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fix it to a strip of card for the want of small pins. The specimen may 

 have been injured in its parts by this treatment, but I cannot discover 

 any injury. He likewise forwarded at the same time a specimen of the 

 case, which is earth-brown in color and consists of silk, granulated with 

 particles of fine sand, and therefore the larva could not have been a wood 

 miner as Mr. Walsh at first supposed. The larva is in all probability lich- 

 enivorous and feeds in the portable case in which Mr. Walsh found it in 

 the fiill. I sincerely hope the discoverer of the species, will not fail to 

 ascertain the natural history of the larva and put it on record in the pages 

 of the "Journal," for I know no^one who can do this more pleasantly and 

 accurately. 



In his letter to me .Mr. Walsh says: " The little moth I sent you is cer- 

 tainly not a ^wood-miner' although it occurs under the bark of shag-bark 

 hickories and other trees with scaly bark. From finding the larva late in 

 the fall and the winter enclosed in its case in that situation, I had suppos- 

 ed that it fed under the bark; but I ascertained in August and September 

 that it was not there and therefore conclude that it merely retires there to 

 become a pupa. I noticed an individual apparently identical this winter 

 attached to a pine board fence. There was not the least appearance of 

 'mining' under the bark, by which I understand cutting a channel similar 

 to other boring insects." 



Only the males of the genus Solenohiu are winged, and the females 

 have attracted much attention recently, in consequence of the fact that 

 they lay unimpregnated fertile eggs. 



NEPTICULA. 



N. fuscotibiella. — Antennse dark fuscous, basal joint silvery white. Head red- 

 dish-yellow. Fore wings purplish-fuscous, with a rather broad, slightly oblique 

 silvery band exterior to the middle of the wing. On the costa of the wing the 

 the band is rather nearer to the base than on the inner margin ; cilia j^ale grayish. 

 Hind wings pale gray, with pale gray cilia. Thorax dark fuscous with a purplish 



hue. Legs and abdomen beneath yellowish with a brassy lustre, the hind tibise 

 fuscous. 



Taken at light on the 11th of August. 



N. bifasciella. — Antennae pale fuscous, basal joint silvery. Head pale reddish- 

 yellow. Fore wings dark bronzy-green, somewhat purplish at the base, with two 

 silvery bands; a rather broad, straight one on the basal third of the wing, and a 

 narrower straight one on tlie apical third: cilia gray. Himl wings gray, with 

 gray cilia. 



At light, 11th of August. 



N. Platanella. — Anteunn' dark fuscous, eye-caps large, silvery. Head reddish- 

 ochreous. Fore wings dark brown, with a small white, slightly silvery spot on 

 the middle of the inner margin and a verv short costal streak of the same hue 



