Genus HORMISA Walker

This is a small genus of which there are known to be four species inhabiting our territory. We figure the two commonest of these.

(1) Hormisa absorptalis Walker, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 19, 8. Syn. nubilifascia Grote.

The moth ranges from Canada to Virginia and westward to Illinois.

(2) Hormisa bivittata Grote, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 31, 3. The moth, which is not common in collections, is found from Quebec and Maine to Wisconsin and Iowa, and southward as far as Pennsylvania and Ohio.

FIG. 171.-Sisyrhypena orciferalis, . .

(1) Sisyrhypena orciferalis Walker.

Syn. pupillaris Grote; harti French.

The figure which we give was drawn for this book from the type of the species which is in the collection of Mr. Grote in the British Museum. The insect occurs in the southern States.

Genus PHILOMETRA Grote

Three species are reckoned as belonging to this genus. give a figure of one of them.

We

(1) Philometra metonalis Walker, Plate XXVII, Fig. 30, 8. Syn. goasalis Walker; longilabris Grote.

The moth is found from Nova Scotia and the region of Hudson Bay to Virginia and westward to Illinois.

Genus CHYTOLITA Grote

(1) Chytolita morbidalis Guenée, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 23, . The moth is not at all uncommon in the Atlantic subregion.

Genus HYPENULA Grote

One species is reckoned as belonging to this genus.

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FIG. 172.-Hypenula cacuminalis, f. 1.

(1) Hypenula cacuminalis Walker.

Syn. biferalis Walker; opacalis Grote.

The moth is a native of the southern portions of our territory. The figure we give is taken from Walker's

type, which is preserved in the British
Museum. We also give a figure of a
specimen preserved in the American
Museum of Natural History, and which
was determined by Mr. Grote as his
species, to which he gave the name
opacalis. The comparison of the two
figures will serve to illustrate the variability of the species.

FIG. 173-Hypenula opacalis Grote, . t.

Genus RENIA Guenée

There are eight species belonging to the genus which are found within the region covered by this book. One of the commonest of these is selected for illustration.

(1) Renia discoloralis Guenée, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 24, 8. Syn. fallacialis Walker; generalis Walker; thraxalis Walker. The insect is very common in the Appalachian subregion.

Genus BLEPTINA Guenée

(1) Bleptina caradrinalis Guenée, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 32, 8. Syn. cloniasalis Walker.

The moth occurs from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and westward to the Rocky Mountains.

Genus TETANOLITA Grote

Three species are assigned to this genus in the latest lists. Of these, we have selected the one which is the type of the genus

for purposes of illustration. The specific name mynesalis was originally applied to the insect by Walker. Subsequently Grote gave it the name lixalis. The cut hereto annexed was drawn

FIG. 174.- Tetanolita mynesalis, ¿. }.

from Walker's type, which is contained in the collections of the British Museum. The moth ranges from Pennsylvania to Illinois and southward to the Gulf of Mexico.

Genus HETEROGRAMMA Guenée

(1) Heterogramma pyramusalis Walker, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 26, .

Syn. gyasalis Walker; rurigena Grote.

The species is found from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and westward to the region of the Great Plains. It is the only species in the genus.

Genus GABERASA Walker

(1) Gaberasa ambigualis Walker, Plate XLII, Fig. 2, ô. Syn. bifidalis Grote; indivisalis Grote.

The male moth has the fore wings bifid. Grote described the female, which has not bifid wings, under the name indivisalis. The moth occurs from Canada to Texas.

Genus DIRCETIS Grote

SLIM

FIG. 175.- Dircetis pygmæa Grote, . .

There are two species of the genus which are found within our borders. We give in the cut a figure of the type of Grote's

species to which he applied the name pygmæa. It is found from Florida to Texas along the shores of the Gulf of Mexico.

Genus PALTHIS Hübner

Two species of the genus are found within the United States. We figure both of them.

(1) Palthis angulalis Hübner, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 25, . Syn. aracinthusalis Walker.

The insect is very common everywhere from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico east of the Great Plains.

(2) Palthis asopialis Guenée, Plate XLII, Fig. 1, 9.

The distribution of the species is the same as that of the preceding.

Genus CAPIS Grote

(1) Capis curvata Grote, Plate XXXVII, Fig. 33, 9.

The insect is found in Maine, northern New York, and Canada. It is the only species belonging to the genus.

Genus SALIA Hübner

Two species belonging to the genus are found within our territory. We figure in the accompanying cut the type of one of these, which received the specific name interpuncta at the hands. of Mr. Grote.

FIG. 176.-Salia interpuncta, . .

The moth is found from Massachusetts to Arizona.

Genus LOMANALTES Grote

(1) Lomanaltes eductalis Walker.

Syn. lætulus Grote.

The figure of the moth which we give was drawn for this book by Mrs. Beutenmüller of New York from a specimen contained in the collections of the American Museum of Natural History. The insect ranges from Nova Scotia to Minnesota and southward to New York and Pennsylvania.

FIG. 177.-Lomanaltes eductalis, . 1.

Genus BOMOLOCHA Hübner

Sixteen species occurring within our limits are attributed to this genus in the latest List of the Lepidoptera of North America. Nine of these we illustrate.

(1) Bomolocha manalis Walker, Plate XLII, Fig. 3, 3. The moth ranges from Canada and Minnesota southward to the valleys of the Potomac and the Ohio.

(2) Bomolocha baltimoralis Guenée, Plate XLII, Fig. 4, 9. Syn. benignalis Walker; laciniosa Zeller.

The geographical distribution of the species practically coincides with that of the last.

(3) Bomolocha bijugalis Walker, Plate XLII, Fig. 7, 9.
Syn. fecialis Grote; pallialis Zeller.

The insect occurs from Canada to Florida and westward to

the Rocky Mountains.

(4) Bomolocha scutellaris Grote, Plate XLII, Fig. 10, 3. The moth is found from New England to British Columbia, but does not range far to the south.

(5) Bomolocha abalinealis Walker, Plate XLII, Fig. 5, ♂ .

The habitat of the insect extends from New England and Canada westward to Illinois and southward to Pennsylvania and the Virginias.

(6) Bomolocha madefactalis Guenée, Plate XLII, Fig. 6, 8. Syn. achatinalis Zeller; damnosalis Walker; caducalis Walker; profecta Grote.

The insect is found from the Middle States southward to Texas.

(7) Bomolocha toreuta Grote, Plate XLII, Fig. 9, 8. Syn. albisignalis Zeller.

The moth ranges over the same region as the last-mentioned species.

(8) Bomolocha deceptalis Walker, Plate XLII, Fig. 8, 3. Syn. perangulalis Harvey.

The moth is found from Canada to Virginia.

(9) Bomolocha edictalis Walker, Plate XLII, Fig. 11, 3.

Syn. lentiginosa Grote; vellifera Grote.

The range of the species is the same as that of the last mentioned.