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mate appearing to be a continuation of the discocellular vein, as in many 

 Phycitinse. 



1. E. superatalis Clemens. Clay color, often more or less dusted with gray 

 and black; antemedial line dentate and broken, or reduced to dots; postmedial 

 oblique above, triangular and sinuous below, black, subdentate and tending to 

 break up into dots, followed by a narrow pale area; the outer margin largely or 

 wholly dull red-brown to gray. Black terminal bars. Hind wing fuscous, some- 

 what paler at base. 20-25 mm. 



Generally distributed. New York: New Windsor; Chappaqua, Long Island. 



2. E. zelleri Grote. Base dull gray, ending in a broad, straight, erect, ante- 

 medial line, slightly dentate in female; postmedial line sinuous, meeting costa 

 and inner margin at right angles; with a little whitish beyond it on costa. 

 Median area whitish, more or less suffused with gray, especially in the female; 

 a more or less distinct blackish discal bar. Terminal space concolorous with 

 base. Hind wing gray. 23 mm. 



July. 



New Jersey to Florida and west. 



72. ONEIDA Hulst 



{Tioga, in part) 



Similar to Tetralopha, except as noted in the generic key. The position of M l5 

 which has been used for the separation of Oneida from the Tetralopha group, 

 is variable in both genera. The male maxillary palpi and wings are apparently 

 not modified. 



1. 0. lunulalis Hulst. Bluish gray, rather pale before the scale ridge, which 

 is of brown-tipped scales. Antemedial line far out, excurved, double, obscure. A 

 small whitish tuft toward end of cell, and a pale brown raised discal bar. Post- 

 medial concave on upper half of wing, contrasting, pale, followed by a series of 

 blackish streaks on a brown patch, and preceded by a dark brown line; rest of 

 the line very weak and nearly parallel to outer margin. A broken dark terminal 

 line and a pale line in base of fringe, followed by a gray shade. Hind wing light 

 fuscous. 22 mm. 



June to August. 



Massachusetts to Illinois; Canada. New York: Ithaca. 



73. TETRALOPHA Zeller 



(Pococera, in part; Lanthaphe Clemens; Benta "Walker; Ratona, Saluda, 

 Loma, Wanda, Attacapa, Tioga Hulst; etc.) 



Scale ring about socket of antenna complete; male antenna fasciculate, with a 

 more or less developed process on the scape; maxillary palpus of male plume- 

 like, enclosed in a groove in labial palpus. Fore wing (fig. 375) with small 

 separated antemedial tufts; venation unstable, but normally with R 2 stalked, Mi 

 free, M 2 and M 3 approximate or shortly stalked; male with a more or less hyaline 

 area in the cell, with a large tuft of enlarged scales projecting down from costa 

 on the under side and partly covering it. Hind wing with Sc and R fused beyond 

 cell, M 2 and M 3 approximate, or normally stalked. 



The species are almost hopelessly confused, and the analysis below may not 

 be wholly correct. 



Key to the species 

 1. Antemedial and subterminal spaces suffused with light reddish brown. 



5. baptisiella. 

 1. Outer part without strong pale red suffusion. 



2. Thorax and base mostly white 6. humerella. 



2. Head, collar, and base of wings suffused with pinkish 4. militella. 



