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Almost identical iu appearance with Hemimene china, but differing in the palpi, 

 the venation, and the submarginal, instead of marginal, position of the series 

 of black dots. 



June to August. Larva in pods and seeds of peas and other Leguminosse; some- 

 times injurious. 



New Jersey and western Pennsylvania to Manitoba; also reported as injurious 

 in Nova Scotia. 



13. L. dandana Kearfott. Dull dark brown, with some slight pale scaling on 

 costa, and scales outwardly showing pale tips in some lights. Two oblique bluish 

 iridescent stripes running down and out from costa toward apex, with a fine black 

 line half way between them; two purpler and duller bands before anal angle enclos- 

 ing about four black spots, to form speculum. Hind wing concolorous. 10 mm. 



End of August to September. 

 Essex County, New Jersey. 



14. L. candana Kearfott. Much like L. dandana but larger; the metallic bands 

 narrower and more broken; the black line between them obscure or lost; pale 

 scaling more distinct, but more nearly confined to speculum. Hind wing with 

 contrasting white fringe;, without dark basal line. Possibly the spring brood 

 of L. dandana. 



May. 



Western Pennsylvania; Virginia. 



15. L. tristrigana Clemens. Dark brown, sometimes varied with black; speculum 

 represented by a lead-colored bar only; about 10 or 12 closely crowded but clean- 

 cut white costal striae, leaving only base of costa free; a group of four to six 

 partially fused striae on middle of inner margin, each one curved out in a quarter 

 circle; their tips followed by some luteous scaling. Hind wing concolorous; outer 

 part of fringe contrasting whitish. 12-15 mm. 



Larva on " Tinctoria " (perhaps Baptisia tinctoria). 

 Massachusetts to Florida, Kansas, and Oregon. 



16. L. rana Kearfott. Deep brown; a strong double medial, strongly waved 

 but not distinctly broken, silvery band; and a single postmedial band, each of 

 these starting from a pair of white costal dots. Another single white subterminal 

 dot on costa, and a pair before apex. Speculum preceded by the postmedial band, 

 followed by a vertical dark-silver bar, and crossed by four black bars; the ground 

 concolorous. Hind wing dark. 14 mm. 



May. 



Black Mountains, North Carolina. 



17. L. molesta Busck. Dark fuscous, with some white-tipped scales; head dark, 

 including palpi. Fore wing with traces of the dorsal crescents showing as a 

 gathering of the white-tipped scales. Speculum strongly white-dusted, with from 

 three to six blackish dots. Hind wings blackish, with fringe whitish except at 

 apex. 10-15 mm. 



Two or three broods, breeding more or less continuously. Larva injurious to 

 stone-fruits, especially peach; boring out or gnawing the surface of growing twigs, 

 and boring in the fruit. Cocoon in any sort of shelter, that of the last brood often 

 under bark. 



Vicinity of Washington, District of Columbia; probably introduced from Japan. 



18. L. multilineana Kearfott, with the fore wing powdery gray, and the hind 

 wing white, has been taken at Jamestown, New York, in June. 



19. L. garacana Kearfott. Light gray; the ground being made up of luteous 

 mottling and dusting on a dark gray base, leaving the dark as a series of parallel 

 but unequal and broken streaks. Base slightly darker; a distinct narrow dark 

 median fascia running from middle of costa to before middle of inner margin, bent 

 at a right angle on cell, the lower part more oblique than the outer margin. A 



