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woody plants of Ohio, Hafner, New York, 362 pp.). Another probable foodplant, A. canescens Pursh, does not occur in Ohio. However, other species of Leguminosae are found in Ohio along with species of Catocala (minuta and illecta) that use them as hosts. Catocala whitneyi has been collected in Kentucky W of Louisville, where A. fruticosa is known to occur, but the moth has not been recorded from Indiana.
No Ohio specimens have been located in Ohio collections, nor in major collections including the U.S. National Museum and the American Museum of Natural History. The Museum of Comparative Zoology, where remnants of the Pilate collection are housed, likewise has no Ohio specimens of C. whitneyi.
The range of C. whitneyi reported by Barnes and McDunnough (above) is essentially correct. A specimen from Tennessee is in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The range extends N and W through the Plains States including W Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin to Manitoba, and W through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and N through the Dakotas. The recorded host, A. fruticosa, favors river and stream banks, whereas A. canescens is found on sandy soils and prairies. In Wisconsin (L. Ferge pers. comm.), C. whitneyi has a decided preference for prairie conditions, suggesting a relation with A. canescens; adults rest on the ground during the day.
I thank R. W. Rings and T. D. Sargent for critically reviewing the manuscript, and C. W. Albrecht for encouragement. Many collectors and curators allowed access to collections under their care, and others, including C. V. Covell in Kentucky and E. M. Shull in Indiana, quickly responded to requests for data. I also thank F. H. Rindge and Mary Genett, American Museum of Natural History, for searching Beutenmuller's files, and the late Alan Hayes for specimen photographs and label data in the British Museum (Natural History).
Eric H. Metzler, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Fountain Square C-2, Columbus, Ohio 43224.
Received for publication 9 March 1987; accepted 13 August 1987.
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CORRECTION OF A NAME IN THE EPINOTIA VERTUMNANA (ZELLER) SPECIES-GROUP (TORTRICIDAE)
Additional key words: taxonomy, Epinotia celtisana, Olethreutinae.
In a revision of the Epinotia vertumnana (Zeller) species-group (Brown, R. L. 1986, J. Lepid. Soc. 40:327-346), Paedisca celtisana Riley (1881 [1882]) was transferred from synonymy with Paedisca vertumnana Zeller (1875) to synonymy with Proteopteryx laracana Kearfott (1907), with the latter name listed as the senior synonym. However, Epinotia celtisana (Riley) is the valid name by priority, and Epinotia laracana (Kearfott) becomes a junior synonym.
Richard L. Brown, Mississippi Entomological Museum, Drawer EM, Mississippi State, Mississippi 39762.
Received for publication and accepted 11 August 1987.