^^'l1itc ; costa at base ami a broad median band blackish 

 brown, liic latter with metallic scales and narrowly divitled below 

 meilian vein into rounded patches. A curved smoky subterminal 

 line. A dark terminal shade. Secondaries smoky brown out- 

 wardly. E.xpanse, 17 mm. 



Habitat^ Northern .Atlantic States. 



A. cilicoides Grotc. 



1S73 — (iuoTE, Bull. l)uff. Soc. Nat. Hist., WA. I, p. 175. 

 Chalk white ; on outer half of wing the terminal portion of 

 median space is shaded with smoky, enclosing a raised blotch of 

 black metallic scales at end of cell ; a curved smoky subterminal 

 line. Secondaries white, with a smoky shading at margin. Ex- 

 panse, 16 mm. I (irote). 



Habitat, Atlantic States. 



Cienus Hypoprepia H'ubiicr. 



1825 — IliilJNEK, Zutr. ex Schiiielt, \'oI. Ill, p. 21. 



Synopsis of Species. 



Crounci color of primaries entirely reii. 



Hind wings with broaci leatl colored jiortler .... miniata. 



This border lacking vm . subornata. 



(Jround color partly yellow, partly red. 



Lead colored border on primaries moderate, liorder of hinds wings 



narrow ......... fucosa. 



Lead color predominating, border of secondaries broad . var. plumbea. 

 Ground color entirely yellowish ...... cadaverosa. 



Fore wing nearly entirely gray, thinly scaled .... inculta. 



H. miniata A'/V/m. 



1S57 — KntliV, Richardson's Faun. Uor. .\n\er., \'()1. I\', p. 305. 



7'itttihi Harris. 



1S41 — H.\RKis, Rep. Ins. Mass., p. 241. 



7'ar. subornata A'e/////i>ei;e// Cr' Dyar. 



1893 — N"i;u.mi)K(;kn tV Dvak, Can. Fnt., \'ol. X\V, p. 124. 



Red ; antennae black. A broad stripe near costa, another 

 frt)m base to internal angle, and a short one from end of median 

 vein to outer margin, as well as the fringe, dark lead color. A 

 broad border on secondaries, occupying half the wing, also lead 

 color but sometimes absent (var. subornata). Abdomen frequently 

 more or less lead color centrally. Expanse, 30-40 mm. 



Habitat, North Atlantic States westw^ard. 



