638 WILLIAM T. M. FORBES 



110. AURORA Ragonot 



Similar to Peoria. Palpi as long as head and thorax; maxillary palpi small, 

 normal; fore wing with 11 veins, R, stalked, M 2 and M 3 stalked, Cu t from angle of 

 cell. Hind wing with short cell; Sc and R anastomosing, Mj stalked, M 2 and CUi 

 long-stalked, Cu 2 arising before angle of cell. 



1. A. longipalpella Ragonot. Gray, with a whitish shade toward costa; ante- 

 medial line shaded with blackish, running obliquely up and in from inner margin 

 toward costa; outer line similar; below, nearly parallel to outer margin, angled 

 toward costa; no discal points. 22 mm. 



October. 



"North America" (Ragonot), perhaps western. 



111. POUJADIA Ragonot 



Palpi oblique, third segment porrect, second with a cavity containing the small 

 maxillary plume. Front with a conical tuft. Antennae with a sinus and a small 

 scale tuft. Fore wing with R 2 free, R 3 and R B stalked, M 2 and M 3 stalked, CUj near 

 angle of cell. Hind wing with Sc free, R and M! connate, M 2 and Cu! stalked, M 3 

 lost, and Cu 2 well back from angle of cell. 



1. P. glareosella Zeller. Dull, somewhat pinkish gray, with a darker shade 

 below the whitish costa toward the base; costa diffusely white to the apex; 

 discal bar faint, darker. Hind wing pale and translucent. 18 mm. 



August. 



East River, Connecticut, to Texas. 



112. PECTINIGERIA Ragonot 

 (Cayuga Hulst; Spermatophthora, in part) 



Palpi very long, porrect; maxillary palpi small, normal; tongue weaker than 

 in Melitara; ocelli distinct. Male antennae broadly laminate below, with a longi- 

 tudinal groove in the base of the shaft above, flanked by scale ridges; basal seg- 

 ments of shaft partly fused. Fore wing (fig. 397) with 11 veins, Rj closely 

 approximate (sometimes partially fused) to stem of Ra_ 5 , M 2 and M 3 stalked, Cu 2 

 arising well before angle of cell; hind wing with M 3 lost; CUz distinct from angle 

 of cell; M 2 and CUj stalked; Sc and R closely approximate or partly fused. 



1. P. gemmatella Hulst. Pinkish, about the color of Peoria, approximatella, but 

 strigose; costal stripe paler pink, streaked with white on Sc and R, with a black- 

 ish shade below it running along lower side of R to end of cell and then to apex. 

 25 mm. 



Coast of Massachusetts and New Jersey; Illinois and west. 



113. PEORIA Ragonot 



(Eurhodope, Anerastia, in part) 



Male antennae slightly curved at base of shaft, only slightly laminate; palpi 

 porrect, long, and pointed; maxillary palpi very small. Fore wing (fig. 398) 

 with 10 veins: Rj stalked. M 2 and CUj connate, Cu 2 arising near angle of cell. 

 Hind wing with Sc and R anastomosing; M 2 and CUj long-stalked. 



1. P. approximella Walker. Fore wing dull rose to deep purple, shading into 

 brown on cell, and pale below; costa contrasting, white; the stripe covering part 

 of the cell at the base, and running to apex, shaded below with blackish. 20 mm. 

 ( hcematica Zeller, roseatella Packard ) . 



June and early July. 



