160 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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Abdomen brown on the upper surface, the under surface and tuft silvery 

 whitish. Legs brown, tarsi annulate with white. AL ex. j£ inch. 

 Behrens, San Francisco. 



NEPTICULA. 



JV. badiocapitella. N. sp. 



Vertex rusty or reddish brown ; face a little paler or more reddish ; 

 palpi silvery : eye caps silvery white ; antennae brown. Thorax and 

 patagia white. Fore wings dark iron gray with a white fascia about the 

 middle, the fascia irregularly outlined and wider on the dorsal than on the 

 costal margin ; at about the apical fourth are a costal and opposite dorsal 

 white spot, distinct and rather large, which are sometimes faintly con- 

 nected or nearly so, forming a linear fascia deeply concave towards the 

 base ; ciliae white ; legs yellowish, except the anterior surface of the first 

 pair, and the outer surface of the hind tibiae ; abdomen bluish fuscous. 

 AL ex. yi inch. Kentucky in June. It is a rather coarsely scaled and 

 distinctly marked species. 



(To be Continued.) 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Dear Sir, — 



I enclose a few words from Prof. P. O. Zeller. to whom I had sent a 



copy of my paper on the Tentamen. showing his utter condemnation of 



the present effort of a few of our lepidopterists to resuscitate Hubner. 



His letter is dated Griinhorf, 23 June, 1876. . . . "I know Scudder's 



work concerning the Generic Names of Butterflies, and I could not say 



wherein I do not agree with your verdict upon the same. Since that 



miserable, worthless Tentamen is such a foundation for Scudder's theory, 



he will consider himself unfortunate in having mistaken the date of its 



publication. . . . The Tentamen was printed, not in 1806, but in 



1805. . . . Why not leave Hubner's birds and butterflies to 



sleep quietly in the grave ? Since he has disturbed them, they will be 



shoo'd around for a while, let us hope as uselessly as the Tentamen/' 



Yours, 



W. H Edwards. 

 Coalburgh, 21 July, 1876. 



