572 WILLIAM T. M. FORBES 



End of May to August. 



New York to Illinois and Florida. New York: Ramapo, Brewster's (Grote). 



28. P. subsequalis Guenee. Typical female: fore wing ranging from ochre yellow 

 to dull orange; antemedial line wavy; postmedial sinuous, and widened into a series 

 of black wedges; both lines rather thick and somewhat irregular; large black 

 orbicular and reniform spots; subterminal a broad shade, narrowed or interrupted 

 in middle; often with a blurred blackish median line, or the median area somewhat 

 suffused with blackish. Hind wing bright orange, with a large black discal dot; 

 two outer black bands parallel to outer margin, and some longitudinal streaks on 

 basal half of wing along Cu and the anals. Fringes black. Typical male: fore 

 wing suffused in two shades of fuscous, and scaled with dull red; with traces of the 

 markings of the female; the hind wing black, with short postmedial and terminal 

 orange lines only. 20 mm. (insequalis Guenee.) 



Larva ou thistle. Moth in June and late July. 



Northern New York to Illinois and south. New York: Black Brook (male). 



The northern variety borealis Packard, is a little smaller than the female of the 

 preceding form, with the same markings: fore wing light ochreous and fuscous; 

 hind wing yellow, with the basal half almost solidly fuscous, obscuring the discal 

 dot; outer markings rather light. Nova Scotia to British Columbia. 



Specimens from Massachusetts, New York, etc., are generally intermediate, with 

 the sexes similar, but with the base of the hind wing orange with gray streaks as 

 in subsequalis. These are var. madetisalis Walker (efficitalis Walker.) (H 47:41.) 



April to July. 



Generally distributed and not rare locally. New York : Black Brook, Saranac 

 Lake, Ithaca, Big Indian Valley, Ilion, Schuyler, Nassau, Rhinebeck, New Windsor, 

 Suffern, New York City; Tottenville, Staten Island. 



29. P. funebris Strom. Black. Tegulse yellow. Two large rounded pure white 

 spots on each wing. Fore wing often with a third small spot below the costa 

 between the two large ones; abdomen finely striped with white. 20 mm. (octo- 

 maculata Linnaeus.) (H 47:50.) 



June and July. Larva light yellow -green, with yellowish head; living on the 

 under side of the basal leaves of Solidago. 



Generally distributed northward, south to New Jersey at least; Eurasia. New 

 York: Common and generally distributed. 



30. P. niveicilialis Grote. Dark, smoky gray, nearly black, with a pale postmedial 

 shade, usually distinct only near the costa; fringe white, contrasting. Hind wing 

 black, with white fringe. 22 mm. 



May and June; August. 



Canada to northern New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. New York : Crosby 

 (Yates County), Ithaca, Albany, Poughkeepsie, and New Windsor. 



31. P. inquinatalis Zeller. Palpi moderate., tibial spurs normal. Pale pow- 

 dery gray, shaded heavily with dark gray at base and outer margin. Antemedial 

 line hardly one-fourth way out, slightly outwardly oblique and dentate; post- 

 medial line blackish, finely dentate, and slightly excurved from costa to Cu then 

 in to below end of cell, where it forms' a dark bar, and out again on A; below 

 A, about in line with its position above, two-toothed. A pale shade between the 

 postmedial line and the dark border. Costa more or less gray shaded; orbicular 

 a gray patch, reniform kidney shaped, and dark gray, separated from orbicular 

 by its width. Hind wing paler toward base, with a waved weak postmedial 

 line; discal bar and dot at lower angle of cell, and dark border. 20 mm. 

 (glaciaUs Packard; Phlyotoenia, auct.) 



May to July. Male unknown to me. 

 Ottawa, Ontario; Labrador; Europe. 



