)44 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 



Hyclriominre. 



Beginning wilh Paleacrita, the genera can be arranged in a sequence 

 which is natural both as to structure and venation. The wingless female 

 gradually develops into one fitted for flight, while the male degenerates in 

 alar expanse, especially on the hind wings, the series reaching a full 

 development in both sexes as it progresses. A synopsis of the genera will 

 be given at the close of my work on each sub-family, 



I have dropped both Cysteopteryx and Agia, genera founded by Dr, 

 Hulst, the former upon a variety oi Nyctobia limiiata, and the latter on 

 a species previously described by Dr. Packard as Lobophora viridata. 

 Dr. Packard's species, however, is not a true Lobophora, but belongs 

 under Nyctobia. 



The genus Talledega, founded by Dr. Hulst, falls because the type 

 montanata, Pack., is a true Lobophora, Curt. The supposed absence 

 of hair pencil on the male, by which Dr. Hulst separated it, is an error. 

 It is present and very conspicuous, but lies in a cavity between the thorax 

 and abdomen beneath. Probably Dr. Hulst looked for the sheath or 

 groove in hind tibia, where it usually rests, and finding none, supposed 

 the hair pencil was wanting. 



The genus Opheroptera, Hub., should be dropped, the only species 

 under it, O. boreaia, having been very doubtfully catalogued by Staudinger, 

 from Greenland, many years ago. 



(To be continued.) 



CORRECTION. 



In the November number of this Journal, page 333, Dr, Ashmead has 

 described a parasite of the Grape- berry moth, giving the scientific name of 

 the moth as Eudeinis bortana. The specific name should be botrana. 

 This European name has been applied |to the American Grape-berry moth 

 by all writers since 1870, but as Mr, W. D. Kearfott and myself have just 

 demonstrated in Bulletin 223 from the Cornell Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, and also in the Transactions of the American Entomological 

 Society for December, 1904, the American insect is specifically distinct 

 and easily separated from the European Grape-berry moth. We find that 

 the American Cirape-berry moth should bear the name of Polyc/irosis 

 iiiteana, Clemens. The European Eudemis botrana is not known to occur 

 in this country, and the parasite was bred from the American species, so 

 the title of Dr. Ashmead's description should be corrected to include the 

 American name of the Grape-berry moth and not the European. 



M. V, SUNGERLAND. 



