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commonly broken by the veins. Fringe dusky, with white line 

 at base. Hind wings smoky, with black marginal line and dusky 

 veins, and fringe with white basal line followed by a dusky band, 

 beyond which it is paler. Surface of hind wings considerably 

 bronzed, the fore wings less so. Beneath wings fuscous bronzed. 

 Outer field of fore wings somewhat paler; hind wings gradually 

 darkening outward. 



Antenna? dark; proboscis gray; palpi dusky bronzed. 



Described from twelve Illinois specimens. 



Distribution — Columbia, S. A., (Zeller), Florida, Texas, Illi- 

 nois, Colorado, Utah, Washington, pretty general throughout 

 the eastern United States and Canada. (Hulst). 



LITERATURE. 



The species was first described in 1863 as Nephopteryx semi 

 funeralis by Walker in the British Museum Catalogue, Part 27, 



S. 58; and again in 1882 according to a note kindly sent me by 

 Ir. Hulst, as Euzophera impletella, Zeller,* this description 

 being based on specimens from Columbia, S. A. In this country 

 it was described by Hulst in 1887 in Entomologica Americana 

 (vol. Ill, p. 137) as Stenoptycha palluleUa. 



The original description of the genus was given by Heinemann 

 under the name Stenoptycha, in 1865, in his work on the Lepid- 

 optera of Germany and Switzerland§, but as this generic name 

 was pre-occupied by Zellert, the genus was re-christened Melia 

 by Heinemann, on a later page of the same workt. Melia proved 

 however, also to be pre-occupiedH , as noted by Zeller in 1867, and 

 the current Euzophera was then finally proposed. 



THE FRUIT BARK BEETLE. 



/Scolytus rugulosus, Rtzb; order, Coleoptera; family, Scoly- 

 lidoe. It is now quite generally understood that Columbus was 

 not the only European discoverer of America, certain Icelanders 

 and Norwegians, at any rate, having found our shores before his 

 time. The entomologist, also, knows that this continent has 

 been many times discovered since by adventurers from the Old 

 World, none of them aware of the successes of the other; and it 

 is now my duty to report upon one of these insect explorers 

 which has recently found its way across the sea, and has also dis- 

 covered by experiment that the plum, peach, pear and apple 



•Hort. Soc. Ent. Ross., Vol. XVI, (1882) page 234. 



§Die Schmetterlinge Deutsclilands und der Schweiz, page 190 (1805). 



tStett. Ent. Zeit., 18(53, page 154. Zeller's use of this name for a genus of Pterophoridaa 

 is also illegitimate, as it has already been applied by Agassiz to a Medusa. (Contr. N, 

 H. Amer, Vol. II, page 149. 1SB2.) 



t 1 c. p. 209. 



ITUsed previously in Muscidaj, Pyralidae, Crustacea, Mollusca and botany. 



