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Larva on hickory and blue beech; similar to C. biguttata, but with a yellow 

 line across mesothorax. 



Florida specimens belong to the variety parallela. Moth in July. 



Gaspe, Quebec, to Illinois and Florida. New York: Batavia, Lewiston, Buffalo, 

 Ithaca, Big Indian Valley, Poughkeepsie, New Windsor, New York City, Staten 

 Island, Long Island. 



13. TORTRICIDIA Packard 

 (Heterogenea, in part, etc.) 



Palpi obliquely upturned to well beyond middle of front; fore wing with outer 

 margin strongly oblique, apex rounded, costa more arched, and inner margin 

 less sinuous than in Cochlidion. Larva with depressed spaces large and sharp; 

 skin granulated but not spinulated; marked with red dorsally. In first stage, 

 with setae i and ii equal. 



Kroncea minuta probably belongs to this genus or to Heterogenea. 



1. T. fiskeana Dyar. Fore wing tawny yellow, with a straight, oblique median 

 line, sharply defined on its inner side, and a, strongly curved one across the apex, 

 the space between them sometimes more or less filled with brown. Hind wing 

 nearly black. 14-15 mm. 



This form is perhaps a variety of minuta. The lines are less diffuse than in 

 Heterogenea shurtleffi. 



Durham, New Hampshire; Iowa. 



2. T. flexuosa Grote. Similar to T. fiskeana, both wings pale yellow, the lines 

 not suffused. 15-25 mm. 



In variety csesonia Grote (H 47:12) the medial area is suffused with brown. 

 Larva green with yellow subdorsal lines; the red dorsal markings, when extended 

 laterally in cross form, not reaching more than halfway to the lateral margins; 

 sometimes reduced to one or two spots. 



Quebec to New Jersey and western Pennsylvania. New York: Ithaca, De Bruce, 

 Big Indian Valley, Onteora Mountain, Hi on, Sharon Springs, Rhinebeck, Pough- 

 keepsie, Windsor, Bronx Park, New York City, Long Island. 



The dark form cassonia Grote, is known from Big Indian Valley, Coeymans, and 

 Poughkeepsie. 



3. T. pallida Herrich-Schseffer. Fore wing light pinkish brown; hind wing straw 

 yellow, typically immaculate, in var. flavula Herrich-Schseffer showing traces of 

 lines. 10-18 mm. 



The larva occurs on willow oak, and other shrubs. It is green, with the usual 

 two subdorsal yellow lines, with a large, red, cross -shaped mark extending from 

 end to end of the body, and from side to side at the middle, the anterior arm 

 of the cross narrow, but the posterior widening into a patch. The moth flies 

 in July. 



Southern Maine to southern New York; probably more widespread but over- 

 looked. New York: Plattsburg, Keene Valley, Ithaca, Staten Island; Brooklyn, 

 and Bellport, Long Island. 



4. T. testacea Packard. Dull, light brown with a broad, dark, median shade, 

 darkest along the veins. Hind wings paler. 15 mm. (H 47:11.) 



Larva with the dorsal red patch as long and wide as the body, but symmetrical 

 from front to back; feeding on oak, birch, wild cherry, and so forth. 



Nova Scotia to northern New Jersey and Hlinois. New York: Plattsburg, 

 Saranac Lake, Red Lake, Ithaca, McLean, Big Indian Valley, Staten Island; 

 Merrick, Long Island. 



5. T? (Kronjea) minuta. Fore wings straw yellow, hind wings blackish, immacu- 

 late 10 mm. 



