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Acleris emargana blackmorei, new subspecies 



Rhacodia effradana.- — -Walsingham, 1879, Illustrations of typical specimens of 



Lcpidoptera Ileterocera, pt. 4, p. 76. 

 Teras effradana. — -Fernald, 1882, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 10, p. 5. — Grote, 



1882, New check list of North American moths, p. 57, no. 1. — Moffat, 1891, 



Canadian Ent., vol. 23, p. 168. 

 Alceris [sic] e^radana.— Fernald, [1903], U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 472, no. 5299, 



1902. 

 Peronea caudana. — Meyrick, 1912, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 10, 



p. 59; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 61. — Barnes and 



McDunnough, 1917, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, 



p. 178, no. 7412. 

 Peronea emargana. — McDunnough, 1934, Canadian Journ. Res., vol. 11, pp. 291, 



325 (fig. 1), 329 (fig. 1); 1939, Mem. Southern California Acad. Sci., vol. 2. 



p. 58, no. 7472. 

 Aderis emargana (in part). — Obraztsov, 1956, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 99, p. 151. 



Male. — Forewings dark gray brown to ruddy brown, usually with 

 a more or less wide, reddish area near tornus; costa with a very flat 

 excavation. Length of forewing, 8-11 mm. 



Female. — Similar to male, but excavation of costa of forewings 

 deeper. 



Types.— Holotype, male (genitalia on slide, prepared by A. Busck, 

 Mar. 3, 1924), Goldstream, British Columbia, Aug. 7, 1923 (E. H. 

 Blackmore); allotype, female, the same data, Aug. 6, 1923. In 

 USNM (no. 65591). 



Paratypes. — British Columbia: four males and four females (geni- 

 talia of one male on slide, prepared by A. Busck, Mar. 4, 1924), 

 Goldstream, Sept. 5, 1920, and Aug. 6-7, 1923 (E. H. Blackmore); 

 one male and four females (genitalia of three females on slides, pre- 

 pared by A. Busck, Mar. 1 and 2, 1924, and Nov. 9, 1923), Victoria, 

 Sept. 9, 1920, Sept. 2, 1921, and Aug. 24, and Sept. 8, 1922 (E. H. 

 Blackmore); one male, the same locality, July 26, 1922 (W. R. Carter); 

 two males (genitalia of one on slide 557, prepared by C. Heinrich), 

 Kaslo, July 25, 1894, and May 20, 1899 (H. G. Dyar); all the above 

 paratype specimens in USNM; one male, Vancouver Island, AMNH. 

 Ontario: one male, Ottawa, Aug. 5, 1905 (C. H. Young), AMNH. 

 Washington: two males (genitalia of one on slide 735, prepared by 

 J. F. Gates Clarke, Nov. 7, 1934), Toad Lake, Whatcom County, 

 Sept. 3, 1929 (J. F. Gates Clarke); one male, Bellingham, Whatcom 

 County, July 25, 1923 (J. F. Gates Clarke); one male and one female, 

 Lake Ballinger, Snohomish County, Aug. 19, 1930 (T. C. and J. F. 

 Gates Clarke); all the above specimens from the State of Washington; 

 in USNM. 



Remarks. — This subspecies is named for E. H. Blackmore. The 

 name has been adapted from labels on genitalia slides prepared by 

 A. Busck who considered blackmorei to be a separate species. There 



