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tricids. The larvae of latifasciana and comariana are rather similar, 

 and Swatschek (1958, p. 74) is even inclined to treat them as varia- 

 tions of one and the same species. He found, nevertheless, that, in 

 distinction from latifasciana, the larva of comariana (which he erro- 

 neously calls comparana) has the cervical shield dark-edged anally and 

 that its thoracic legs and warts are brown. Meyrick (1895, p. 525) 

 and Sorhagen (1901, p. 311) gave dark-green lateral lines as a char- 

 acter of the larva of comariana. None of the authors distinguishing 

 between latifasciana and comariana mention any lateral lines in the 

 larva of the former species. Only Pape (1939, p. 169), describing 

 the larvae of the "Azaleenwickler" under the name schalleriana, 

 gives these lines as their character. The problem, whether comariana 

 or latifasciana is the real "azalea pest" in Europe, cannot be defini- 

 tively resolved in the present paper, and the answer on this question 

 is expected from the European entomologists. It is, nevertheless, 

 completely clear that the species found in Canada on imported azaleas 

 is comariana but not latijasciana. 



The present note is based on the fu'st authentic record of comariana 

 in North America.. This species has been known before only from 

 Europe; its record in Kwangtung (Meyrick, 1934; p. 31) is somewhat 

 doubtful. 



Specimens examined. — One male and one female (genitalia on slide, 

 prepared by A. Busck, Oct. 29, 1924), "on azalea from Belgium, 

 imported to Ottawa, Canada, Oct. 24, 1924"; one male (genitalia on 

 slide, prepared by A. Busck, Jan. 11, 1924), Montreal, Quebec; one 

 male and one female (genitalia on slides 3-Obr. and 4-Obr., Oct. 29, 

 1959), Madeley, England, Sept. 16 and Oct. 8, 1928 (H. C. Hayward). 

 All specimens m USNM. 



Acleris ptychogrammos (Zeller), new combination 



Teras hastiana var. •ptychogrammos Zeller, 1875, Verliandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 



vol. 25, p. 213. — Walsingham, 1879, Illustrations of typical specimens of 



Lepidoptera Heterocera, pt. 4, p. 76. — Fernald, 1882, Trans. Amer. Ent. 



Soc, vol. 10, p. 7. 

 Alceris [sic] hastiana ptychogrammos. — Fernald, [1903], U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, 



p. 473, no. 5309g, 1902. 

 Peronca hastiana (in part). — Meyrick, 1912, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum 



catalogus, pt. 10, p. 68; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 149, 



p. 64. 

 Peronea hastiana form ptychogrammos. — Barnes and McDunnough, 1917, Check 



list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, p. 178, no. 7439. 

 Peronea hastiana var. ptychogrammos. — Forbes, [1924], Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. 



Stat. Mem. 68, p. 486, 1923. 

 Peronea ptychogrammos. — McDunnough, 1934, Canadian Journ. Res., vol. 11, 



pp. 293, 325 (fig. 6), 329 (fig. 3); 1939. Mem. Southern California Acad. Sci., 



vol. 2, p. 58, no. 7474. 



