Lepidoptera op New York and Neighboring States 503 



3. P. vitellinana Zeller. Lemon yellow, with transverse silver striae or series 

 of dots; ground sometimes shaded with red-brown, or with the silver markings 

 outlining red-brown bands; when most developed, with a brown oblique bar to 

 the basal angle, one at right angles to the first from the middle of the costa 

 to the inner margin at two -thirds way to the apex, and a couple of mixed brown 

 and silver streaks across the apex. Hind wing dark gray, contrasting. 10-14 mm. 



June. Sometimes very common locally. 



New York to Illinois and north. New York: Peru, Black Brook (Clinton 

 County ) . 



3. COMMOPHILA Hiibner 



(Phtheochroa, in part) 



Similar to Hysterosia, but wings narrower, heavily scale-tufted; R^ running to 

 costa. No costal fold (normally present in Hysterosia). 



1. C. contrastana Kearfott. M 3 and Cu t of hind wing connate. Head and fore 

 wing white; thorax and base and dorsal half of fore wing two-thirds way to 

 apex, contrasting, black, mottled with blue -gray; with a couple of black dotg. 

 Hind wing pale brown, with white fringe. 20 mm. 



End of May to June. 



Connecticut; western Pennsylvania. 



2. C. bana Kearfott. M 3 and Cu^ separate. Dark wood-brown, considerably 

 scaled with black; the scaling as a whole rough, with larger rounded, tufts at end 

 of cell and before and beyond middle of A. Tufts more shining, slightly pinkish, 

 and in most lights paler than the ground color. Hind wing a little duller and 

 paler, with pale fringe. 13 mm. (Phalonia Kearfott). 



Chicago, Illinois; in September. (The type has the date "June" corrected to 

 " September," the description says " June." ) Woods Hole, Massachusetts ; in 

 August. 



4. PHALONIA Hiibner 



(Gonchylis Treitschke; with Dapsilia, Eupwcilia, etc.) 



Palpi beaklike but moderate, shorter than in Hysterosia and Commophila. Fore 

 wing rounded, rather narrow, with all veins separate and R 5 running to costa or 

 apex; hind wing with R and Mj stalked, M 3 and CUj well separated. 



The species of Phalonia are often strongly marked in contrasting colors, some- 

 times with silver, and are among the most brilliant of the Tortricids; but a few 

 are dull-colored. The genus is already large, but probably a good many species 

 are yet to be discovered, as in the other larger boring genera. 



Phalonia listerana Kearfott is a Cnephasia, P. vitellinana is a Pharmacis. 



Key to the species 



1. Fore wing with a sharply defined, nearly terminal darker band, more or 

 less distinctly pale-edged; the median fascia rarely silver-edged, and in that 

 case broken into spots. 

 2. Yellow, with four red bands; the two outer ones joining toward the inner 



margin 1. rutilana. 



2. Without red bands. 



3. Base solid dark, its outer boundary even, nearly straight, and only a little 

 inwardly oblique to inner margin 21. louisiana. 



