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author had opportunity to study during his visit to London in 1958. 

 Its genitaHa, preprepared and for many years kept dry in a vial, are 

 now on a shde. Unfortunately it was impossible to bring them to a 

 position suitable for a complete examination. It is nevertheless seen 

 from the slide (and the photograph) that they belong to a species of the 

 genus Acleris which is related to A. husckana (McDunnough) . The 

 well-developed cristae of the tegumen and the shape of the valvae 

 are especially characteristic of this little-known species. 



Type. — Holotype, male (genitaha on slide 5353), Sheep Rock, 

 Siskiyou County, Cahf., Sept. 3, 1871 (Walsingham) ; in BM. 



Remarks. — Walsingham (1879) described gloverana as a member of 

 the genus "Lophoderus" Stephens. Fernald (1903) placed it in the 

 genus Eulia Hiibner which is an older synonym of Lophoderus. 

 Probably he confused specimens of some other species with gloverana, 

 inasmuch as besides California, the type locality of gloverana, he 

 mentioned also the State of New York. Forbes (1924) appHed the 

 name gloverana for a species of the section Argyrotaenia Stephens of 

 the genus "Eulia," recorded in Massachusetts and New York. The 

 record in the Pacific States Forbes in all probability added on the 

 basis of Walsingham's original data for gloverana. The characters of 

 the species called by Forbes ^^ Eulia {Argyrotaenia) gloverana" correspond 

 rather to the species known recently as Argyrotaenia repertana Free- 

 man. In his review of the North American Argyrotaenia species. 

 Freeman (1944) mentioned gloverana as a species unknown to him. 

 In his recent paper, Freeman (1958) suggested that gloverana might 

 perhaps be a form of Acleris variana (Fernald). None of the above 

 authors had seen the type specimen of gloverana, and they based their 

 suggestions about this species exclusively upon the original descrip- 

 tion and figm*e of it published by Walsingham. 



Acleris maccana (Treitschke) 



tPyralis repandana Fabricius, 1798, Supplementum entomologiae systematicae, 

 p. 478. 



Peronea marmorana ?Curtis, 1829, British entomology, expl. pi. 16, p. 6. — West- 

 wood and Humphreys, 1845, British moths and their transformations, vol. 

 2, p. 159, pi. 94, fig. 9. 



Teras maccana Treitschke, 1835, Schmetterlinge von Europa, vol. 10, pt. 3, 

 p. 133.— Guenee, 1845, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 2, vol. 3, p. 143; [1846], 

 Europaeorum Microlepidopterorum index methodicus, p. 9, 1845. — Herrich- 

 Schaifer, 1847, Systematische Bearbeitung der Schmetterlinge von Europa, 

 vol. 4, Tortricides, pi. 3, figs. 14-15; 1851, Systematische Bearbeitung der 

 Schmetterlinge von Europa, vol. 4, p. 149. — Lederer, 1859, Wiener Ent. 

 Monatschr., vol. 3, p. 152. — Wocke, 1861, in Staudinger and Wocke, Catalog 

 der Lepidopteren Europas, p. 94, no. 555; 1871, in Staudinger and Wocke, Cat- 

 alog der Lepidopteren des europaeischen Faunengebiets, p. 233, no. 654. — Walk- 

 er, 1863, List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the British Museum 



