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fourth segment. It certainly occurs north to the coast of North Carolina. 

 (H. 48:2.) 



34. SAMEODES Snellen 

 (Pyrausta, in part) 



Palpi nearly as in Pyrausta with very little loose hair, the third joint practically 

 terminal. Fore wing with R 5 curved and more or less approximate to R 3+4 , apex 

 marked. Markings as in Samea, but without the tuft on hase of Cu of hind 

 wing. 



1. S. adipaloides Grote. Abdomen brown, in the female with some yellow scales 

 on the base and white ones at the apex of the segments, the first segment often 

 yellow. Male without a dorsal tuft. Straw yellow. Costa gray-brown above 

 R; outer margin broadly gray -brown, with sharp inner boundary two-thirds way 

 in to the postmedial line and roughly parallel to it; orbicular, claviform, and 

 reniform spots represented by large gray -brown patches, the first, two broadly 

 in contact, antemedial line fine, gray-brown, excurved, running shortly before 

 the orbicular and claviform; postmedial deeply sinuate below cell, extending in 

 along Cu 2 to below end of cell; scalloped on veins; the veins more or less defined 

 with brown; hind wing similar, without brown patches in disc; postmedial line 

 confluent with border at Cu 2 . 20 mm. 



July to September. 



Generally distributed. New York: vicinity of Buffalo, McLean Bogs, Big Indian 

 Valley, Schenectady, Rhinebeck. 



I have seen S. elealis Walker from North Carolina and south (adipaloides 

 Barnes and McDunnough, but not of Grote's original figure and description ) . 

 The costa is mostly yellow; the male has a black dorsal tuft on the abdomen, 

 which is more largely yellow. 



35. STENOPHYES Lederer 

 (Crocidophora, in part) 



Palpi trapezoidal, closely and a little roughly scaled, with third segment ter- 

 minal; maxillary palpi moderate; front oblique. Fore wing with R 5 approxi- 

 mate to R 3+4 ; costa practically straight; fore wing more than twice as long as 

 wide, much more in male, with apex marked; outer margin strongly oblique and 

 nearly as long as inner; hind wing much longer to apex than to anal angle; 

 abdomen long and conical. Wing translucent. Markings as in Sameodes. 



1. S. huronalis Guenee. Yellowish white; lines fine, light brown; orbicular, 

 claviform, and reniform large, squarish orange -ochre patches, edged with brown; 

 a yellow 'basal shade; antemedial line erect, wavy, nearly meeting lower angle 

 of claviform; postmedial oblique, but less so than outer margin, offset inward 

 on Cu 2 , and then oblique to inner margin. Outer margin light brown, sending 

 an extension to the postmedial line opposite the cell and at the anal angle. Hind 

 wing with two broken gray transverse lines, the outer meeting margin near Cu 2 ; 

 outer margin broadly gray at apex, tapering off to anal angle. Male 25 mm; 

 female 20 mm. (serinalis Walker). 



September and October. 



Described from Canada but only seen from North Carolina and southward. 



36. NOMOPHILA Hiibner 



Palpi as in Pyrausta, rather closely scaled (fig. 338); fore wing over 2% times 

 as long as wide ( fig. 323 ) ; the outer margin less than half as long as the 

 inner; hind wing ample, nearly twice as wide. 



1. N. noctuella Schiffermuller. Fore wing dull gray, orbicular, reniform, and 



