black, with the usual black basal line not contrasting. 

 15 mm. 



May. 



Hemlock Falls, New Jersey (type); Oak Station, Pennsylvania; Alabama. New 

 York: Rock City (Cattaraugus County). 



11. E. dorsisuffusana Kearfott. Black, somewhat shaded with dark gray. 

 Dorsal half of wing white from a third way out, contrasting; the boundary some- 

 what irregular and indented above at two-thirds, where the white area is divided 

 by a group of black dots; a few black dots on middle of inner margin; outer part 

 of costa brown, with paired white striae; upper half of outer margin narrowly 

 brown, cut with white at M w where the brown is preceded by a black dot; fringe 

 gray above, whitish at anal angle. 20 mm. 



In the male type, the black dots in the white area are almost lost. 

 June and July. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio. 



12. E. carolinana Walsingham. Base and costa gray, with a slight blue tint, 

 striated with blackish; medial area below middle of cell white or pale; outer part 

 a confused mixture of blue-gray and white, with a group of black dots at apex, 

 and two irregular vertical rows before the region of the speculum, finely defined 

 with white. Fringe slightly powdery fuscous gray, without basal line. Hind 

 wing mouse gray. 16-25 mm. 



July and August. 



Northern New Jersey to western Pennsylvania; south to North Carolina. New 

 York : Ithaca. 



13. E. scudderiana Clemens. Base dark purple-gray and blackish, the area 

 darker and less extensive than in illotana, with sharply defined somewhat irregular 

 outer boundary about a quarter way out; median area white, with a few gray 

 stria, light gray on costa; postmedial area mixed dull gray and light blue-gray, 

 with some white; the speculum confused and slightly more white; preceded ^by a 

 few black dots, one of them good-sized, and with a couple of fine black dots in its 

 upper portion; a brownish area between speculum and apex. Fringe white toward 

 anal angle only. Hind wing mouse gray. 20 mm. 



Rather common. The larva bores in the crown or forms a slight fusiform gall 

 in goldenrod; emerging the following June. 



Generally distributed. New York: Lewiston, Buffalo, Ithaca, Albany, New 

 Windsor. 



14. E. kennebecana Kearfott. Fore wing white, shading into gray along costa; 

 base dark gray, strigose with black; the antemedial line moderately angulate in 



