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true of gibsonella, a northern degraded form of edonis, and true also 

 to a certain degree of color adella, a small degenerate form of pexella; 

 but the separation of coloradella and pc fella is more apparent than 

 real, coloradella being called "whitish brown," pexella, "pale 

 ocherous." As a matter of fact they are of the same color, colora- 

 della being only a smaller, less distinctly marked form. Pectinifer 

 Zeller stand under the heading "fore wing chocolate brown," where- 

 as Zeller says in his original description that it is "bleich ockergelb. " 

 No mention is made of daeckeellus Kearfott (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., 

 XI, 149, 1903), but this is not improbably due to the tacit acceptance 

 of its reference to the synonymy of striatella Fernald, which I once 

 made to Mr. Kearfott by letter. Mr. Kearfott 's article was pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, and is there- 

 fore supposed to have been founded upon museum material. To 

 comply with this requirement, the author of the paper deposited 

 types of many of his species in the collection. What was my surprise 

 to discover that of five cotypes of coloradella so deposited, two of 

 them especially labelled by Mr. Kearfott, no less than four were 

 spurious types, the localities from which they came not being men- 

 tioned in the original description at all ! Moreover, two of them are 

 true pexella, and not the form coloradella. 



However, it is not my purpose to write a hostile criticism of Mr. 

 Kearfott 's paper, much as it failed me in an emergency. Perhaps 

 if he had written by daylight instead of by electric light, he would 

 have seen the specimens in the same colors that I do. The separation 

 of repauda Grote and crenulatella Kearfott by the pectinations of 

 the male antennas shows careful observation, while the description of 

 fenialdella corrects a prevalent misidentification, this form being- 

 still called "pectinifer Zeller," even recently in the British Museum. 



Diatraea epia n. s. 



White, silvery, the body parts grayish white; fore wing largely 

 overwashed with pale ochre scales, in, below and beyond the cell and 

 along submedian space; subterminally are ochre streaks between the 

 veins, uniting to form a submarginal line, a powdering of dark brown 

 scales about the yellow patch beyond the cell and throughout the sub- 

 median fold, also subterminally on the veins and in diffuse patches 

 terminally; fringe white with brown central line and brown tips. 

 Hind wing pale gray outwardly. Expanse, 21 mm. 



One female. 



Type, No. 14351, U. S. National Museum. 



Diatraea prosenes n. s. 



White, silvery, the body parts grayish white; fore wing shaded 

 with dull ocherous brown broadly between the veins, the streaks 



