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the subject, in order that it may be more thoroughly investigated by those- 

 who have leisure. The theory advanced is, I think, a reasonable one,and 

 is based upon what I have noticed in my rambles during a number of" 

 years in the woods and fields. 



MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY v. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 



(Continued from page 77.) 



ERRATA. 



Page 73, line i, for " costa " read costal vein. 



" " 3, for "costal" read subcostal. 



" " 23, for '' place " read plead. 



Page 75, line 7 from the bottom, for " there " read then. 



PHiLONOME, gen. nov. 



The little insect which I have made the type of this new genus, unites- 

 in itself the characters of several genera. 



Tongue naked, about as long as the maxillary palpi, which nearly 

 conceal it. The maxillary palpi are about as long as the labial palpi and 

 in the dead insect are laid upon the coxae ; they are rather densely 

 scaled, the scales being somewhat roughened. The labial palpi ascend 

 about half way to the vertex ; the first and second joints are short; the 

 second has a minute tuft at the end beneath, and the third is about as 

 long as the first and second together, and somewhat roughened with 

 scales. P'ace broad, smooth, with appressed scales and much retreating ; 

 vertex roughened, with a large tuft of erect scales which extends down 

 between the base of the antennae ; no ocelli ; eyes moderate, visible from 

 beneath, but concealed above by the large eye-cap which clothes the 

 somewhat swollen basal joint of tlic antennae. Stalk of the antennae 

 simple, about two-thirds as long as the primaries. 



