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E. similana Clemens is evidently locally constant and may be a good species. 

 Antemedial and medial patches are fused into a thick L-shaped mark, which is 

 sharply defined all around, except on the inner side at the costa. The small spot 

 on inner margin before the anal seems to be always absent, (confluana Kearfott). 



August. This form or species occurs with the type in New Jersey, but is appar- 

 ently earlier. 



Massachusetts to District of Columbia, Illinois, and Missouri. New York : Big 

 Indian Valley. 



25. E. engelana Kearfott appears to be a distinct species of this group, but the 

 type is so rubbed as to be almost unrecognizable. Apparently it is rather narrow - 

 winged; dull gray-brown, with a dark antemedial spot on the inner margin as 

 the most contrasting mark. It is likely to prove a synonym of confluana Kearfott. 

 15 mm. 



August. 



Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 



The female "type" from New Jersey is another species. 



26. E. graduatana Walsingham (?). Fore wing dull gray; wings broader than 

 in E. dorsisignatana; an antemedial half -oval spot resting on inner margin, and 

 a large postmedial ellipse, reaching the whole width of the wing, from costa two- 

 thirds way out to near anal angle. Outer margin dark brown. All the markings 

 darker and finely defined with pale, as in E. dorsisignatana. Hind wing orange; 

 abdomen brown. 



May and June. The form here described is quite distinct frozn typical gradu- 

 atana from Texas, and may be a new species. 

 Vermont to Manitoba. 



27. E. eumaea Meyrick. Umber brown, more or less scaled with pale fuscous; 

 the type with the basal half apparently largely pale fuscous, leaving a patch of 

 brown in the fold. Costa with geminate whitish striations, becoming silvery 

 below the costal edge; one of the striae extending obliquely out almost to the 

 outer margin, about at M 15 then sharply bent and running rather parallel to outer 

 margin, to the inner margin; forming the outer line of the speculum. Inner line 

 of speculum also narrow, silvery, and contrasting, the space between the two 

 lines of the paler fuscous, crossed by strong black streaks. Fringe powdered; hind 

 wing dark gray. 16 mm. {wandana Kearfott, not vandana Kearfott). 



July. Type only seen, now in bad condition. 

 Cincinnati, Ohio. 



28. E. womonana Kearfott. Black-brown, a little duller than E. wandana; 

 vaguely mottled with areas of lighter fuscous dusting, the most definite one on 

 irregular antemedial fascia, distinctly traceable only at the inner margin. Costa 

 with paired striae outwardly; speculum of three thick lead-gray patches, enclosing 

 a narrow inverted Y-shaped portion of the ground, on which lie a couple of black 

 spots. Base of fringe finely powdered with white. 15 mm. {wandana Kearfott, 

 in part ) . 



Maryland to Ohio and Texas. 



28-1. E. palabundana Heinrich. Fuscous, powdery, and coarsely striate. Base 

 dark, with some pale striae, its outer boundary excurved, but strongly retracted 

 in the cell below the dark costal fold. Antemedial area broadly pale, typically 

 contrasting. A narrow, somewhat irregular and excurved, dark postmedial fascia, 

 its upper part extending in obliquely to costa before the middle, its lower part 

 lying along the speculum. Speculum with three broad, dull, lead-gray bars, leaving 

 a small fuscous area between them, and perceptibly pinkish in some lights. Fringe 

 powdery. 15 mm. 



July and August. Described from an atypical specimen from Ithaca, probably 

 representing a good race. 



New York to Manitoba. New York: Ithaca. 



