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The basal third of the fore wing in this specimen is white, and the 

 remainder is deep purple brown. The present author saw a female 

 of this form from Wellington, British Columbia (May 15, G. W. 

 Taylor; genitalia on slide 459-Obr.; AMNH), and another female 

 from Hampton, N.H. (Mar. 31, 1905, S. A. Shaw; in the same collec- 

 tion), the latter with a well-developed dark-bro^vn reticulation as in 

 the form americana. This bicolored form is somewhat similar to 

 "form a" of britannia, described in the present paper, and a form of 

 braunana, mentioned by McDunnough (1934, p. 318). 



Food plant, — As stated on the label on a female from Orono, 

 Maine (Sept. 19, 1882; genitalia on slide, prepared by A. Busck, 

 Dec. 12, 1924; in USNM), the food plant of cervinana is alder. 



Type. — Lectotype (selected by the present author), male (genitalia 

 on shde, prepared by A. Busck, Apr. 20, 1925), Cambridge (or 

 ?Beverly), Mass., USNM. 



Acleris cervinana (Fernald) form americana Fernald 



Teras americana Fernald, 1882, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, vol. 10, p. 66. — Grote, 

 1882, New check list of North American moths, p. 57, no. 29. — Moffat, 

 1887, Canadian Ent., vol. 19, p. 88. 



Alceris (sic] americana. — Fernald, [1903], U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 475, no. 

 5324, 1902. 



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

 10, p. 62; 1913, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 149, p. 63. — Barnes 

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

 p. 178, no. 7421.— Forbes, [1924], Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Stat. Mem. 68, 

 p. 484, 1923. 



Peronea cervinana (in part). — McDunnough, 1934, Canadian Journ. Res., vol. 11, 

 p. 316. 



Peronea cervinana form americana. — McDunnough, 1939, Mem. Southern Cal- 

 ifornia Acad. Sci., vol. 2, p. 59, no. 7505. 



Type. — Lectotype (selected by the present author) male, Cam- 

 bridge (or ?Beverly), Mass., USNAl. 



Acleris santacriicis, new species 



Plates 2 (fig. 4), 9 (fig. 29), 10 (figs. 32, 33) 

 Antennae, head, and thorax brownish ochreous. Labial palpi 

 concolorous with the above, but much paler from inside. Forewings 

 with costa slightly excavate before somewhat produced apex; termen 

 shghtly concave below apex. Ground of forewings ochreous with 

 silky gloss; entire surface with brownish-ochreous reticulation con- 

 sisting of numerous fine, chiefly transverse lines. Basal area (less 

 than a quarter of wing length) separated by slightly darker bro\vnish- 

 ochreous fine convex line with minute groups of brownish-black 

 raised scales on it. At about middle of costa, an elongate brownish 

 spot oblique externad, reaching to below upper edge of discal cell and 

 connected there to another similar costal spot situated externad and 



