72 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 

 Continued from Page 50. 



GRACILLARIA. 



If the rule holds good absolutely that the same generic name should 

 not be used in Entomology and Botany, then Gracillaria must be dropped 

 ill one or the other. I do not know which has priority, but a name of a 

 genus so old and well known as the Gracillaria of Micro-Lepidopterists 

 ought scarcely to give place to an obscure genus of Cryptogarnia. 



EIDO ALBAPALPELLA. 



Venillia albapalpella, ante v. 4, p. 207. 



Dr. Packard calls my attention to the fact, which has slipped my 

 memory, that Venillia is preoccupied among Geometridce. I therefore 

 substitute Eido for it. 



PSORICOPTERA GTBBOSELLA, Staillton. 



Adrasteia quercifoliella, ante v. 4, p. 206. 



When ' Adrasteia ' was established I knew Psoricoptera only by name 

 A specimen of A. quercifoliella which I sent to Mr. C. V. Riley, was pro- 

 nounced by him to be nothing else than P. gibbosella, St. Mr. Riley 

 states that he has bred the species from larvae feeding on Oak leaves, and 

 that he compared his bred specimens with specimens in the collection of 

 Mr. Stainton. He has also favored me with a generic and specific 

 diagnosis of P. gibbosella, and I am satisfied that his identification of A. 

 quercifoliella with it is correct. Adrasteia must therefore give place to 

 Psoricoptera, and the species which I have placed in the former must be 

 removed to the latter genus. Some of the ether species (as e. g. D ? 

 pscud-accaciclla) which I have placed provisionally in Depressaria, also 

 approach very nearly to Psoricoptera, if they do not in fact belong in it. 



PTEROPHORUS. 



P. lacteodactylus. N. sp. 



Creamy white. Head pale lemon yellow, except between the antennae 

 where it is of the general creamy white hue ; abdomen with a streak of 

 pale lemon yellow along the sides. Alar ex. i}i inch. Kentucky, in 

 June. 



