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a pale angulatana, with the normal angulatcma pattern but with the coloring of 

 dorsimaculana. 

 Chicago, Illinois. 



14. P. rana Busck. Dull fuscous, with a slight purplish tint, mottled and dusted 

 with dull black; base blackish with strongly excurved or almost right-angled outer 

 boundary; a median oblique fascia running down from costa and a rounded spot 

 on inner margin, about as in angulatana; subterminal spot on costa less distinct, 

 and subterminal fascia barely traceable or absent. Hind wing nearly concolorous. 

 15-20 mm. 



August and September. Larva on ironweed. 

 Connecticut, western Pennsylvania. New York : Eye. 



15. P. smeathmanniana Fabricius. Straw yellow; markings deep brown, narrow 

 and clean-cut, vaguely pale edged. A slight olivaceous shade near base of inner 

 margin ; a narrow brown oblique bar from inner margin at one-third way out to 

 middle of cell two-fifths way out, with a small spot opposite its tip at middle of 

 costa; three postmedial brown spots, forming a series parallel to this bar, the 

 middle one sometimes diffuse and sometimes connected to the one on the outer 

 margin. 15 mm. 



July and early August. 



Sherbrook, Quebec; Maine; New York; California. New York: Newcomb, Ithaca. 

 The California record may belong rather to the closely similar P. paralleloMa 

 Walsingham. 



16. P.' scissana Walker. Light yellow; costa with numerous oblique light brown 

 stride, but no rounded spots; inner margin with an oblique bar near base, and a 

 rounded triangular spot beyond . middle, with some gray shading between them. 

 15 mm. 



Nova Scotia. Unknown to me. 



17. P. fuscostrigana Clemens. Olivaceous, marked with darker olivaceous brown; 

 the markings broadly edged with shining pale yellow. Base somewhat darkened. 

 Median fascia from inner margin at one-third way out to just before middle of 

 costa, less oblique than in P. scissana; dark brown, suffused with ochre yellow 

 in the cell. A small blackish spot on inner margin at two-thirds way out; a nearly 

 erect olivaceous subterminal fascia from costa to inner margin, less oblique than 

 the outer margin, and narrowing toward the inner margin. Fringe checkered in 

 lighter and darker gray. Hind wing gray. 15 mm. 



Labrador; northern New Jersey. Distribution uncertain. 



This species is usually confused with deutschiana. of which it is probably only 

 the eastern form. 



18. P. deutschiana Zetterstedt. Similar in coloring to P. fuscostrigana, but 

 without the bright yellow in the cell; the antemedial band more strongly oblique, 

 reaching costa at middle, interrupted by a vague pale shade in cell only; spot on 

 inner margin at two-thirds concolorous with it; subterminal fascia obscure, repre- 

 sented by a strong dark spot on costa only; pale edging of markings not silvery. 

 15 mm. 



Europe; Colorado. Eastern records are probably based on fuscostrigatm, if the 

 two are really distinct. 



1(1. P. floccosana Walker. Straw yellow, shaded with bright ochre on inner 

 margin and disc of wing to two-thirds, and on costal edge to one-third, leaving 

 a narrow yellow streak extending along cell to base. Hind wing almost white. 

 15 mm. (confusana Robinson). 



June. 



Nova Scotia to southern Ohio. New York: Ithaca. 



20. P. atomosana Busck. Straw yellow; duller than P. floccosa.na, dusted or 

 shaded with light wood-brown, and more or less dotted with black. A black dot, 

 or usually a group of dots, at lower angle of cell, and a dot below them in the 



