608 . William T. M. Forbes 



Generally distributed. New York: Ilion, Rhinebeck (Dyar), Onteora Mountain. 



5. T. baptisiella Fernald. Wings not very broad, plume blackish or yellow. 

 Thorax and basal half of wing white, somewhat shaded with light red, especially 

 the antemedial region; antemedial line white, dentate, mostly lost in the male; 

 outer half of wing light red; postmedial deeply dentate, the teeth defined on the 

 inner side with blackish, on the outer with white, especially in the middle of the 

 wing; all tufts white, black-tipped; the antemedial one below A absent. Terminal 

 line practically complete. Fore wing sometimes more or less suffused with 

 gray, but the species always distinguishable by the deeply dentate postmedial 

 line and the dentate antemedial, ending near the middle of the inner margin. 

 No distinct process on male antenna; a small scale-tuft only. 20 mm. 



Larva on Baptisia. 



Seen from New Jersey, West Virginia, and west. "New York" (Fernald). 



6. T. humerella Ragonot. Shining powdery gray. Postmedial far out, pale, 

 defined with gray, with a blackish shade on the costa beyond it; antemedial less 

 distinct and far out; tufts white, heavily black-tipped, contrasting, the base of 

 the wing before them contrasting, whitish. Terminal dots heavy, sometimes con- 

 fluent, alternating with heavy dark "gray bars in the basal half of the fringe. 

 18 mm. (formosella Hulst). 



Missouri. 



7. T. robustella Zeller. Wings broad. Basal segment of antenna much enlarged-, 

 without a process; maxillary plume yellow in male. Basal third purple black, 

 paler at extreme base, followed by an even, usually concave, fine, whitish ante- 

 medial line, cut by a small blister in the cell in the male; antemedial space pale 

 gray, shading into the darker gray outer half. Postmedial strongly sinuous, pale, 

 diffuse, terminal fine, broken; tufts black and white. 22 mm. {scortealis Lederer, 

 diluculella Grote. ) 



Larva on pine. 



Apparently general but rarely taken. 



Coenodomus hockingii Walsingham (Dyaria singularis Neumoegen ) , a heavy 

 Noctuid-like species with pectinate antennae, from India, has been taken but 

 once and is doubtless a stray introduction. 



Subfamily PHYCITINJE 

 (Phycinae) 

 Head with antennal socket separated from eye by a complete line of scales; 

 ocelli present; male antennae often fasciculate, with the base of the shaft often 

 curved and bearing a tuft of scales on the concave side ( fig. 390 ) ; scape very 

 rarely with a projection; antennae often normal. Palpi often upturned, always 

 large; maxillary palpi always well developed, in the male of some genera with long 

 hair scales on the outer joints, forming a plume-like structure, concealed in a 

 groove in the second segment of the labial palpus, which is in that case almost 

 always closely upturned; tongue well-developed; the palpi curving out a little 

 near the base, to make room for it. Fore wing with one radial lost, R 3 and R B 

 stalked, R 2 usually free; rarely, with R 3 and R 5 completely united; 1st A lost, 

 3d A weak and free. Hind wing with Sc and R usually fused for a distance 

 beyond the end of the cell, rarely closely approximate only; base of R as far as end 

 of cell, often lost, making Sc appear to rise from the end of the cell; the free 

 tip of Sc occasionally lost, and often very short, running directly across to the 

 costa. Frenulum of female simple. Hind wing with a strong fringe of straight 

 stiff hairs on base of Cu above; in many genera with one or two medials lost; 

 middle discocellular typically strongly curved, the lower part often very closely 

 approximate with the lower side of cell (base of CUj and M-Cu), always formed 

 as a normal tubular vein at the two ends'; in the middle, sometimes very weak 

 but never lost. M x usually stalked with R before R joins Sc, M 2 usually stalked 



