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hyaline, basal aand marginal cells complete ; the latter completely closed, 

 one and one-half times as long as high, and with the stump of a vein at 

 its lower angle. • . 



Described from a single specimen from Snake Hill, New Jersey ; 

 collected in June by Mr, Wm. Beutenmuller. Type in the collection of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



This species can be easily distinguished from O. spinosus, Ashm., the 

 only other described North American species, by its bifoveate scutellum, 

 and straight, black, post-scutellar spine. 



ON THE GENUS PROTEOPTERYX. 



BY PROF. C. H. FEUNALD, AMHERST, MASS. 



This genus was established by Lord Walsingham in Illustrations of 

 Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the 

 British Museum, Part IV., North American Tortricidse, p. 68 (1879), with 

 emarginajia, VVlsm., the only species under it. This variable species was 

 taken in Mendocino and Lake Countie.=, California, in considerable 

 numbers (about 40 specimens) in June, 1871, and five varieties were 

 described. His Lordship had the great kindness to give me several 

 examples representing the difierent varieties. 



The generic characters, as given in the original description, need 

 some revision, which the author would doubtless have given before this 

 time if he had had occasion to review the genus. There is a costal fold 

 in the three male specimens of this species in my collection, which 

 character the author overlooked, as it is generally so closely pressed to 

 the surface of the wing as to be scarcely visible, but in one of my 

 specimens the fold on one wing is turned up sufficiently to expose the 

 usual pencil of long hairs. Veins 7 and 8 of the fore wings are said to be 

 " scarcely separate at their origin," which is true in my examples of this 

 species, but in some allied species belonging to this genus these veins 

 arise near each other, or are connate, or stalked, or sometimes connate in 

 one wing and stalked in the other of the same specimen. Vein 5 in the 

 hind wing is bent down, and has its origin near that of the stem of 3 and 

 4, which are stalked. The European species, crcuana, Hub., belongs to 

 this genus. 



Mailed April 6th, 1904. 



