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Acleris maccana aberration leporinana. — Obraztsov, 1956, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 99, 

 p. 149. 



Types. — Type of leporinana is a specimen from "Abyn." ("Lap- 

 ponia meridionalis"), in the Entomological Museum of the University 

 of Lund, Sweden (cf. Benander, 1940, cited above). According to 

 Sheldon (1930), the type of canescana is the specimen figured by 

 Herrich-Schaffer (1847, pi. 3, fig. 16); the original locality and the 

 present location of this specimen are unknown. 



Specimen examined. — One male, Winchendon, Mass., Oct. 20, 

 1902, AMNH. 



Acleris nigrolinea (Robinson) 



Figure 7,a; Plates 5 (figs. 13-16), 11 (figs. 36-39) 



Teras nigrolinea Robinson, 1869, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, p. 281, pi. 7, 

 fig. 67.— Fernald, 1882, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 10, p. 6 (in part). — 

 Grote, 1882, New check list of North American moths, p. 57, no. 7 (in part). — 

 IClots, 1942, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 79, p. 414. 



Alceris [sic] nigrolinea. — Fernald, [1903], U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 473, no. 5305 

 (in part), 1902. 



Peronea nigrolinea. — Meyrick, 1912, in Wagner, Lepidopterorum catalogus, pt. 

 10, p. 66; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 64 (in part). — 

 Barnes and McDonnough, 1917, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Boreal 

 America, p. 178, no. 7435.— Forbes, [1924], Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. 

 Mem. 68, p. 484 (in part), 1923. — McDunnough, 1934, Canadian Journ. 

 Res., vol. 11, p. 294; pp. 325 (fig. 3), 329 (fig. 5); 1939, Mem. Southern Cali- 

 fornia Acad. Sci., vol. 2, p. 58, no. 7475. 



The present information on this species is rather scanty. The 

 original locality of the type specimen should be Grimsby, Ontario, 

 although the lectotype of nigrolinea, selected by McDunnough (1934), 



Figure 7. — Top portion of the male genitalia, above, and cornuti, below, of three Acleris 

 tpec\es: a, A . 7iigrolifi fa (Roh'mson); b, A. disputabilis, new species; c, A. maximana (Barnes 

 and Busck). 



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