76 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. , 



Can. Ent. It is sordid yellowish white, with the head piceous and the 

 next segment stained with fuscous. It feeds inside the leaf buds of the 

 beech ( Fagns sylvatiea), and when it has well eaten out the contents of 

 one bud, it cuts it off at the base, and using it as a case, travels off to 

 another bud, to the apex of which it affixes its case and proceeds to eat 

 out this bud also, and then cuts it off, as it had done the first, and pro- 

 ceeds to another bud. I have known it to attach four buds together in 

 this way, thus making a case nearly two inches long. It pupates in its 

 case, which it attaches to a leaf, and the imago emerges in Kentucky in 

 the latter part of June. 



brenthia, Clem. 



B. fiavonacc/la Clem. 



Not having seen Dr. Clemens' specimens, and being unable to recog- 

 nize my bred specimens in any descriptions by him or any other author 

 within my reach, I had proposed to describe this species as new under the 

 name of Microcethia amphicarpavana, and specimens so labelled are in 

 the cabinets of various Entomologists. Prof. Fernald, however, on com- 

 parison with Clemens' types, recognizes my specimens as identical there- 

 with. I have no doubt this determination is correct, though having again 

 examined Dr. Clemens' description, it seems to me singularly incomplete. 



In the " Tineina of North America " (Mr. Stainton's republication of 

 the Clemens' papers) p. 134, Mr. Stainton, who had seen Dr. Clemens' 

 types, writes that it is " probably a Simaethis" and at p. 41, again, that 

 he is disposed to consider the insect " not a Tineina, but one of the 

 Pyralidina allied to Simaethis " ; and on p. 38, Dr. Clemens states that 

 having " examined a specimen of Simaethis, I must acknowledge that 

 Brenthia seems congeneric with it " ; but he thinks its proper location is 

 among the Tineina, and not the Pyraiidina. Zeller refers pavonacella 

 Clem, to Chorentis, which is Stephens' section " A " of Simaethis. The 

 species appears to me to have some decided affinities with the Tineina, but 

 upon the whole to be rather referable to the Tortricina. 



Dr. Clemens mentions that it has the habit of " strutting about on 

 leaves," but Mr. Stainton " has never observed this habit in any of the 

 English species." The appearance of the insect in repose is decidedly 

 strutty, and full of self-iniportance. A human being who would make the 

 same effort to display his or her adornment, would subject himself to a 

 well-founded charge of egregious vanity, but perhaps the insect is no more 





