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Prof. Zeller has dcsc ribcd a great miiiilicr of American species, and the 

 types, in Lord \\'alsingham's possession. \\\\\ ]k- far more available for 

 assistance in the determination of our indigenous species than they would 

 be if placed in some continental museum. His Lordship has kindly given 

 so much aid to those of us who are interested in his specialty, in this 

 country, that wc have sufficient reason to rejoice over the increased facili- 

 ties for the study of our Micros wjiich he will have in the possession of 

 this tar-famed collection. 



Referring to his recent •' Notes on American TineidK," Lord Wal- 

 singham wishes me to  point out with his concurrence and apologise for 

 the error " that his genus liiiostoiiui — lirst characterized under the name 

 Idioi:;lossa in the Proc. Lnt. Soc. of London, 1881, p. 373 — is but a syn- 

 onym of Frey and Boll's Metamorpha, Stet. Ent. Zeit.. 1878, p. 277 — the 

 species described in the •' Notes " as amei-icella Wlsm., being the same as 

 ^^. miraculosa Fre\' and Boll. 



In this connection it may be well for me to change the names of two 

 species of Gelechia described b}' me in the December number of the 

 Can. Ent. for 1881, the names there published being, as I am informed 

 by Lord Walsingham, pre-occupied by European species in the same genus. 

 The name foniiosella for the species rolling leaves of laurel oak, is hereby 

 changed to veriwlla, in reference to its occurrence in spring-time only, so 

 far as I have l)een able to observe. G. cinerclla. the species mining and 

 crumpling the edges of the leaves of SolaiiiDii Caro/i/icnsc, may hereafter 

 be known as G. iiiconspicuella. 



The prett)- little Lithocolletis described in the same paper under the 

 name of L. ^regariella. is, in Lord ^^'alsingham's opinion, identical with 

 Clemens' L. desniodiella (see " Notes," p. 202). Mr. Chambers, on the 

 contrary, wrote me this spring that he was quite convinced that it was 

 distinct from Clemens' species. Since specimens bred from the same 

 plant and even from the same mine, vary in shade and in intensity of the 

 ornamentation, it is not surprising that some quite marked differences 

 should exist between exami)les mining Dcsiiiodiiim and those mining 

 Phaseo/iis, and yet these differences may not be of specific value. Never 

 having seen an undoubted specimen of desmodiella, I am not competent 

 to express an opinion on this subject, and am quite willing to accept the 

 determination of I^ord Walsingham. 



Mary E. Murtfeldi. 



Kirkwood, Mo., Jnne 12, 1883. 



