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subterminal ones not anastomosing as in 0. intermistana, but leaving a clear 

 postmedial band of the ground. A white spot at end of cell, partly edged with 

 blackish. Fringe checkered black and white. 18 mm. 



The larva is said to feed on pine or Vaccinium. 



Europe; also reported from Arctic America. 



11. 0. abietana Fernald. Fuscous brown, marked with shining gray. A slight 

 gray basal facia; a broad antemedial fascia, starting from two pairs of costal 

 striae. A postmedial fascia, also starting from two pairs of striae, with a small 

 dark dot between them, its outer side somewhat wavy and its inner side with two 

 deep notches (above and below the cell), into which run teeth from the brown 

 median area. (Two pairs of costal striae toward the apex, from which runs a bfoken 

 irregular subterminal fascia. Hind wing dark. 10 mm. (picece Busck). 



Larva on spruce. 



Maine to the Western States; generally distributed northward. New York: 

 Ithaca, Woodmere, Long Island. 



12. 0. deceptana Kearfott. Finely dusted with white, gray, and black, the 

 gray scales white-tipped; no yellow or other colors. Head and thorax concolorous. 

 Fore wing with costa arched, transversely strigose; base slightly darker, with 

 excurved irregular outer boundary; median fascia bluntly two-toothed, barely 

 traceable; the notch between the teeth white-filled, but not forming the definite 

 spot of the intermistana-grouip. A slight narrow fascia across apex. Hind wing 

 duller; brownish gray. 18 mm. 



June to July. 



Peru, New York; Dickinson, Michigan, and westward. 



13. 0. removana Kearfott. Ash gray; each scale finely pale-tipped as seen 

 under a lens; superficially similar to 0. deceptana, but actual ground color much 

 paler, with faint transverse bands; an oblique band at a fourth way out and one 

 at middle of costa, and a distincter subterminal bar, sometimes defined with 

 distinct black striae. Hind wing a little browner. 17-21 mm. 



When most distinct, the darker gray shows the Exartema pattern, with sub- 

 terminal and anal patches, and with median band rather narrow and deeply 

 dentate on the outer side, but all in shades of ash gray. 



New Jersey to Manitoba. 



. 14. 0. instrutana Clemens. Dark brown mixed with blackish, heavily overscaled 

 with rusty ochre; antemedial fascia of a group of broken luteous striae; post- 

 medial band a double, lead-gray stria, strongly and broadly curved out over mid- 

 dle of wing, and a little concave toward inner margin. Discal dot pale, well 

 within the postmedial bands. Three pairs of white striae on costa outwardly; an 

 oblique lead-gray line across apex and a confused patch at anal angle. Hind 

 wing dark. 15 mm. 



Common and generally distributed. Larva reported on clover and buckeye. 

 Much like species of Cymolomia, but distinguished ,by the browner color with 

 yellowish antemedial line and discal dot, and continuous gray postmedial band. 

 Moth in August. 



New York: Peru, Saranac Inn, Newport, Fen tons (Lewis County), Batavia, 

 Otto, Ithaca, Schenectady, Rhinebeck, New Windsor. 



15. 0. aspasiana McDunnough. Similar to 0. instrutana. Dark olivaceous 

 brown, with a double whitish antemedial fascia, and some whitish scaling at base. 

 Medial dark area twice as wide at middle as at costa and inner margin, its 

 outer boundary strongly bowed out at the middle, and scaled there with black. 

 Snbapical band extending from costa to outer margin, and containing a leaden- 

 colored patch opposite the cell; anal spot long, narrow, triangular, brown. Apex 

 also brown, cut off by a silvery streak. 11 mm. (Not seen.) 



Early July. 

 Ottawa, Ontario. 



16. 0. coruscana Clemens. Fore wing ochre yellow, marked with bands and 



