May, '02] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 13! 



of the Bombyciue Moths." On page 62 of this work is shown 

 the pupa of European Micropl< / T \ purpurclla. It also looked 

 familiar, and I placed under the microscope the pupa of one of 

 my chestnut miners and the mystery was solved. 



If Dr. Packard's drawing had been made from my pupa it 

 could hardly have shown a more striking likeness. All the 

 limbs and organs are free, and across the front, just below the 

 eyes, are the enormous cutting mandibles, the labrum is cleft 

 on the lower edge and bears eight setae ; on the epicranium are 

 also four long setae ; all of these setae are fully as long as half 

 the width of the pupa. On the square clypeus are the curious 

 filamentarious tentacles referred to by Packard. 



I succeeded in softening up one of the dried larva and inflated 

 it and give the following brief description: 5 to 6 mm. long, flat- 

 tened; segments 5 to 7, broadest, tapering to a narrow point 

 at anal extremity ; head small, brown, somewhat like that of 

 a Ncpticida; no pro-thoracic shield, but a small brown anal 

 shield ; apodous. 



I am at work on a detailed description of the pupa and larva 

 and will make enlarged drawings of all details, but will defer 

 publication until I can get fresh specimens to compare. 



In Tutts' work, referred to above, Vol. I, p. 129 et scq., is a 

 most elaborate account of the European members of this group, 

 citing the papers of Chapman and Waller, who have been 

 the foremost investigators in this family. Mr. Tutt divides the 

 group into two distinct and separate super-families : Microp- 

 terygidae and the Eriocranidae. The former includes the species 

 whose larvae feed on wet moss, and the latter those species 

 whose larvae are leaf miners, Lord Walsingham has erected a 

 new genus for two of the American species, /. e., J^iiuartvria 

 (E. panic/la Wlsm., and /:. au.ricrhirlln \Ylsm. ) and which 

 genus in some respects Tutt considers more archaic than 

 Micropteryx. 



It is quite probable that my species is Eriocrania griseo-capi- 

 tella Wlsm., as for several years I have taken a specimen of this 

 late in April or very early in May, or it may be another species 

 which is yet unidentified, of which I took one specimen in mid- 



summer two years ago. 



