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Types. — ^Lectotype of suhnivana (selected by the present author), 

 male (without abdomen), Nova Scotia (Redman), BM. Lectotype 

 of deflectana (selected by Klots, 1942), female, Pennsylvania, in the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Holotype of peculiana, 

 Texas, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 



Variation. — McDunnough (1934) noted in suhnivana variation of 

 the ground color of forewings, their reticulation in some specimens, 

 and the triangular costal spot solid or interrupted by a pale patch. 

 The present author can add that there are specimens of suhnivana 

 in which a slight pale brownish band, connecting the costal spot 

 \Ai\i the dorsum, is present. This band in two of the examined 

 specimens is especially well developed and dark: in a female lecto- 

 paratype, without data, and a female from New Brighton, Pa., 

 Oct. 19, 1902 (H. D. Merrick), both in AMNH. A female specimen 

 (genitalia on slide, prepared by A. Busck, Oct. 10, 1924) from Van- 

 couver Island (A. W. Hanham), in USNM, has pale ochreous fore- 

 wings. The costal triangle is reduced to a gray minute dot repre- 

 senting the external part of this triangle. This dot is connected with 

 tornus by a narrow ochreous line slightly darker than the ground. 

 Instead of the inner part of the costal triangle, there is a pale brownish- 

 ochreous median fascia reaching the dorsum at tornus. This fascia 

 is very pale and almost obliterate in its lower section. The cilia of 

 forewings are pale chestnut brown. 



Acleris braunana (McDunnough), new combination 



Peronea ferrugana. — Barnes and Busck (not Schiffermiller and Denis), 1920, 

 Contr. Nat. Hist. Lep. North America, vol. 4, pi. 32, fig. 2. 



Peronea braunana McDunnough, 1934, Canadian Journ. Res., vol. 11, pp. 317, 

 328 (fig. 3), 332 (fig. 4); 1939, Mem. Southern California Acad. Sci., vol. 2. 

 p. 59, no. 7508; 1942, Canadian Ent., vol. 74, p. 70. 



Among the materials examined by the present author, there are 

 a male specimen taken at Greenport, Long Island (Sept. 23, 1947, 

 J. McDunnough; genitaha on shde 407-Obr.; AMNH), bred from 

 grape, and a male specimen from Silverton, Colo, (genitalia on slide, 

 prepared by A. Busck, May 10, 1935; USNM), bred from willow. 



Acleris kearfottana (McDunnough), new combination 



Peronea kearfottana McDunnough, 1934, Canadian Journ. Res., vol. 11, pp. 318, 

 328 (fig. 4), 332 (fig. 5); 1935, Canadian Ent., vol. 67, pp. 77 and 148; 1939, 

 Mem. Southern California Acad. Sci., vol. 2, p. 59, no. 7509; 1940, Canadian 

 Ent., vol. 72, p. Gl. 



As an individual form not yet described, a female specimen from 

 Hampton, N.H. (Apr. 26, 1908, S. A. Shaw; genitalia on slide 408- 

 Obr. ; AMNH), has to be mentioned here. The forewings are brown- 

 ish gray, paler distad, with a dark costal patch and a diffuse fuscous 

 shadow below it. 



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