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thirds way out, forming short series. Hind wing light orange. 20-28 mm. (Homona 

 Meyrick. ) 



June. Larva social, on horse-chestnut in early June; also reported from hickory, 

 walnut, snowherry, and Vernonia. 



Pennsylvania; North Carolina; Washington. 



13. A. striana Fernald. Umher-brown, with a broad luteous ray over cell from 

 base to apex; a similar streak below A to three- fourths way out on inner margin; 

 and broad, partly confluent streak on veins toward outer margin; blacki'shT streaks 

 between veins. Hind wing gray. 25 mm. 



Rare. 



Quebec; Ontario; New Hampshire; Manitoba. 



IV. Fold not reaching middle of costa; rather thick, and, on the outer half, fringed 



heavily with hair-scales. 



14. A. persicana Fitch. Basal half of fore wing orange-ochre; outer half bright 

 brown, with a silver-white costal triangle, concave on the outer side. Margin 

 sharply defined, contrasting pale yellow with a couple of brown striae. 20 mm. 

 (blandana Clemens). 



June. Larva on various plants. 



Maine to Manitoba; a race with a smaller silver spot, in British Columbia. 

 New York: Peru, North Elba, Fentons (Lewis County), Newport, Rock City 

 (Cattaraugus County), Ithaca, Liberty, DeBruce, Big Indian Valley, Ballston, 

 Schenectady. 



V. Fold well formed, but only one-fifth of the length of the wing, rough-scaled on 



the edge. 



15. A. dissitana Grote. White, with irregular angular black patches, the two 

 largest forming a fascia from costa to before anal angle, interrupted over the 

 cell. 20-25 mm. 



July. Apparently rare. Larva probably on conifers. 



Maine to Ohio. New York: Uphill Brook, Mt. Marcy, Ilion, Buffalo, James- 

 town, Ithaca. 



16. A. argyrospila Walker. Irregularly mottled with a mixture of cream, straw 

 yellow, red-brown, and often black-brown, scales, leaving a series of cream-colored 

 quadrate patches on costa, the one just beyond the middle being the largest and 

 most constant. Hind wing mouse gray. 20 mm. (furvana Robinson, signatana 

 Packard). (H 48:34.) 



Larva a general feeder, and often injurious to apples, being the commonest of 

 the many apple leaf-rollers. Moth in June, rarely with a few stragglers in July. 

 Very common and generally distributed. New York: Common and general. 



17. A. mortuana Kearfott. Brownish gray, irregularly mottled with cream and 

 darker gray or blackish; with two contrasting quadrate cream- white spots on 

 middle of costa, and sometimes considerable cream striation on outer margin. 

 18 mm. 



June. Possibly a variety of A. argyrospila, which is markedly variable. 

 Western Pennsylvania to Wisconsin. New York: Ithaca. 



18. A. semiferana Walker. Light Indian red, more or less shaded with gray; 

 somewhat mottled with straw yellow, especially on basal fourth; costa with straw- 

 yellow patches at one-fourth way out at middle, and before apex, the middle one 

 neat and triangular, and the other two irregular and broken up into spots. Female 

 generally paler. Very pale specimens shading into cream color on the inner margin 

 and apparently intergrading with A. negundana. Hind wing concolorous. 20 mm. 



Common, the larva a general feeder, but most common on maple and Negundo. 

 Generally distributed. New York : Newport, Ithaca, Albany. 



