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years since I went over the literature, but I believe Clemens describes 

 luteolelliis without the lines. If so, then duplicatiis might be kept for the 

 form with lines, of which ulce^ according to Prof. Fernald's figure, would 

 be a sub-variety. It was with feelings of perplexity and annoyance that 

 I found, on page 87 of the Philadelphia List, my Cr ambus dimidiatellus 

 referred as a synonym of T. pexellus. The beautiful species is now 

 rehabilitated, while I miss, wlmt Prof Fernald probably thinks is unneces- 

 sary, a word upon the circumstance. This is already the fifth name 

 which has been restored to me, and for those vvho profess to consider such 

 matters sentimental or unscientific, I should say that to me they are 

 very important, and the distress inflicted by a careless or prejudiced 

 reference is real. Schrank, in 1802, uses Tinea in the sense of Crambus ; 

 I miss an allusion to this in the " History," p. 4. Prof. Fernald has given 

 us since 1S84, in addition to catalogues and descriptional papers, four 

 pamphlets on the Insects and Grasses, chiefly of Maine and the Eastern 

 States. The fifth is this on the Crambids. I value all of them very 

 highly. They are bound together and, as I turn over the leaves here in 

 my study, separated by such miles of land and water from the one reality 

 of ray existence, I call to mind scenes and faces I may never behold 

 again. A. Radcliffe Grote. 



Roemer Museum, Hildesheim, Germany. 



Classification of the Gejmetrina of North America, with de- 

 scriptions of new genera and species ; by Rev. Geo. D. Hulst. 

 Trans. American Entomological Soc, Vol. XXIIL, pages 245 

 to 386, plates X. and xi. (1S69). 



The bulk of this paper consists of descriptions of 82 new genera and 

 143 new species, most of them from the West. That such an assemblage 

 of new forms can be described in a single paper shows the imperfect 

 state of our knowledge of the family. 



The most valuable part of Dr. Hulst's work consists in the tabular 

 synopsis of subfamilies and genera. The characters used seem con- 

 trasting and reasonably constant, so that these tables fill a long-felt want. 

 In fact, the article forms the skeleton of a complete monograph, lacking 

 only synoptic tables of species with descriptions of the old ones, bibli- 

 ography and larval descriptions. 



Dr. Hulst calls the group Geometrina, but in the opinion of the 

 reviewer this term is not warranted. We may accept Dr. Hulst's two 



