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GALLEREA CEREANA, L. (Rep. I, p. 166) This is the mcllonella L. of the 10th edition 

 Syst. Nat une. 



PEMPELIA GROSSULARI.E Packard (Rep. I, p. 140) The European Zopliodia conrohi- 

 tella Hiibn. (Fhycis grossulariclla Treitschke), which has precisely similar habits, 

 closely resembles this species. In 1871 I compared it with this last iu Mr. Stainton's 

 collection and with specimens received from Prof. Zellerand could detect no essential 

 differences. The European specimens are slightly larger, with broader wings and 

 usually clearer, paler gray coloring. Coloratioual markings are, however, very vari- 

 able in specimens from both sides of the Atlantic. 



P. grossiiJanai Packard was subsequently described by Grote as Dakruma iurbatella 

 (Bull. U. S. Geol.-Geog. Survey, IV, No. 3, p. 702 ; 1878). Dakruma seems to differ from 

 Zopliodia in nothing but the absence of the basal portion of the subcostal vein and 

 possibly, although this character is not mentioned by Grote, in the recurved palpi. 

 According to the synoptical table given by Heiueuiann, grossularkc would fall in the 

 genus Stenoptycha, distinguished from Zopliodia by the recurved palpi. We may well 

 question the generic value of this character, for different authors describe it quite 

 differently: thus, Heinemauu describes the palpi of Stenoptycha and Homeosoma as 

 recurved, Avhereas Grote describes them as porrect in these two genera, if we accept 

 his statement that Honora Grote is to be considered a section of Stenoptycha: there 

 appears also to be a difference iu position in specimens of the same species, according 

 as the palpi are heavily scaled or have lost the scales. From the known individual 

 variation in the venation of these and other moths, especially in the hind wings, we 

 cannot attach any specific, much less any generic, value to the slight difference in the 

 subcostal vein of Dakruma noted above. Moreover, authentic specimens of grossu- 

 larice do not appear to possess this character of Dakruma. I am, therefore, of opinion 

 that a study of sufficient material from both continents will prove the two specifically 

 identical, or at the most that our American insect is a variety, and that Dakruma will 

 not obtain. Packard is of this opinion, as in the later editions of his Guide the 

 species is called Hyelois convolutella. 



PENTHIXA VITIVORANA Packard (Rep. I, p. 133) This is identical with a European 

 insect having the same habits. It was first described over a century since by Schiffer- 

 miller & Denis as Tortrix tot ran a, and has been referred to various genera since, and 

 finally to Eudemis Hiibn., so that the insect should be known as Endemis bolrana 

 (Schiff.). Conchylis ambif/ucUa (Hiibn.) has very similar habits in Europe. See Nord- 

 linger's " Die Kleiueu Feinde der Landwirthschaft," p 424 if. It is the Lobesia botrana 

 of the later editions of Packard's Guide. 



EURYPTYCHIA SALiGNEAXA Clem. (Rep. II, 134). This according to Prof. Feruald, 

 who has seen the type, is the same as Clemeus's Hedya scudderiana (Proc. Acad. Sci.. 

 Phila., 1860, p. 358), the description of which is very brief and presumably taken from, 

 a female. The genus Em-uptychia (Proc. Eut. Soc. Phila. V, 140) is founded on the 

 male, which has a broad fold extending to the middle of costa on the primaries and 

 covering up a pencil of yellowish hairs. Zeller subsequently redescribed it as Pwdisca 

 affusana (Beitriige, etc., pt. Ill, p. 101 [307]). From a comparison of female specimens 

 I am led to believe that this is the same species that is commonly known in Europe- 

 as Spilonota roborana Schiff., though in Staudiuger and Wocke's Catalogue cynosbana 

 Fabr., described in 1875, is given the priority and aquana Hiibn. is placed as a synonym. 

 The obliquity of the edge of the basal dark patch and the details of the ocellated 

 spot upon which species have been separated, I find to be variable. 



The insect in Europe is known to feed on the leaf-buds of the rose. I have abun- 

 dant proof that in this country it is not a gall-maker, but, as was inferred in the 

 Report, an inquiliue. I have found its larva feeding upon the flowers as well as amid 

 the terminal leaves of the Golden-rod, and have also found it in other galls. When, 

 feeding in the more exposed positions it generally has a carneous or rosy tint. 



ANCHYLOPERA FRAGARIJE W. & R. (Rep. 1, 142) This has been referred to Plioxop- 

 teris comptana Frohl., and while the two very closely resemble each other Prof. Fernald 

 informs me that he yet believes fragarice to be distinct. 



