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Gnophcla Jiopfcri feed on \\'yithia. This (the Emplocia) is a 

 shy insect and keeps a weather eye open for pursuers. 



Dr. Prime tells me that Sicva inacnlaria Harr. has not been 

 found by him, except very rarely, and then only one year, at 

 Franconia, N. H., where his summer home is. But at his 

 " Cabin," as he calls it, some 1500 or 2000 feet higher on the 

 mountain, near the notch, the insect appears suddenly about 

 the middle of August, and in about a week disappears just as 

 suddenly. It comes in myriads, so that, as it is attracted by 

 the light, it is impossible to read or write owing to the multi- 

 tudes fluttering about, and the walls and ceiling of the room 

 are covered and literally made yellow by the moths at rest 

 upon them. 



PYRALIDINA. 



Sir George F. Hampson has published a classification of the 

 Pyralidina of the world, which is of great interest to all who 

 have to do with these insects. It is difficult, however, to make 

 much of a comparison, as his genera are rarely or never founded 

 upon what is peculiar to one sex only. His subgenera, there- 

 fore, correspond pretty fairly to our genera. He brings out 

 one new point in the synonomy that Toripalpus Grt. is the 

 same zsjocara Walk. 



From Mr. Hampson I have had a number of determinations 

 of species. He is of the opinion that Moodna pelviculella Hulst 

 equals Manhatta lugubrella Rag. The genus is a good one. 

 Ragonot had the female only. 



( 'nadilla nasntclla Hulst is a synonym of I 'nadilla crronclla 

 Zell. 



Mr. Hampson thinks Atascosa bicolorella Hulst is a synonym 

 of Saluria glareosclla Zell. But if Ragonot' s description of his 

 genus Saluria is correct, the species are not only not the same 

 but are in different genera. Atascosa has 1 1 veins in the fore- 

 wings, while Salitn'a has 10 only. In his new classification, 

 \\hich will be published in Volume II of the Phycitidae of the 

 World, Ragonot will place g/arcocclla under Ponjadia Rag. 

 But in . Itascosa the antemue of <? are hardly crenulate, are 

 bent above base, and have scale tuft. In J\ntjadia they are 

 strong! > crenulate, sometimes pectinate, bent above base, with 



