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This little moth may possibly be one of Clemens's species, but on com- 

 paring it with the European G. geminella, Linn., in Mr. Stainton's collec- 

 tion, I found it so very similar that I have no doubt of the identity of the 

 two. especially as their species is said to breed from Oak buds. It may, I 

 think, safely be added to the list of insects common to both continents. 

 It so closely resembles the well known Tinea grand la, Linn., that the two. 

 upon a casual glance might easily be confounded. The larvai of the 

 two species differ materially, however. That of the latter is a very general 

 feeder, and 1 have even bred it from the dry corks of bottles contain- 

 ing poisonous substances ; it is of a uniform dirty-white, or tallow colour, 

 the head with dark-brown jaws, and its brown border showing plainly 

 through a semi-transparent honey-yellow cervical shield. That of the little 

 Gelechia, on the contrary, is deep carneous and more pilose, and though 

 the head and shield are of the same honey-yellow colour, the latter has 

 darker posterior and lateral margins.- C.V. Riley, St. Louis, Nov. i, 187 i. 



Destruction of the Walsh Cabinet in the Chicago Fire. 

 We have no reason to suppose that the great Chicago fire consumed any 

 considerable number of noxious insects, with the exception of that very 

 familiar and domestic species known, in scientific language, as the Cimex 

 lectularius. If these had been the only insects destroyed, resignation 

 would have been an easy virtue. But, as if it were ordained that no kind 

 of interest should escape grief and loss from that great calamity, so the 

 science of entomology was put under heavy contribution, by the destruc- 

 tion, not onlv of many small amateur collections of insects, but also bv 

 the ruin of the large collection belonging to the Chicago Academy of 

 Science, and over and above all, in value and importance, was the admir- 

 able cabinet of insects purchased by the State from the heirs of the late 

 Benj. D. Walsh, of Rock Island, and which had been deposited in the 

 Academy for safe keeping. 'The value of this collection consisted not 

 only in the large number of species represented, but still more in the 

 scientific accuracy with which they were labelled and classified. About a 

 tenth part of this cabinet, which happened to be at the residence of the 

 writer, consisting mostly of duplicates of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. 

 which had been set aside for the Industrial University, is all that is left of 

 this famous Cabinet. When we consider the long years of patient toil and 

 research of which this cabinet was the result, the thought of its irrevocable 

 destruction becomes too painful to be dwelt upon, especially by the pro- 

 fessed entomologist, to whom this cabinet was invaluable for purposes of 

 reference. — Prairie Far me} . 



