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19. A. negundana Dyar. Light cream-yellow with a slight pinkish tinge, faintly 

 reticulated with ochreous; the cream pattern of A. semiferana more or less 

 traceable. 



The larva occurs with A. semiferana on Negundo and maple. 

 New Jersey; Utah; Manitoba; Florida; etc. 



20. A. georgiana Walker, a bright orange species, striate with red-brown, with 

 cream-colored areas between the striations, especially toward the costa, and dark 

 gray hind wing; has been taken at Lakehurst and Whitesbog, New Jersey, in July. 



VI. Fold reaching practically to middle of wing, broad, thick, and scaled along 



the edge. 



21. A. grisea Robinson. Light ash gray, a little powdery. A contrasting black- 

 ish streak from middle of lower side of cell to inner margin near base. A blackish 

 patch in outer part of cell, extended as a yellow-brown shade toward anal angle; 

 a contrasting blackish patch on costa at three-fourths way out and a dark brown 

 oblique subterminal lunule. Hind wing gray. Female similar, larger, the dorsal 

 markings all obsolete, or barely traceable, and with an additional short oblique 

 blackish bar from costa at two-fifths way out. 18 mm., $ 23 mm. (<$ brauniana 

 Kearfott). 



Larva on oak and Rudbeckia. 

 Maine to Missouri. 



22. A. magnoliana Fernald. Typically, fawn colored, with purple reflections on 

 disc; varying to dark purple-brown; the markings much as in A. grisea, cinnamon- 

 brown, faintly outlined with white; outer part of wing dull whitish, the oblique 

 subterminal streak smoky brown. Hind wing pale fuscous. 20 mm. 



Larva on Magnolia acuminata. 

 New York: Rock City, Ithaca. 



VII. Fold thick and broad on basal half, as in group V, but narrowly extended to 



middle of wing. 



23. A. melaleucana Walker. Costal third or more cream white, cut by the 

 blackish costal fold and a vague postmedial patch. Dorsal half of the base gray, 

 mixed with yellow -brown, followed by a very large rounded patch of mixed black - 

 brown and purple-gray, which extends nearly to, anal angle, the dark marks all 

 edged with yellow-brown. Outer margin usually cream, sometimes suffused with 

 dark gray, especially in the female. Hind wing whitish, shaded with gray. In 

 the darkest specimens, the fore wing almost all suffused with gray, leaving only 

 the middle of the costa cream color. 20 mm. 



May and June. Larva on Trillium and Polygonatum. 



Very common south to New Jersey. New York: Peru, North Elba, Batavia, 

 Vandalia, Rock City (Cattaraugus County), Portage, Ithaca, Big Indian Valley, 

 Sclrayler, New Windsor, Staten Island. 



45. PANDEMIS Hiibner 



Appearance and venation as in Archips. Palpi triangular, beak-like; thorax 

 smooth; male antennae with a few joints near base of shaft partially fused and 

 notched on inner side. 



1. P. limitana Robinson. Pale reddish brown, with some fine darker and grayer- 

 brown striations. Three fine, rather contrasting pale lines from before middle of 

 costa, running to one-third and two-thirds way out on inner margin, and to anal 

 angle; the base and the space between the two outer lines perceptibly darker. A 

 semicircular or somewhat pear-shaped subterminal costal patch, which also has a 

 fine pale outline. Hind -wing paler, with some light reddish brown striation 

 toward apex, "becoming gray toward inner margin. 20 mm. 



