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37. P. foxcana Kearfott. Dull fuscous brown, mottled with blackish, forming a 

 vague darker median shade and band across apex. Hind wing nearly concolorous. 

 12 mm. 



I suspect this is merely rubbed material of P. discana. 

 With P. discana. 



38. P. wiscana Kearfott. Fore wing white, striate with light gray; the base 

 of the costa darker; stria forming a dark shade along middle of inner margin. 

 A large lenticular postmedian gray, patch from just below costa to inner margin, 

 with a brown and blackish band curving around its upper end, running from 

 costa to outer margin below middle. Apex with some brownish shading. Hind 

 wing gray. 18 mm. 



Type only seen. 



Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. 



39. P. ednana Kearfott. Pale gray, sparsely reticulate witli dark gray. Basal 

 fifth of wing darker, often contrastingly blackish ; with somewhat excurved outer 

 boundary; costal half of medial area occupied by a large, rounded, darker, often 

 blackish, spot, covering end of cell. A stronger dark subterminal stria, starting 

 from a distinct patch at costa; somewhat more sharply curved than the outer 

 margin; typically reaching the inner margin well before the anal angle, but often 

 fading out. Hind wing light gray. 12 mm. 



June and July. 



Mount Washington, New Hampshire, and Ottawa, Canada, to Pennsylvania; the 

 specimens showing strong contrasts apparently commoner northward. 

 This is probably a Cnephasia near virescana. 



40. P. temerana Busck. White, strigose with gray; the base paler than the 

 median area; a mixed yellow-brown and black oblique fascia from inner margin 

 at one-third to outer part of cell, slightly diffuse in outline, and fading out above; 

 costal edge shaded with gray; outer third, beyond cell, heavily shaded with yellow 

 brown, with a darker brown fascia across apex. Hind wing light gray. 9-15 mm. 

 ( cincinnatana Kearfott ) . 



Western Pennsylvania to southern Ohio. 



41. P. leguminana Busck. White, base light gray, middle third light gray on 

 dorsal half of wing, defined with black on basal side, leaving a narrow white band 

 between it and the gray base; costal part of median area somewhat shaded with 

 gray. Outer part of wing mixed white, gray, fuscous, brown, and blackish; the 

 white clear at end of cell, and usually also subterminally beyond an irregular and 

 broken subterminal dark band, which is roughly parallel to the outer margin. 

 Fringe gray with two darker lines. Hind wing brownish gray. 10-15 mm. 



Larva in seed pods of Gleditschia. 

 Pennsylvania to Missouri and Texas. 



42. P. maiana Kearfott. Dull straw yellow; median fascia contrasting, red- 

 brown mixed with black, starting as an oblique fascia at costa, on reaching cell 

 becoming a large triangular patch, almost as broad as its height on inner margin ; 

 the outer boundary on the whole transverse, the inner one strongly oblique, turn- 

 ing a right angle at R. Outer part of wing heavily shaded with fuscous and 

 scaled with blackish, leaving a clear quadrate cream patch on costa behind the 

 median fascia, and an obscure one on dorsal margin. Fringe with two obscure 

 darker lines. Hind wing brownish gray. 8 mm. 



May. 



Northern New Jersey. 



43. P. gunniana Busck. Similar to P. maiana; ground bright ochre yellow; base 

 paler on inner margin and with a slight pink tinge beyond the median fascia; 

 median fascia light yellow-brown, the part below Cu overlaid with black, forming 

 a contrasting rounded patch. Outer part with blackish scaling heavier, and a dis- 



