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may have taken place in the record. Even the minute characteristics 

 of the antennte and palpi, pointed out by Lord Walsingham in ahscondi- 

 telfa, are found identically in the specimens bred from Amjjelopsis. 



I have seen specimens of this species from New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Maryland, District of Columbia. Virginia, West Virginia, and 

 Missouri. 



ARISTOTELIA MINIMELLA Chambers. 



Gelechia minimcUa Chambers, Can. Ent., VI, 1874, p. 243; Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., 



IV, 1878, p. 145.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor..Am., No. 5411,1891. 

 Aristotelia minimella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5586, 1903. 



Type no. 455 in the U. S. National Museum, labeled bj^ Chambers 

 and received from him as type of Geleehia minimella, is, together 

 with two similar types in Cambridge, the only authentic material 

 left by Chambers of this species. 



All three are in bad condition, but 1 have saved for posterity the 

 loose wings of one side of the type in the National Museum on a slide, 

 which, under the microscope, shows that the specimen is a true Aris- 

 totelia. 



I believe that the Cambridge specimens are identical, but their con- 

 dition does not permit certainty- However, under the circumstances 

 I feel justitied to hold the National Museum specimen as the type, 

 thus enabling us to put down the species as a known quantity instead 

 of as an uncertain, name belonging to a valueless description. 



1 have received specimens of this Arhtotdta reared from oak by 

 Miss Mary Murtfeldt at Kirkwood, Missouri. 



The types are from Texas. In the National INIuseum are specimens 

 from New Jersey (Kearfott) and District of Columbia (Busck). 



ARISTOTELIA PHYSALIELLA Chambers. 



Gelechia physaliella Chambers, Can. Ent., IV, 1872, p. 173; Cinn. Quart. Jour. 

 Sc, II, 1875, p. 238; Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., Ill, 1877, p. 128; IV, 1878, 

 pp. 117, 145.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5446, 1891. 



Aristotelia physaliella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5587, 1903. 



Type No. 457 in the U. S. National Museum, received from Cham- 

 bers and labeled in his handwriting, undoul)tedlv represent this spe- 

 cies. I have met with no other specimens in other collections. 



Hahitat. — Kentuck}", Arizona. (Chambers.) 



Food 2>lant. — Physalis vlscosa. (Chambers.) 



ARISTOTELIA DISCONOTELLA Chambers. 



Gelechia disconoteUa Chambers, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, pp. 86, 143.— 



Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 5354, 1891. 

 Aristotelia disconoteUa Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5588, 1903. 



The type of this species with Chambers' handwriting on the label 



