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ous supply of all the forms bred. There were the plain slate-colored form, 

 the slate-colored with red scales mixed in, and the orange-colored form, 

 the malivoraua of LeBaron, which, without much doubt, is identical with 

 vacciniivorana, though the type of the latter is lost, and we now have only 

 a brief description to determine it by. Now, what greatly surprised me in 

 the examination was to observe at once that the orange forms were Teras 

 mimita Robs, which was re-described by Zeller as Teras variolana. I 

 have, for several years past, taken a Teras here in considerable numbers, 

 late in September, which I have sent to several correspondents in Europe, 

 who have written me that they were quite unlike anything there. These 

 proved to be like the slate-colored and red mixed form mentioned above, 

 except considerably larger ; I can see no difference except in size. There 

 is no cranberry growing where these are found, but other related plants, 

 as blueberry, upon which they might have fed. My impression is that 

 they hibernate in the imago state, but of this I am not sure. A few years 

 ago I received several specimens from Mr. G. M. Dodge, of Glencoe, 

 Neb., " bred on wild rose," which are so Hke those taken here that I could 

 separate them only by their greater depth of coloring and their much 

 larger size, for they are as much larger than those taken here, as these are 

 larger than those from Prof Riley, and others from Texas. I received 

 T rninuta from Mr. Dodge, and also from Mr. Morrison, taken in Nevada, 

 and they were also unusually large. I am, therefore, inclined to believe 

 them all the same sjDecies, but I am not yet ready to concede that oxycoc- 

 catia is the same thing. It will be better to allow it to remain separate 

 till it can be proved to be the same, rather than to unite them now, and 

 have to separate them later, should they prove distinct. 

 The synonomy is as follows : 

 Teras minuta. 



Tortrix minuta, Robs., 1869. 



Tortrix malivorana, LeBaron, 1870. 



Tortrix vacciniivorana. Pack., 1870. 



Teras variolana, Zell., 1875. 

 The above are the orange forms. 



Tortrix Cinderella, Riley, 1872. 

 Riley's name may be used to indicate the slate-colored form. 

 Robinson's T ^//zV/z^/^ was published in February, 1869, and Packard's 

 T. oxycoccana not until April, 1869. 



In December, 1878, I visited Prof P. C. Zeller, and examined the 



