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59. No such shade 60. 



GO. Ground color rusty orange 61. 



60. Ground color not orange . . 62. 



61. With a broad, evenly colored apical area 10. Epinotia madderana. 



61. With transverse pairs of gray stria;, as in Evetria. ..33. Eucosma monitorana. 



62. With a white basal dash shaded below with black 35. Eucosma bilineana. 



62. No black and white basal dash 63. 



63. Ground largely whitish, or strigose with light blue-gray; the base darker.. 64. 



63. Not dominantly white or heavily striated with white 66. 



64. Fringe dark on upper half of wing or toward apex only; hind wing of male 



mostly white 16. Epiblema illotana. 



64. Fringe and hind wing darker 65. 



65. Medial area nearly pure white; hind wing paler; fringe of fore wing almost 



solid dark 17. Epiblema desertana. 



65. Medial area with two or three strong gray striae; fringe white on lower 

 third; hind wing mouse gray in both sexes 15. Epiblema obfuscana. 



65. Median area with a white fascia in basal portion; hind wing dark brown. 



23. Epinotia heucherana. 



66. Fringe with a continuous black basal line 67. 



66. Fringe usually powdery gray toward base, without black basal line 69. 



67. Wings broader, ground deep brown; contrasting with the black line in the 



fringe 1 . Epinotia nanana. 



67. Yellow brown with ochreous fasciae 34. Eucosma tocullionana. 



67. Wings narrower; ground gray, not contrasting with the line in the fringe. . . .68. 



68. Dark smoky gray 14. Epinotia zandana. 



68. Light gray 11. Epinotia laracana. 



69. With an oblique lead-colored line running toward anal angle, converging with 



a similar subterminal one 16. Eucosma sombreana. 



69. No oblique lead-colored line 70. 



70. Ground blue-gray under a lens, appearing usually as two paired bands and 



an odd one '. *. . 30. Eucosma gomonana. 



70. Ground not blue-gray 71. 



71. Apical third of costa, and outer margin to anal angle contrasting, pale, with 



an even, straight, dark-gray subterminal line Hystrichophora kokana. 



71. No even dark subterminal line 72. 



72. Brownish, flecked with little groups of white-tipped scales; expanse about 



25 mm 13. Eucosma nandana. 



72. Much smaller, not hoary-flecked 73. 



73. Ash-gray, nearly evenly mottled 68. 



73. Whitish, with contrasting blackish transverse shades trisecting the wing. . . .74. 



74. Ground flecked with black . . . , 13. Epinotia yandana. 



74. Ground nearly even pale gray to blackish 12. Epinotia vertumnana. 



1. E. circulana Hiibner. Fore wing light brown on basal half, light ochre on 

 outer. With some small silver streaks and spots in middle of wing and near apex; 

 a silver streak from costa at three -fourths of the way out to outer margin, curving 

 in its outer part so as to leave a clear yellow semicircle above the speculum. 

 Speculum of two horizontal rows of alternate black and silver spots, the upper 

 row normally containing five or six spots and the lower reduced. Fringe powdery 

 gray. 15 mm. 



North Carolina and Louisiana to Florida. New York: Staten Island (?) 

 This species presumably occurs northward, but northern records, so far as I 



have seen the specimens recently, are based on other species of the group. The 



type is said to have come from Pennsylvania. 



2. E. scintillana Clemens. Whitish, heavily dusted with brown, on basal half; 

 light yellow on outer half. Base of inner margin less powdery than the general 

 surface. A streak without the powdering, on the cell from base to middle of 



