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ings as the male; fringe yellow-brown. Hind wing dark mouse-gray, with pale 

 fringe. 18 mm. 



Late May. This species of this group are hopelessly confused in all collections; 

 especially the females. 



Certainly known only from Cincinnati, Ohio. 



9. T. umbristriana Kearfott. Closely similar to T. roseoterminana, but a little 

 duller and darker in both sexes. Base of fringe dusted with black and white in 

 both sexes. 16-18 mm. 



May and June. 



I believe Kearfott had the females of these two species exchanged, to judge by 

 the cotypes before me. 



Western Pennsylvania to Manitoba. 



10. T. essexana Kearfott. Male clay-color, streaked with brown, the streaks 

 emphasized and partly fused in such a way as to form a dark streak from base 

 to outer margin above speculum, roundly notched by the pale speculum. Outer 

 two-fifths of costa with an irregular pale-outlined patch, containing three well- 

 marked darker pale-outlined costal spots. A heavy brown-black terminal line 

 and a patch at anal angle before speculum, extending up to Cu t but not joining 

 the central shade. Speculum almost completely outlined with silver, and with some 

 brown streaks. The female will probably show similar markings, but not con- 

 trasting, on a deep brown ground. 20 mm. (radiatanu Kearfott, 1903, not 

 Stephens ) . 



The larva bores in stems of aster, hibernating as a larva and emerging in May. 

 New Jersey. 



11. T. awemeana Kearfott. Similar; the longitudinal streak stopping short 

 before the middle of wing; the shade before speculum not decidedly blackish, 

 extending up, though paler, to costa, before the peculiar outer costal mark, and 

 joining a dark shade between the speculum and the costal mark. The latter 

 shade, as seen under a lens, is formed of a couple of dark streaks. Speculum 

 fairly well denned, but crossed by brown streaks. Terminal band brown, not 

 blackish as in most specimens of the preceding form. Female chocolate brown, 

 decidedly strigose with yellow-brown ; base not much paler, but with the shades 

 much as in the male, less contrasting, more diffuse, and often connecting to form 

 a dark cross. 18 mm. 



May and June. 



New Ha.mpshire ; New Jersey ; Manitoba. New York : Crosby ( Yates County ) , 

 McLean, Ithaca. 



12. T. radiatana Stephens. Male clay-color, strongly striate with brown, form- 

 ing a mora or less marked darker shade from base to middle of outer margin. 

 Speculuin obsolete, marked by a few shining scales. Dark streaks heavy and 

 tending to fuse on outer margin, and especially at anal angle. Fringe also dark 

 gray. Female deep yellcw-brown, with similar markings in black-brown. 20 mm. 



End of May to June; not rare, being probably the commonest species of this 

 series. 



Generally distributed. New York: North Elba, McLean, Big Indian Valley, 

 Ramapo, Bronxville, Oyster Bay. 



13. T. striatana Clemens. Light gray; costa white from base to apex, only the 

 outer half cut by light gray lines. A white streak shaded below with blackish, 

 covering the lower edge of the cell to its end; a more or less distinct blackish 

 streak on Cu 2 , shaded above with pale. Speculum with a white spot, edged above 

 and below with black streaks. Fringe powdery gray. 15 mm. 



End of May. 



Common and generally distributed in grassland; flying up by day, about like the 

 similarly marked species of Crambus. New York: Peru. Oswego, Portage, Crosby 

 { Yates County), Karner, Nassau. Ramapo, New Windsor, Katonah. 



