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ments, which are brown. Each spot with a light brown hair. The 

 cervical shield same color as the body ; lateral edges brown ; underside 

 same as above ; thoracic feet tipped with brown. Length, .24 mm. Food- 

 plant, asters ; drawing together several leaves so as to form a bunch. 

 May 31. Imago emerged June i8th. 



Salebria celtella, Hulst (MS.) 



Head pitchy black, with irregular, dirty, whitish markings, and an 

 oblique stripe of the same color on each side. Body pale green, with a 

 number of pea green, equidistant, longitudinal stripes, as broad as the 

 intervening spaces. Cervical shield jet black, and on which the stripes 

 of the body are sordid white. Along the subdorsum is a row of minute 

 piliferous spots, and two rows along the sides. Body beneath green, and 

 without marking, except the first segment is jet black, as are also the first 

 pair of thoracic feet. A few hairs are also scattered over the body. 

 Length, .22 mm. Food plant, Celt is occidefitalis, folding together a few 

 of the terminal leaves. Aug. Spins a rude cocoon between leaves. 



NOTE ON THE GENUS CROCOTA AND PROF. J. B. SMITH. 



BY A. R. GROTE. 



Readers of Mr. Smith's papers will have noticed the frequent critical 

 remarks at my expense, and it may have appeared to them that I have 

 been often most culpable. But, in every case, although I have not the 

 pleasure of knowing all of Mr. Smith's publications, these criticisms can 

 be shown to be perversions of the case. So in the genus Crocota, in 

 which determinations are difficult, Mr. Smith says (p. 193, vol. XXI.) : — 

 " The matter has been further confused by Mr. Grote's persistent refusal to 

 refer to Mr. Reakirt's species," and further that "he ignores them alto- 

 gether." I ask anyone how I can "confuse" the "matter" by simply 

 not referring to Mr. Reakirt's species by name, seeing that I do not know 

 these species, have never seen the types, and am not disposed to 

 believe in them ? And, moreover, since Mr. Reakirt's descriptions refer 

 to Eastern species, postdating my own, and those of other author's which 

 I discuss, if they are not distinct species they are thus clearly synonyms, 

 and Mr. Smith says the descriptions may be "poor," as indeed they seem 

 to me to be. But the whole statement is inaccurate, for everywhere, 



