LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES 507 



June and July. 



Northern New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 



5. P. aureana Busck. Pattern as in P. interruptofasciata; basal area blackish, 

 heavily overlaid with olivaceous on lower half of wing, pale in cell and dark along 

 costa; median spots dark brown, the dorsal one smaller than in P. interrupto- 

 fasciata, subterminal band more curved, narrow, and silvery; preceded by a large 

 blackish shade nearly connecting it with the median spots. 12 mm. 



June; July. 



The markings are obscure, giving the effect of a blackish species with a large 

 yellowish patch covering the base, except the costa, and a narrow yellowish outer 

 margin and fringe. 



Western Pennsylvania. 



6. P. lepidana Clemens. Deep ochre; median band a little darker, yellow -brown, 

 sharply denned; extreme base light yellow. An antemedial light transverse line 

 denning the median band, which is edged with somewhat powdery black scaling 

 toward the inner margin; a similar edging on the outer side, both widening toward 

 the costa, but narrower than in P. sublepidana. (The median band is oblique and 

 even in width.) A pale line from lower angle of cell to before anal angle, cutting 

 off a triangular spot of the ground color; this line often heavily dusted with 

 blackish; a vertical subterminal line of blackish on a cream base, lying about in 

 the middle of the yellow-brown outer region, its upper end sometimes joining the 

 costal end of the~ postmedial line. 10 mm. 



Intermediate between P. sublepidana and romonana. Described from the types 

 at Philadelphia. 

 Pennsylvania. 



7. P. sublepidana Kearfott. Fore wing bright ochre; broad antemedial and post- 

 medial dark gray bands, both pale-edged, and becoming whitish toward costa; the 

 two connected by a longitudinal band equally broad, in middle of wing, reducing 

 the ground to costal and dorsal spots. Base and terminal margin and fringe much 

 paler than median and subterminal areas. Hind wing fuscous brown. 9 mm. 



July. 



Northern New Jersey. 



8. P. biscana Kearfott. Dull tawny brown to gray-brown, often dotted witli 

 cream or reticulate on a cream ground; a strongly oblique dark gray streak to 

 basal angle, sometimes bent at right angles at middle of wing and faintly con- 

 tinued to costa; median line narrow, a little diffuse, bent at right angles at middle, 

 where it may send lines to costa at three-fourths way out and to anal angle, form- 

 ing an oblique cross; subterminal line narrow, parallel to outer margin below, 

 running to apex, or, more rarely, fading out toward costa. Hind wing paler, dirty 

 white. 15-23 mm. 



July; August. 



Maine to western Pennsylvania. New York: Peru. 



Variety giscana Kearfott is dwarfed, with almost wholly cream-colored ground 

 and markings heavy and dark gray, strongly contrasting. Intermediates are 

 relatively common. 



9. P. dorsimaculana Robinson. Luteous, with some scattered dark scales, especi- 

 ally with a dot or group of dots at lower angle of cell. A gray-brown streak 

 extending obliquely up from basal angle, denned on outer side, but on inner side 

 often gradually fading out toward base; a blackish irregular dorsal triangle on 

 inner margin two-thirds way to apex; some black subterminal scales, normally 

 grouped as a series of double dots between the veins, but rarely extending either 

 to apex or dorsal margin. Fringe concolorous, hind wing grayish white to pure 

 white. 10-16 mm. (angustana Clemens, not Hilbner). 



July to September. 



