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spots. Fringe with a dark line near base, dark-shaded below middle and at apex. 

 15-18 mm. 



June and July; September. 



General. New York: Niagara Falls, Ithaca (aberration with R 2 free), Albany, 

 Pearl River. 



2. D. daeckealis Haimbaeh. Similar to D. reconddtalis; differing in the unbroken 

 median line of the hind wing. Black; a faint white line from costa to middle 

 of wing at three -fourths way to apex, and another evenly curved line across 

 both wings; a large white spot in fringe of fore wing. 13 mm. 



June. 



Brown's Mills, New Jersey. 



53. GESHNA Dyar 



Our species (which belongs doubtfully to this genus), with palpi oblique, 

 shorter than those of the other Nympkulinse, the third joint well set off and 

 rather blunt (fig. 350); tongue much thicker than palpi; maxillary palpi large 

 and triangularly scaled; fore wing with R 5 free. Outer margin about as in Elophila. 

 (Typically with R 5 stalked, and the outer margin rounded.) 



1. G. (?) primordiaUs Dyar. Fuscous, with the exact pattern of Blepharomastix 

 stenialis, but usually without any yellow, or with very little; distinguishable, at 

 last resort, only by the stalking of R 2 . 10-15 mm. 



Very common in damp places in June and early July. 



Generally distributed. New York: Vandalia, Crosby (Yates County), Ithaca, 

 Big Indian Valley. 



54. EURRHYPARA Hiibner 



E. urticata Linnaeus (Palpita hortulata), a black and white European species 

 with yellow thorax; has become established at MacNab's Island, and at Truro, 

 Nova Scotia. The larva is found on nettle. 



Subfamily SCOPARIINJE 



Similar to the Pyraustinae, but with labial palpi porrect and beak-like, and 

 maxillaries large and triangularly scaled, as in the Crambinse (fig. 354). Fore 

 wing (figs. 352, 353) with more or less distinct raised scaling; with R 3+4 , R 5 , and 

 Mj more widely spaced at origin than usual in the Pyraustinae. 



55. SCOP ARIA Haworth 



Front flat; antennae cilate, more or less distinctly annulate; fore wing (figs. 

 353, 354) oblong with short outer margin, R 5 divergent; hind wing with Sc and R 

 fused, but often for a very short distance, R and M 1 shortly stalked, M ; stalked. 

 Slender forms with moderately long legs. 



Caterpillars (fig. 355) not well known; the group Eudoria found under moss, 

 etc., on trunks of trees; the typical group apparently in roots of Compositae. 



■ Key to the species 



1. Expanse over 15 mm., typically over 25 mm. Fore wing dark, sometimes shaded 



with gray 1 . centuriella. 



1. Expanse under 15 mm. 



2. Wings fuscous; markings diffuse, partly pale 2. peilumbrali-s. 



2. Wings light powdery ash gray, with contrasting dark markings. 

 3. Orbicular, claviform, and reniform represented by longitudinal black bars. 



5. strigalis. 



