478 WILLIAM T. M. FORBES 



Common and general in distribution. Larva on various plants, especially maple. 

 New York: Rochester, Batavia, Rock City (Cattaraugus County), Little Falls, 

 Sclienectady, Pine Island : Great River, Long Island. 



20. S. albicaudana Busck. Lemon yellow, mottled with slightly darker yellow; 

 antemedial line fine, pinkish brown, starting from a small triangle on costa a 

 third way out, and running to the inner angle of an irregular pinkish brown 

 patch on middle of inner margin. Postmedial line two-thirds way out, irregular, 

 but roughly parallel to antemedial as far as Cu-. then fading out, or curving in 

 and joining the outer end of the dorsal spot. A little brownish reticulation out- 

 wardly. Fringe pinkish brown. Hind wing cream-white, slightly shaded with 

 orange. 15-18 mm. 



July. Larva on maple. This form is doubtless the extreme maculate variety 

 of S. pettitana. 

 Notch, Pennsylvania. 



21. S. chambersana Kearfott. Dull orange, reticulate with dull red-brown, the 

 reticulations gathering into a broken fascia from before middle of costa to beyond 

 middle of outer margin,- and a vague spot at end of cell. Hind wing white in male, 

 orange in female. 20-25 mm. 



June. Larva on Ccrcis. This -form is superficially very close to 8. axtnthoides, 

 but is distinguished most easily by the lack of grayish tint on the hind wing. 

 It seems to n't rather better in group Cenopis than in typical Sparganothis. It 

 also resembles V. leshilana, but is brighter, and has a paler hind wing. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. 



22. S. testulana Zeller. Bright orange, reticulate with light brown ; with a 

 slight purplish iridescence, not at all contrasting. Indications of an oblique 

 median fascia, and a discal spot. Hind wing light orange. 10-22 mm. 



June to August. Larva on oak and walnut. 

 Missouri to New Jersey and south. 



II. Fore icing with heavy tuffs and scale ridges and a conspicuous costal fold, the 

 strongest tufts being tico in the fold and one at the end of the cell. Eyes large 

 in male (Platynota). 



* Costal fold moderate. 



23. S. idaeusalis Walker. Ash gray, irregularly shaded with blackish and dull 

 brown; the stria 1 markedly raised and black; male tending to have the outer 

 margin paler, with two or three fine striae; female rather paler on the basal half, 

 out to an oblique black stria across the middle of the wing. Hind wing fuscous. 

 12-25 mm.; female averaging much larger. (Hypena- Walker; scntama, Clemens). 



General in distribution; June to August; not rare. Larva on Solanum, golden- 

 rod, clover, and other herbs; in a folded leaf or between two leaves; cutting 

 the petiole of one leaf and feeding on it when withered and dry. 



New York : North Creek, Otto, Itnaca, McLean, Big Indian Valley, New Windsor, 

 Clove Valley, Long Island. 



24. S. semiustana Walsingham. Basal part of wing almost solid blackish, con- 

 trasting with the luteous margin, which has two black striae. Some yellow 

 brown, mixed with the blackish base. Hind wing a little browner than in 

 8. idoeusalis. 



Male only seen. Possibly a variety of 8. ida-usalis. 

 New Hampshire; North Carolina. 



25. S. exasperatana Zeller. Similar to 8. idantsalis, but with costal half and 

 outer margin of male whitish, except for a semicircular dull black patch on outer 

 half of costa. Female with basal half whitish, and middle of costa also frosted 

 with whitish; hind wing whitish in male, mouse gray in female. 12-15 mm. 



July and August. 



New Hampshire; Texas. New York: Ithaca. 



