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28-2. E. fiskeana Kearfott. Ash gray, marked with darker gray-brown, some- 

 what mottled. Antemedial a broad dark shade resting on inner margin, defined 

 on outer side; postmedial oblique out and excurved, preceded by contrasting brown 

 shades over cell, and in and below fold. A blackish, diffuse, subapical patch. 

 Speculum of three very broad, dull, lead-colored patches, with some black and 

 luteous scaling between them. Fringe powdery gray, preceded by a white line 

 above, and a black line opposite speculum. 20-29 mm. 



June. 



Virginia and Illinois to South Carolina. 



29. E. grotiana Kearfott. Pure white; head yellowish; shoulders and disc of 

 thorax blackish. Markings of fore wing dark brown; a brown band along the 

 costal edge, from the base to the apex, heavier on the costal fold of the male. 

 Antemedial fascia running obliquely up from the basal angle across the fold, very 

 irregular and broken, and enclosing more or less white. Some dark brown striae 

 toward base. Postmedial fascia oblique from middle of costa to upper angle of 

 the speculum, then widening to inner margin; with its outer boundary erect 

 and inner boundary oblique inward. Speculum slightly shining, with three black 

 points in its upper part. Middle of outer margin brown, with two pairs of white 

 striae. Fringe dark, its base powdery. Hind wing gray.' 15 mm.' 



July. 



Chicago, Illinois, and west. 



30. E. gomonana Kearfott. Costal fold long. Fore wing dark gray-brown, in 

 some lights with yellow-brown iridescence; with broad, partly confluent, light 

 blue-gray, somewhat shining bands. A narrow basal band; antemedial fascia 

 excurved, broad, and defining a darker base, partly confluent with the smaller, 

 more erect medial one; postmedial band narrower, outwardly oblique, almost 

 straight, leaving a high rectangular area of the ground before it on the dorsal 

 half; a short gray bar across the apex, and a similar oblique bar at the middle of 

 the outer margin; speculum indicated by two broad gray bands, sometimes with 

 some black scales between them. 9 rnm. 



May. 



Northern New Jersey to Virginia. 



31. E. zomonana Kearfott. Light gray, slightly bluish, dusted with blackish. 

 A blackish antemedial bar on dorsal half, more distinct than in E. gomonana, with 

 a well-defined, sinuous outer boundary, and more diffuse inner and costal bound- 

 aries. Speculum paler than that of E. gomonana, composed of a group of three 

 thick silver-gray bars, separated by a Y-shaped blackish powdery mark; with heavy 

 blackish shades before and above it, the latter reaching half way to the costa. 

 Rest of wing with the black dusting gathering into vague dark gray striations, 

 leaving the apex blackish. 1015 mm. 



August. Very closely related to E. yomonana. 

 Pennsylvania to Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee. 



32. E. giganteana Riley. White, with a little gray toward base of inner mar- 

 gin and along costal edge. A large gray patch on inner margin from just beyond 

 middle to apex of wing; the more basal portion of the patch with thick raised 

 lead-colored bars; speculum finely dotted with black on a mixture of light brown 

 and white, with a region above it of mixed powdery gray and white; above this 

 a triangular region, extending up to the apex, of mixed gray and brown; fringe 

 powdery. Hind wing light fuscous, with white fringe. 25-35 mm. 



June to August. Larva in roots of Silphium. 

 North Carolina to Illinois and Missouri. 



33. E. monitorana Heinrich. Deep brown, with a blood-red overcast. Head 

 dirty white, fuscous behind antenna'; palpi fuscous. Fore wing with basal fourth 

 of the ground color, scaled and shaded with lead gray, its outer Iwundary waved 

 and farther out on inner margin; second fourth of wing broadly pale, mixed 



