Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States 531 



New Hampshire and Ontario to Illinois, Missouri, and south. New York: 

 Buffalo, Ithaca, Big Indian Valley, Schenectady. Nassau, Highland, New Windsor, 

 Florida, Katonah, New York City. 



6. ABTA Grote 

 (Heliades Kagonot) 



Palpi quite short and porrect or drooping; front smooth-scaled, tibiae practically 

 smooth -scaled; fore wing (fig. 307) triangular, and without striking sex modifica- 

 tions; Sc long, normal, reaching well beyond middle of costa; one branch of R 

 free, three stalked, one lost; M 1 free; M 2 and M 3 stalked; 2d A and 3d A becoming 

 coincident. Hind wing with Sc and R anastomosing more than half way from cell 

 to apex; CUj shortly stalked with M 2+3 , and 1st A lost. 



1. A. statalis Grote. Light pinkish brown, with a fine straight pale line at 

 three-sevenths, and a similar slightly waved one at five -sevenths; hind wing 

 grayish, with traces of postmedial line. 15 mm. 



The moth flies about Myrica in July and August, and is locally common in 

 Massachusetts. The southern distribution is uncertain on account of confusion 

 with A. olivalis and other related species. 



New Hampshire to Illinois and south. "New York" (Grote). 



2. A. olivalis Grote. Light olivaceous, with faint white lines. 14 mm. 

 July and August. 



Maryland; North Carolina; Texas. 



7. CONDYLOLOMIA Grote 



Front slightly tufted; legs with thick scaling but without definite tufts; palpi 

 short, porrect, and hairy below. Fore wing (fig. 310) narrower than in Arta; 

 in male, with a small portion folded over a third way out on costa, bearing a black- 

 ish hair-tuft, and with a rudiment of a basal cone; retinaculum heavy, frenulum 

 normal; fore wing with cell minute, one -fourth length of wing, very short toward 

 costa; Rj lost; R 2 running into Sc, which bifurcates, both branches running to 

 costa; Mi widely separated from R 3 _ 5 ; M, from lower angle of cell; Cu 2 shortly 

 stalked with M 3 +Cu!; 3d A fused ior a short distance with 2d A; with a strong 

 free tip. Hind wing with Sc and R moderately anastomosing; M 1 arising from 

 the free sector of R, Cu x short-stalked with M 2+3 . Female with R x becoming coin- 

 cident with Sc; the other three radials stalked; one lost; M 2 and M 3 long-stalked. 



1. C. participialis Grote. Pale grayish olivaceous, darker toward the margin; 

 with a diffuse darker antemedial line, and a darker, followed by a pale luteous, 

 postmedial line, both slightly irregular. Hind wing darker gray. 12-15 mm. 



Moth flying over Myrica in July and August. 



Massachusetts to Pennsylvania and Illinois. New York: Rock City (Catta- 

 raugus County), Ithaca, Katonah. 



8. POLLOCCIA Dyar 



Palpi much longer than head, beaklike, drooping, legs slender. Wings (fig. 311) 

 not much modified sexually; fore wing with Sc free, one R from tip of cell, three 

 stalked and one lost; M x separate; M 2 and M 3 stalked; Cu, and Cu 2 approximate 

 from lower angle of cell; cell one -third length of wing. 3d A shortly anastomosing 

 with 2d A, with free tip. Hind wing with Sc and R completely fused, M x moder- 

 ately stalked with them; CUj and Cu 2 free; 1st A preserved. 



1. P. alticolalis Dyar. Clay-color, more or less suffused with pinkish, and shaded 

 with light gray, partly defining the ante- and postmedial lines; antemedial line 



