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II. M 2 well separated from M 3 , and normally curved. Larvce nodule-makers with 

 an extra seta on, proleg (Petrova). 



6. R. comstockiana Fernald. Head white; thorax light powdery gray, including 

 whole of tegulse. Fore wing light orange, striate with shining light gray, with 

 dense antemedial and medial groups of strise, covering most of the surface on the 

 basal half of the wing. Fringe pale gray-brown. Hind wing very pale gray-brown, 

 often nearly white, with whitish fringe. 16-22 mm. 



Larva boring in younger twigs of Pinus rigida, forming masses of pitch. 

 Nantucket, Massachusetts, to Virginia. New York: Ithaca (Comstock), Karner 

 (Felt). 



7. R. virginiana Heinrich. Head more or less yellow; thorax pale orange, shaded 

 in front with whitish. Fore wing light rusty orange, without any yellow, and 

 heavily striate with somewhat yellowish silvery double strise; somewhat irregu- 

 larly striate, but as heavily on outer as on basal part of wing. Fringe very pale 

 brownish, practically concolorous with the striae; with an orange basal line cut 

 with white; hind wing white, shaded with pale wood-brown. 16-22 mm. {wenzeli, 

 Kearfott ms.). 



May. Larva forming a large pitch nodule on Pinus virginiana. 

 Southern New Jersey to Virginia. 



8. R. albicapitana Heinrich. Light reddish brown. Head and front of thorax 

 cream white; base of tegulse and rest of thorax orange. Fore wing with striae 

 a mixture of silver and lead-gray, leaving a larger area of the ground free at 

 end of cell; some black on costal edge, and black dusting on the strise. Fringe lead 

 gray with black basal line. Hind wing dark. 16-19 mm. 



Larva in young branches of Pinus divaricata. 



Fort William, Ontario, to Wisconsin and Saskatchewan. 



9. R. gemistrigulana Kearfott. Black, with most of surface covered with pairs 

 of pale gray strise, about 16 in all. Thorax gray with blackish collar; hind wing 

 lighter brownish gray. 18 mm. 



The larva bores in slender shoots of Pinus virginiana; the infested shoots being 

 marked in the winter by a ring of pitch. 

 North Carolina and south; in May. 



10. R. picicolana Dyar. Head and front of collar rusty ochreous; thorax and 

 abdomen light brown. Fore wing mottled and strigose in two shades of gray; 

 outer margin and fringe dark, cut with white at anal angle. Base of costa darker; 

 a round blackish spot on inner margin before anal angle and a patch along the 

 outer margin from the costa nearly to the anal angle, with regularly curved inner 

 boundary. Hind wing dark gray with white fringe. (Male not seen.) 30 mm. 

 (Eucosma Dyar). 



Larva in a pitch mass on trunk of Abies. 

 Wisconsin to Washington. 



21. PROTEOTERAS Riley 



Thorax tufted. Fore wing tufted; outer margin with a notch, and M 1 to Cu t 

 closely approximated, except in P. claypoleana, where the emargination is slight; 

 accessory cell and venation otherwise normal; costal fold absent. Hind wing with 

 a black area of sex scaling near the costal margin, except in P. claypoleana where 

 there is perhaps a slight suggestion of thicker scaling. 



Valve characteristic, with a series of long, flattened, blunt spines on the outer 

 face of the sacculus, near the margin, continuous with the usual marginal spines, 

 and very weak in P. claypoleana, where they are about as in C. ratzeburgiana. 

 Sccii short and stout, finger-like, with a long hair pencil; gnathos free, as in 

 Eucosma. 



The known larvae, all bore in petioles and twigs of Sapindacese; in fact, that is 



