3 12 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, '08 



Eupithecia miserulata Grote. 



RICHARD F. PEARSALL, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



In order to identify this insect (the type being lost) the 

 writer has examined, during the past three years, many thou- 

 sand specimens, and over two hundred examples of the species, 

 which he has become firmly convinced, should bear that name. A 

 brief outline of the work done has been stated by Mr. J. A. 

 Grossbeck (Ent. News, Vol. 18, pages 342-346), much of it 

 along independent lines, yet mutually helpful toward the one 

 determination we most sought. 



After I had left the city for the summer, he received the 

 specimen from Philadelphia, which he finds to answer so ex- 

 actly to Crete's description that he declares it to be miserulata, 

 and probably the lost type. Since my return it has not been 

 possible for me to visit New Brunswick until ten days ago, 

 when we again examined this supposed type. Having carried 

 with me a good series of the species we originally called mis- 

 erulata, it was not difficult to convince Mr. Grossbeck that his 

 supposed type was exactly the same with some of these. My 

 object in relating this incident is not to discredit Mr. Gross- 

 beck's judgment for I consider it excellent but to bring out 

 the fact that Grate's description FITS NO OTHER SPECIES. 



That an independent example, without locality, supposed to 

 be different, has been found to so exactly answer it, and then 

 to discover that it comes back to the species we originally se- 

 lected, seems to me a positive proof that we have the real 

 miserulata "nailed down," taking also in connection with it the 

 other facts we have gathered, and still further that it is this 

 species reared from a larva which Mr. Grote saw in the col- 

 lection of Mr. William T. Davis and named miserulata. 



And what is this species? It is the nebulosa Hulst. The 

 Rev. G. W. Taylor has given his opinion that another species 

 (Can. Ent., Vol. 39, p. 168) sent by me to him, which I take 

 rarely in Bronx Park and in the Catskill Mountains (fihnata 

 Pears.), is miserulata, but my series will in no wise answer 

 Grate's description; and, further, my species is not the same 



