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4. Evenly reticulate 7. caryce. 



3. Ground duller brown or gray. # 



4. Pale brown, with blurred antemedial and postmedial costal patches, or 



immaculate in female 5. xanthoides. 



4. Very small; brown, with darker, rather even and sharply defined 



bands 13. diluticostana. 



4. Dull dark gray, heavily tufted, and marked with blackish. 



5. Blackish with luteous outer margin 24. semiustana. 



5. Blotched with whitish 25. exasperatana. 



5. No pale areas 23. idceusalis. 



4. Pale powdery gray. 



5. With brown inner margin {Amorbia humerosana female). 



5. No brown inner margin 6. cana. 



I. Fore wing with isolated scales or raised striatums only, sometimes practically 



smooth. 



* Front normal, the enclosing tuft of long, incurved hairs, not quite regularly 



arranged ( Sparganothis ) . 



1. S. violaceana Robinson. Fore wing with basal two-fifths light yellow, edged 

 with copper-red iridescence; the next two-fifths dull gray with purple iridescence; 

 and the apex brown with green and red iridescence, all shading into each other. 

 Hind wing dark. 20 mm. {Tortria?. (Enectra) . 



May to July. 



Quebec to Pennsylvania and British Columbia. New York: Peru, Rock City 

 (Cattaraugus County), Ithaca, Schoharie, Karner (Forbes). 



2. S. flavibasana Fernald. Base coppery, notched by a very large square fuscous 

 patch a third way out on costa; most of wing dull brown; apex triangularly 

 blackish, and also hind wing and fringe. Normally with the square costal patch 

 connected by a fuscous band to inner margin near base, crossing the coppery area. 



June. Larva on Lonicera. 

 Ottawa, Ontario; Illinois; Texas. 

 [Number 3 is vacant.] 



4. S. irrorea Robinson. Typically light straw yellow, much less brilliant than 

 the sulfureana group; with a large purple-brown patch beyond middle of inner 

 margin, a smaller one opposite it on costa, often connected to it by a curved line, 

 and costal edge and fringes dark; the patches not sharply defined. Ground often 

 dotted with purple-brown. Hind wing pale. 22 mm. 



June to early August. 



Quebec to Pennsylvania and British Columbia. New York: Otto, Ithaca. 



5. S. xanthoides Walker. Pale brown, typically reticulate and finely veined with 

 dark brown; in variety breviornatana ( lemens. with orange-tinted ground, and 

 more heavily reticulate; male with two distinct costal patches of the brown, the 

 basal one tending to become an oblique fascia across the wing, or to join a patch 

 over Cu at the middle of the wing. Female with the patches obscure. Hind wing 

 variable, dirty white to gray. Very near 8. irrorea, and perhaps intergrading with 

 it, but more buff-brown, with the patches less clean-cut on inner side when present, 

 especially the lower one. 



New Hampshire and Ottawa, Ontario, to Pennsylvania and British Columbia. 

 New York: Newcomb, Portage, Potter Swamp (Yates County), Liberty, Big 

 Indian Valley, Putnam County, New Windsor. 



6. S. cana Robinson. Pale gray, with dark shading forming more or less dis- 

 tinct quadrate patches on base, before and beyond middle of costa, and rather 

 beyond middle of inner margin; ground striated with black, the striation more 

 definitely transverse than in A. humerosana, and defining the antemedial costal, 



