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there are but few examples anywhere to be seen, but so late as August and 

 September, I have occasionally taken a $, never a ^. In some years 

 two or three, in others none. I have always confined these females for 

 eggs, but have failed to get any. On dissection a few nearly matured eggs 

 would be found imbedded in fat, and I had some time ago concluded that 

 these eggs probably were not impregnated, as I had seen no late males. 



But this last September, I received from Mr. Lewis Ullrich, of Tiffin, 

 Ohio, several hibernating cases of Ursula and a chrysalis. Mr. Ullrich 

 wrote me that on 26th x^ug., he obtained from a female tied in a bag over 

 a branch of apple tree 13 eggs, from which he got 11 larvae. Of these, 6 

 went into cases when half grown, i died when ^ grown, and 4 went to 

 chrysalis. Two of the chrysalids produced females, and these Mr. 

 Ullrich sent me. I dissected one of them, and could discover no signs 

 of eggs. Certainly there were ho eggs formed. The other female I sent 

 to Mr. C. S. Minot, who has not reported on its condition. 



This then accounts for the late examples of Ursula seen on the wing. 

 Part of a brood may go into winter cases, while some go on to chrysalis 

 and imago. But the existence of the species does not depend on these 

 late, or September butterflies. Far from it ! Disippus does not behave 

 like Ursula in this respect, as observations show, and there is no evidence 

 that Artheniis does. And yet, if any Arthe??ns, in any locality, are to be 

 found flying in September, their presence may be accounted for by 

 supposing that here and there a larva has passed the hibernating stage 

 and gone on to butterfly, without there being a "second brood." 



NEW SPECIES OF TINEID.E;. 



BY MARY E. MURTFELDT, KIRKWOOD, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



Gelechia Chambersella.— In some notes on the larvae of certain 

 Tineids, published in Vol. vi.. No. 12 of the Canadian Entomologist, I 

 referred to an interesting species found on Ambrosia artemesicefolia, which 

 I proposed soon to describe under the above name. The description 

 was indefinitely delayed by a vexatious accident by which I lost all my 

 perfect specimens. For several succeeding years I searched in vain for 



