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its lower end; a nearly straight, but waved, fascia from below the spot in the cell 

 to the middle of the inner margin; hind wing with a median fascia, entirely very 

 narrow, or irregular and widened to twice its width above and below cell. All 

 the markings either translucent white or obscure yellowish, defined with dark 

 brown. 22 mm. ( animalis, exportalis, Guenee, primordialis Zeller ) . 



Late autumn. Larva on beet and chard; in greenhouses also on Alternanthera. 

 Green with black tubercles. Several broods, breeding continuously in greenhouses. 



New York to Illinois and south; also world-wide in the warm-temperature and 

 tropical regions. New York: Ithaca. 



2. H. fascialis Cramer (Hawaiian beet webworm). Brown, not varied with yel- 

 low; antemedial line obsolete; a broad white patch running up from middle of 

 inner margin to middle of cell, obliquely truncate above, and often sending out a 

 tooth toward anal angle; a large, white bar from costa, at three-fourths, halfway 

 to anal angle; with two white dots beyond its lower edge. Hind wing with a broad, 

 nearly straight, white median fascia, slightly broadened at the middle. 20 mm. 

 ( recurvalis Fabricius ) . ( H. 47 : 28. ) 



Larva on beet, chard, mangels, Amaranthus, and various weeds; sometimes 

 injurious. The moth is taken in the North, late in the fall. 



Subtropical, straying north to New York and western Pennsylvania. 



19. DESMIA Westwood 



Palpi with first two joints broadly scaled (fig. 327), the second rounded at end; 

 third joint short, with a more or less triangular tuft in front (less marked than 

 in Diastichtis) well set off, attached to upper side of second joint. Fore wing of 

 male (fig. 320) with outer margin oblique and about as long as inner; hind wing 

 relatively small, with lobed and sinuate costa and more or less extended anal 

 angle; female more nearly normal; fore wing with marked apex; hind wing with 

 waved outer margin. Fore wing with R 3 and R 4 very long-stalked. Hind wing with 

 M 3 and CUj closely parallel for a greater distance than usual. Male antennae with 

 a notch at middle of shaft, preceded by a scale tuft. The species are black with 

 white markings. 



1. D. funeralis Hiibner. Black, fringe white; fore wing with two large oval 

 spots; hind wing with a broad oval transverse band in middle, not quite reaching 

 costa or inner margin; in the female partly or completely divided into two spots. 

 20-28 mm. (H 47:37.) 



Rather common. Moth from May to October, with two or three broods. Larva 

 (grape leaf folder) sometimes injurious to grape; more rarely on Oenothera and 

 Cercis. 



Generally distributed. New York : Fentons ( Lewis County ) , Lewiston, Buffalo, 

 Niagara Falls, Ithaca, Big Indian Valley, Onteora Mountain, Schenectady, Rhine - 

 beck, New Windsor, Pearl River, Katonah. 



20. DIASTICHTIS Hiibner 

 (Botis, in part; Bocchoris Moore) 



Front flat, oblique (fig. 334) ; palpi obliquely porrect, with a triangular tuft on 

 second joint; third joint well set off, set on upper side of second, with a distinct 

 t rminal triangular tuft, rarely appressed against the tuft of second joint. Fore 

 wing pointed, broad; R G moderately curved, divergent; hind wing ample; Cu! 

 divergent; fringe on Cu more distinct than usual; cell nearly two-fifths of length 

 of wing. 



1. D. argyralis Hiibner. Bright ochre yellow (leather-brown in the northern 

 variety ventralis Grote ) , usually with an irregular series of dark brown ringed, 



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