LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES 483 



Several ill-defined broods, from June on; hibernating as imagoes in the form 

 Cinderella. Larva with yellow head; a leaf roller in habits, injurious to cran- 

 berry; also on apple. 



Quebec to New Jersey, and perhaps generally distributed. New York: McLean. 



2. P. angusana Fernald. Varying from light yellow to tawny brown, with inner 

 margin below A always grayish, and in dark specimens with other gray shades 

 below the stripe. Stripe darker than ground, red-brown to blackish, running from 

 middle of base to apex; more or less edged below, and often above, with slightly 

 frayed and irregular white lines. 13-15 mm. 



End of July to September. 



Meach Lake, and Ottawa, Quebec; Massachusetts; New Jersey. New York: 

 Ithaca. 



3. P. fishiana Fernald. Dull gray, more or less distinctly dotted with brown. 

 Two parallel fine lines from two-fifths and three-fifths way out on costa toward 

 anal angle, each defined with slightly paler before 'and with a brown shade beyond. 

 Hind wing whitish, more distinctly dotted with dark. 25 mm. 



Montreal, Quebec; Franconia, New Hampshire; Maine. 



II. Fore wing with more or less raised scale tufts; the wing rounded or with 

 subfalcate membrane only; the costa smooth-scaled, or with rough bristling 

 scales, tending to form tufts before and beyond middle, especially in female 

 ( Acleris ) 



4. P. subnivana Walker. White, sometimes tinted with cream, especially in 

 female; a triangular dark patch resting on middle half of costa, tending to be 

 broken up into three spots in very lightly marked specimens, but usually solid 

 or with a small central pale spot; a yellow shade extending from it to middle 

 of inner margin, at least in female. Hind wing gray, markedly darker than 

 ground of fore wing. Costa of female concave and strongly rough-scaled both 

 before and beyond the concavity. 13-15 mm. (peculiana Zeller, deflectana Robin- 

 son). In "a variety the lower two-thirds of the wing is regularly spotted with 

 brown between the veins. 



The tufts are moderate but well marked; the costal notch of the female is the 

 only definite difference between this species and the next. Larva on Vernonia 

 ( Cacalia ) . 



Common and generally distributed in late fall and early spring. 



New York: Wilmington, Ithaca, Albany. 



5. P. cervinana Fernald. Similar, the ground pinkish cream to bright buff- 

 brown, or buff-brown reticulate with white, the dark color covering a larger area 

 than in spotted forms of P. subnivana. Hind wing paler, whitish, almost always 

 paler than ground of fore wing. Wing form similar in the two sexes, without 

 costal concavity or decided rough scaling; costal patch tending strongly to be 

 weak below or to break into spots. 13-15 mm. 



General all season; wintering as adult. 



6. P. heindeliana Fernald. Ash gray, slightly shaded with brown below the tri- 

 angular costal patch, which extends from a third to four-fifths way out on costa, 

 and is spotted with black tufts (galUcolana Clemens). 



Larva in " pine-cone " gall on willow. 

 Illinois to Manitoba. New York: Ithaca (?) 



7. P. trisignana Robinson. White, irregularly dusted with gray, appearing pale 

 gray, with the costal triangle often indicated by three partly confluent light gray 

 spots. Fore wing with antemedial tufts on cell and in fold, and with rough scal- 

 ing which tends to form a very irregular and broken postmedial band. A scale 

 ridge running obliquely almost across the wing from before middle of costa to 

 beyond middle of inner margin, narrowly interrupted on the veins, but not offset 

 on Cu, or Cu 2 . 15-20 mm. 



