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some time I have conjectured it was the same as Eulwli?ia Stylobata 

 Harvey. With regard to the genera separated from Homoptera by Guenee, 

 I have merely insisted on the vaHdity of Zale in former papers. But I am 

 averse to throwing them together until we know the early stages upon 

 which Guened seems to have relied, using Abbot's drawings. Another 

 reason with me has been (as I have pointed out) that Ilotnopiera is a 

 term used in another Sub-order of Insecta. Probably Pheocyt?ia will have 

 to be adopted, as the insect I have identified as Lnnifera (figured by 

 Guenee) does not seem to me to differ generically from our other species 

 arranged under Homoptera. 



The type of Enbolina Impartialis recalled to me the Homoptera 

 Stylobata and Mima of Harvey, by the less completely lined secondaries, 

 and I have grouped the species near Homoptera, where I am satisfied they 

 are better placed, though probably higher than Homoptera and leading to 

 it. Unfortunately I made no study of the genus and cannot be certain 

 that the forms are correctly associated. Impartialis will probably occur in 

 Texan collections ; when I receive a specimen I shall examine it with a 

 view to settle its relationship with Campometra and the species referred to 

 Eiibolina in the " New Check List." Among the genera I have never 

 seen and which I cannot form any opinion upon from the descriptions are 

 Thaiimatopsis and Homophoberia. Although Mr. Smith does not mention 

 Cilia Distema, I do not think this can be the former. Mr. Smith seems 

 to have published his " Synopsis " without knowing a large number of my 

 generic types. But he seems to have all of Mr. Morrison's, and, while 

 following my reference of Eutricopis to Melideptra, he rehabilitates 

 Eucalyptera as distinct from Scolecocampa on the position of the labial 

 palpi ; this did not seem to me essentially different, and the two insects 

 have as close a general resemblance as Plagiomimicus and Polenta and 

 agree in other characters almost exactly ; I cannot now re-examine them, 

 but as the claw on the front tibiae of Tcpperi is overlooked by Mr. Smith, 

 and the exposed cup-like clypeal structure of Plagiomimicus, I feel certain 

 that the " Synopsis " is both unreliable and partizan, and the determined 

 use of BoisduvaPs and Treitschke's genera when they have not the sanc- 

 tion of priority, confirms my belief that it is written with a bias. Every 

 omission to make a complete and faultless diagnosis on my part is made 

 much of, while the generic descriptions of other writers, wanting in every 

 point : such as accuracy of statement, circumstantiality, completeness, 

 comprehension of the real affinity of the type (e. q. Polenta, etc.,) are 



