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6. Ground color of fore wing much broken by wavy blackish vertical lines. 



(12) unguicella. 

 Ground color of fore wing little broken by vertical blackish lines. 



(13) paclficana. 



7. Fore wing with a sinuate whitish longitudinal line 8 



Fore wing without such line 9 



8. Veins 3 and 4 of hind wing very short stalked, often nearly connate. 



(11) goodelliaaa. 



Veins 3 and 4 of hind wing moderately long stalked (lO)diminutana. 



9 Fore wing with a defined basal patch 11 



Fore wing without defined basal patch 10 



10. Fore wing with costa from base almost to apex broadly margined with pure 



unmarked white (17) albacostana. 



Fore wing with costa of the brownish ground color, faintly strigulated, from 

 base with blackish and toward apex with white (16) tineana. 



11. Basal patch of fore wing continuing to costa; if obscured toward costa, 



then costa at base broadly smeared with semilustrous leaden purple or 



steel blue scales 12 



Basal patch not continued to costa ; costa at base whitish ochreous or gray 

 strigulated with brown or black 1 14 



12. Head white or whitish (5) divisana. 



Head decidedly ochreous 13 



f (7) muricana. 



13. Basal patch of fore wing dark purplish 1 ^g^ ^^^^ cornifoliana. 



Basal patch ferruginous ochreous (6) apicana. 



14. Basal patch and outer dark shading of fore wing brown or brownish red- 15 

 Basal patch and outer dark shading of fore wing ferruginous orange. 



(3) var. fragariae. 

 (1) comptana. 



15. Dark shadings of fore wing distinctly brown . ^2) var cometana 



Dark shadings of fore wing brownish red (4) var. floridana. 



1. ANCYLIS COMPTANA (Frohlich). 



Tortrix comptana Feohlich, Enumer. Tort. Wurt., 1828, p. 99. 



OraphoUta conflexana Walker, Cat. Lepid. Heter. Brit. Mus., vol. 28, 1863, 



p. 384. 

 Phoxopteris comptana Zellek, Verb. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 24, 1875, p. 257. 

 Ancylis comptana Febnald, In Dyar List N. Amer. Lepid., no. 5252, 1903. — 



Barnes and McDunnough, Check List Lepid. Bor. Amer., no. 7185, 1917. 



This is the species known to our economic literature as the " straw- 

 berry leaf roller." In Europe it has a number of food plants of 

 the rose and mint families. Here it is most commonly found on 

 strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries. I was inclined to re- 

 gard Zeller's species amblygona and -floridana as mere color varieties 

 which should be treated as synonyms. Dr. W. T. M. Forbes, how- 

 ever, thinks that they can be held as local races; the typical comp- 

 tana as the dark form ranging from northern New Jersey north- 

 ward, fragariae {amblygona) as the pale form from southern New 

 Jersey, Ohio, and Missouri westward and southward; and floridana 

 as the dark form ranging from southern New Jersey southward. The 



