194 BULLETIN 123, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Vaccinium. In America it is best known as a pest of the cran- 

 berry. Plank's bulletin gives the life history and our latest informa- 

 tion regarding it. 



Male genitalia figured from reared specimens in National Collection 

 from Nova Scotia (" on cranberry, U. S. Dept. no. 7168, issued 17 

 Aug. 1896"). 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum, and collection Barnes : Nova Scotia, Washington, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania. 



Alar expanse. — 10-14 mm. 



Types. — Location unknown {naevana) :, In British Museum {luc- 

 tlferana) ; In Museum Comparative Zoology (vacciniana) . 



Type localities. — Europe {naevana) ; St. Martin's Falls, Albany 

 River, Hudson Bay {luctiferana) ; Massachusetts {vacciniana). 



Food plant. — Cranberry. 



2. RHOPOBOTA NAEVANA IIJCIFO LIANA (Kearfott). 



Epinotia ilidfoliana Keaefott, Bull, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol 23, 1907; p. 158. 

 Proteoteryx ilicifoliana Baenes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. 

 Amer., no. 7129, 1917. 



The genitalia of Kearfott's species are identical in all details 

 with those of the true naevana and I do not think it is any more 

 than a color variety or at most a food plant race. Eventually we 

 shall probably have to refer it to the synonymy ; but until the larva 

 is better known I prefer to hold the name as a racial designation. 

 Kearfott's cotypes average appreciably paler than the general run of 

 typical naevana^ but there is considerable variation in the latter even 

 among specimens of the same locality reared from cranberry and the 

 differences are by no means constant. 



Distribution according to specimens in National Collection, Ameri- 

 can Museum, and collection Barnes: North Carolina, New Jersey, 

 British Columbia. 



Alar expanse. — 12-14 mm. 

 , Type. — In American Museum. 



Type locality. — Black Mountains, North Carolina. 



Food plant. — Ilex verticillata. 



23. Genus EPINOTIA Hubner. 



(Pigs. 38, 358.) 



Genotype. — Tortrix similana Hiibner. 



Synonyms. — 1. Episagma Hiibner. Genotype. — Phalaena Tortrix 

 solandriana Linnaeus. 



2. Acalla Hubner. Genotype. — Tortrix opthalmicana Hiibner. 



3. Evetria Hiibner. Genotype. — PJialaena Tinea tedella Clerck. 



