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7. Costal fold represented by a small point ending in a tuft of 



hair-scales, folded back on wing. 

 8. Hind wing dark gray, median fascia represented by a large 



dark shade below 6. fractivittana. 



8. Hind wing light on costal half. 



9. Striation in antemedial region distinct, nearly transverse; 



fore wing light wood-brown 7. rosaceana. 



9. Striation strongly excurved or angulate on the fold, often 

 lost in the dark purplish ground color; ground not usually 



wood-brown 5. purpurana. 



7. Costal fold slender, extending nearly to middle of wing and 



fringed below with long hair-scales. 



8. Ground purple, banded contrastingly with chocolate brown. 



9. infumatana. 

 8. Ground dark olive-brown, the median fascia usually clean-cut, 



but not contrasting 8. rosana. 



8. Ground yellow-brown, with a dark gray patch in fork of Cu. 



10. fervidana. 

 7. Costal fold broad and clean-cut. 



8. Wings evenly mottled in two shades of rusty orange. 



20. georgiana. 



8. Fore wing with a dark bar from below middle of cell to basal 

 angle. 



9. Gray 21. grisea. 



9. Brown 22. magnoliana. 



C. Females (frenulum of three bristles). 



7. Ground color gray, with clean-cut markings 21. grisea. 



7. Both wings dull fuscous, marks blurred 1. conflictana. 



1. Ground brown, varying in shade. 

 8. Hind wing gray (except costa). 



9. Fore wing with an oblique dark bar below middle of cell 



to basal angle 22. magnoliana. 



9. No oblique bar running to basal angle. 



1 0. Fore wing purple with brown fasciae .... 9. infumatana. 

 10. Fore wing olivaceous, with clean-cut, but not contrasting 



fascia 8. rosana. 



10. Fore wing yellow-brown, with patch in fork of Cu. 



10. fervidana. 



10. Fore wing evenly mottled in two shades of rusty orange. 



20. georgiana. 

 8. Hind wing with dorsal half shaded with light gray. 



9. Costa nearly straight 6. fractivittana. 



9. Costa deeply sinuous 5. purpurana. 



8. Hind wing pale 2. obsoletana, 3. zapulata, 4. parallela. 



I. No costal fold. 



1. A. conflictana Walker. Dull light gray, velvety looking; all the marks, even 

 the reticulation, a little diffuse; an obscure darker shade from costa just before 

 middle, reaching inner margin two-thirds way out, with a paler patch following 

 it; less oblique than usual. Indications of a postmedial patch and curved sub- 

 terminal shade. Hind wing concolorous. 25-35 mm. 



June and July. 



Labrador to Alaska, south to New York and Utah. New York: Peru, Batavia, 

 Ithaca; Woodhaven, Long Island. 



2. A. obsoletana Walker. Fore wing in male with costa convex except near apex, 

 not sinuous; outer margin convex; very pale fawn color, striate with darker; the 



