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is also a dark dorsal shade in hartmanniatia from base to angle, which is 

 entirely wanting in our American species. 



Deceptajia is not unlike Archips afflictafia, Walk., but can readily be 

 separated by structural characters. The ^ of afflidana has a costal fold, 

 which is absent in deceptana. The median vein of hind wing of decepiana 

 is hairy at base above, which is not the case with afflictatia. The costa 

 of deceptana is more rounded or arched than afflidana. Zeller's identifi- 

 cation of hartmanniana was from specimens collected in Mass. by 

 Burgess. I am much inclined to the opinion that these specimens were 

 afflidana^ which is common in the Eastern States, or it is possible that 

 they were more or less rubbed specimens of albeo/ana, Zell. By removing 

 hartmanniana from our lists, Zeller's species albeolana, which has been 

 listed as a variety of hartmanniana, will become a good species, and 

 represent the very distinctly marked species, the larvae of which are 

 always found on birch (Bettda alba). Hartmantiiana, according to 

 Meyrick, feeds on Willow (Salix). 



Olethreutes vetuiafia, '''Wlsm. — One ^ , Regina, VIII., 30. Described, 

 from California and Texas and not since recorded. Type, 17 mm. 

 Regina specimen 22 mm., and more of a dark chocolate-brown than 

 California specimens and type, which are a reddish-brown. 



Olethreutes campestrana, Zell. — Three specimens, Regina, VIII., 13, 

 and Pincher, VII., 10 ; marked identically with Zeller's figure, but 

 expanding only 12 mm. All other specimens in my collection and the 

 types expand 16 to 18 mm. These may be diminutive examples of 

 campestrana or a new species, but I would long hesitate describing as new 

 anything in this genus with the characteristic white inner and outer bands 

 and dark fuscous or dark-brown basal patch, central band and sometimes 

 apical patch, forming four or five well-defined vertical fasciae, as there are 

 already seven species (5469 to 5475, Smith's List) so closely allied that I 

 have yet been unable to separate them. Besides the above is a fourth 

 specimen labelled Indian Head, VI., 29, that is darker and differing in 

 the indentations of the white fasciae, and especially in the ornamentation 

 of the apical patch, which seems closer to dealbana, Walk., but is too 

 badly rubbed to be positively identified. 



*Smith's List, 1903, No. S454, erroneously printed vestulana. 



