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" Canada." One of the paratypes Kearfott had labeled " oUvaceanum 

 Fernald." The rest formed part of a series -which he had set aside 

 as a new species under the manuscript name " nortanum.'''' I have 

 not adopted the latter as it already appears as a manuscript name 

 in the New Jersey list in connection with two specimens representing 

 another species {inelanoTnesum Heinrich). 



E. hrevirostratum is very close to valdanuni McDunnough of 

 ■which it may very likely be nothing more than a western race. 

 Until the life histories in this group are more thoroughly worked 

 out, however, it had better be kept as a separate species. 



38. EXARTEMA PERMUNDANUM Clemens 

 (Figs. 90, 225) 



Exartema permundana Clemkns, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1860, 



p. 356. 

 Sciaphila meanderana Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 28, 



1863, p. 341. 

 Sericoris permundana Clemens, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philadelphia, vol. 5, 1865, 



p. 134. 

 Exartema permundanum Zelleb, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 25, 1875, 



p. 273. — Fernald, in Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5015, 1903. — 



Barnes and McDunnough Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 6798, 



1917. 

 Cijmolomia gaylussaciana Kearfott (ms), Ins. New Jersey, 1910, p. 539. 

 Cymolomia permundana Forbes, Memoir 68, Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta., 



1924, p. 466. 



This is a very common species and of some economic importance 

 as an enemy of strawberry, raspberry-, and huckleberry plants. It 

 seems to have a great variety of hosts. Clemens gives Spiraea as 

 the host of his type ; and in the National Museum we have a speci- 

 men labeled as reared from hickory. It has also been recorded from 

 hazel. Published records are doubtful, however, as other species 

 are frequently identified as fermuiidanum. Kearfott regarded the 

 huckleberry feeder as a distinct species and gave it the name 

 gaylussaciana. I can find nothing to separate it from typical 

 fei^iundanum either in pattern or structure. At any rate the name 

 has no standing as a description Avas never published. 



Female genitalia and harpe of male figured from reared speci- 

 mens in National Collection; female from District of Columbia 

 ("on raspberry, June 12 — '79"); male from Waupaca, Wisconsin 

 ('"on strawberry, Chittenden no. 6790"). 



Bursa of female without signum. 



Distribution. — District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, • 

 New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ngav Hampshire, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Wisconsin, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec. 



Alojr expanse. — 14-19 mm. 

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