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in the 3rd Volume are equally without diagnosis, and yet have been 

 accepted. It is right here that the struggle has come in between the 

 Hubnerian and Treitschkean ideas as to generic characters in the 

 Lepidoptera. For the time the latter have obtained, and the former 

 have been rejected. But now Hubner's ideas are prevailing, and with 

 them his names will be reinstated in their undoubted right — a right which 

 should not be questioned, for the followers of Treitschke are convicted 

 both of appropriating Hubner's names, and endeavoring to implicate 

 Ochsenheimer after his death in the transaction. 



TINEINA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY 



LAVERNA. 



L. ? (Any bia 1) gleditschiceella. N. sp. 



The form of the palpi is that of Anybia langiclla St., as represented 

 Ins. Brit.. v. 3, but the wings are a little longer than those of langiclla are 

 there represented, though the hinder pair have the same form. The 

 neuration of the fore wings is that of L. cpilobiella (ftg'd loc. cit.) except 

 that the apical vein is obsolete in the single specimen examined by me ; 

 that of the hind wings also resembles that of epilobiella ; indeed, if the 

 dorsal and submedian veins were represented in the figure of epilobiella. 

 and the sub-apical or discal branch was produced forwards into the cell, the 

 neuration would be that of this species. All of the wing veins, except the 

 furcate apical branch of the fore wings, are unusually distinct in this 

 species. 



In LaT'erna, however, the species are usually rather coarsely scaled and 

 the wings are usually ornamented with tufts of raised scales, whilst this 

 species is remarkable for the fineness of its scales and its perfect smooth- 

 ness. But the genus Laverna is almost as indefinite as Gelechia itself. So 

 far as ornamentation is concerned, this species might be placed in 

 Asyctina. 



