508 William T. M. Forbes 



Xova Scotia; Quebec; Pennsylvania; and probably general. Xew York: Ithaca, 

 Trenton Falls. 



P. fernaldana Walsingham. Ground light yellow, including base of wings; mark- 

 ings yellow-brown; an angulate antemedial fascia; an oblique bar to middle of 

 costa, not joining a large triangular patch on middle of inner margin; and con- 

 fused outer markings, much as in P. dorsimaculana, but typically lighter. 17 mm. 

 Described from the Pacific Coast and not certainly known from the East. Eastern 

 records should probably be credited to P. promptana. 



10. P. promptana Robinson. Pale cream, the markings darker; straw yellow 

 with some black scales but not contrasting. Basal mark as in P. dorsimaculana, 

 normally extending up from very close to base of wing on inner margin, or even 

 touching base. Median triangle more rounded and not contrasting, with very few 

 black scales; a well-marked oblique fascia from middle of costa two-thirds way to 

 anal angle, extending down on the outer side of the dorsal triangle; a continuous 

 subterminal band from near the apex almost to the inner margin, with consider- 

 able black scaling, which sometimes indicates the double dots of the preceding 

 species. Hind wing nearly white. 15 mm. (amgustama auct., not Clemens; dorsi- 

 maculana auct., in part). 



June to August. 



Canada to Texas. Xew York: Ithaca. 



11. P. obliquana Kearfott. Light yellow, heavily shaded with yellow-brown, 

 leaving well-defined pale edges to the markings, and a pale yellow fringe. Mark- 

 ings yellow-brown; an oblique streak in fold extending a third way to apex, ending 

 in a point on Cu, strongly pale-edged; a large median dorsal triangle, a broad 

 oblique fascia extending down from middle of costa. ending just beyond the tip 

 of the dorsal triangle, more or less broken by pale shades on the veins. A costal 

 triangle three-fourths way to apex and a yellow terminal band, finely edged with 

 golden yellow; base of inner margin shaded with yellow-brown, without golden 

 edging. Hind wing brownish white. 20-22 mm. 



The fore wing is very acute, the costa and outer margin making an angle of 

 less than 60 degrees, even in the male. 



Florida; northern distribution uncertain, but described from Xorth Carolina and 

 Manitoba. I have seen a variety from Virginia in early June. 



12. P. angulatana Robinson. Light clay -color, more or less dusted with gray-, 

 or, more rarely, with red-brown; markings grayish or reddish brown, nearly 

 concolorous with the dusting. Basal area dark, its outer boundary bent at nearly 

 a right angle at middle of wing, and running to inner margin well beyond basal 

 angle; often with the lower part emphasized by a darker shade corresponding to 

 the oblique band of the obliquana group. A broad contrasting median oblique 

 fascia to costa, and spot on inner margin, the former not distinctly cut by pale 

 veins; marginal dark band clean-cut, set back a little from the margin, a little 

 irregular, running from apex to inner margin. Hind wing gray. 10-15 mm. 



Xot rare from July to October. 



This species is strongly variable in ground color and slightly so in pattern. 

 One specimen is suffused with fuscous, with the darker fuscous markings not at 

 all contrasting. 



Generally distributed. Xew York: Peru, Slaterville, Ithaca. 



13. P. bomonana Kearfott. Similar to P. angulatana, ground light, lightly 

 dusted with blackish; the markings only partly dark-shaded, partly of the ground 

 color, and only defined by their paler edging; the median fascia cut by pale shades 

 on the veins, and the subapical patch and subterminal fascia hardly paler than the 

 ground, but with distinct pale denning lines and some black scaling. 15 mm. 



The type has the basal markings of the same form as in P. dorsimaculana, of 

 which it is probably a dark variety, showing the coloring of P. angulatana. 

 With this Kearfott has associated a Florida specimen which seems rather to be 



