MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 



Continued from Page 128. 



CLYMENE and CYLLENE. 



C. aegerfasciella ', ante p. 114, and C. minutisimclla, ante p. 125. 



When the generic and specific characters of these insects were written 

 — more than a year ago — I placed them, with much doubt, among the 

 Micro-Lepidoptera. Subsequent examination has only served to increase 

 those doubts, or rather, has convinced me that they are allied to the 

 Hydroptilidce, and are Trichopterous, if Hydroptila is Trichopterous. At 

 the same time, it was partly because I was unable satisfactorily to place 

 them in Hydroptila, or any allied genus heretofore described, that I was 

 induced to place them among Micro-Lepidoptera. These minute species 

 of supposed Trichopterous affinities are so little known ; the characters 

 of families, genera, and species are so vague ; and so much confusion 

 prevails about them, that I take the liberty of suggesting that the Hydrop- 

 tilidcz are more Lepidopterous than Trichopterous or Neuropterous — at 



