466 WILLIAM T. M. FORBES 



New Hampshire 'to New Jersey, Manitoba, and Missouri. New York: Ilion, 

 East Aurora. 



15. C. hippocastana Kearfott. Luteous, rather striate with gray, a little 

 shining. Markings brown, shaded with blackish, well contrasted, and all about 

 alike. Thorax with well-marked transverse banding; median band strongly 

 indented, rarely broken, narrow toward inner margin. Palpi of the lighter ground 

 color, with base of second segment black. 20 mm. 



June. Larva on buckeye, in May. 



Distinguished by its coarse mottling, and tendency of the markings to break 

 up, especially toward the base, as in Pluucasiophora. 



Black Mountains, North Carolina 



1(>. C. permundana Clemens. Markings normal. Ground shining gray, some- 

 what mottled with brown and luteous, the markings edged with luteous, decidedly 

 smoother looking to the naked eye than C. concinnana; the general appearance 

 dull brown. Markings rather dark brown, with a slight olivaceous or tawny tint; 

 even, occasionally, with the lower tooth a little shaded with blackish. Thorax 

 mottled, but less strikingly than in the last two species. 16 mm. 



This name has been generally used to include forms not distinctively named, and 

 even after the removal of Kearfott's recent species, is still a little heterogeneous; 

 but the differences are probably of strain rather than of species. Sciotana, hippo- 

 castana, and merrickana coxild be united with this species with very little violence. 



Larva on raspberry and Opulaster (Rosaceae) and on huckleberry. Moth in 

 July. 



Generally distributed and not rare. New York : Ithaca. 



17. C. sericorana Walsingham. Shining gray, marked with bright rusty orange, 

 the marks covering fully two-thirds of the wing surface, and finely pale-edged. 

 Base mixed gray and orange, the area reaching costa. Some black scaling in 

 lower tooth of median fascia and in subterminal and anal spots. Occasionally 

 with the blackish dominant, and orange only in the median fascia. Hind wing 

 and palpi as in C. permundana. 16 mm. 



July. This species appears to intergrade with C. permundana. 

 . New Jersey and Pennsylvania. New York: Ithaca. 



18. C. sciotana Heinrich (Kearfott ms.). Outer part of second segment of palpus 

 heavily dark-shaded. Ground dark blue-gray, nearly even, the markings narrowly 

 pale-edged. Markings dark brownish gray, not strongly contrasting, nearly normal; 

 the base as usual a mixture of the colors of ground and markings; the median 

 band deeply constricted on cell, and normally broken by extensions of the luteus 

 edging, also quite obsoiirc toward the inner margin, where the pale edging dis- 

 appears. 20 mm. 



June and July. 



Southern Ohio. 



C. subnubila Heinrich, a similar species from hazel, is not now before me. It 

 is described from New Jersey and Maryland. 



ISy?. C. melanomesa Heinrich. Light wood-brown, the ground somewhat gray 

 and with a slight, pink iridescence. Markings essentially as in G. permundana; 

 darker brown, the median fascia at the costa, the teeth, and the middle of the 

 subterminal fascia, strongly suffused with blackish; the lower tooth especially 

 prominent and almost cut off from the medial fascia. 16 mm. 



The darkening of the upper part of the median fascia is the most conspicuous 

 character for this species. It is superficially intermediate between permundana 

 and merrickana,, and according to Heinrich has genitalia of the permundana type. 



July. 



Maine to New Jersey. New York: Ithaca. 



19. C. merrickana Kearfott. Light fuscous gray, the markings hardly darker 

 than the ground. Base fuscous, less mottled than usual, the autemedial line bent 

 at a right angle over the cell, and strongly oblique to the costa and inner margin. 



