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ing to Trlchotajyhe, is not pointed, but rounded. It is a matter of taste 

 where the extreme point is, and it can just as well be said that veins 

 7 and 8 go to costa, as is characteristic for the entire family Gdechildae,. 



Chambers' figure of the venation of this species^ is wrong in several 

 points besides the one in hindwing, corrected by Chambers in the mar- 

 gin of H. Edwards' copy and recorded by Mr. William Bentenmidler.^ 

 The form of the wing is not correct, the stalk of veins 2 and 3 in fore- 

 wings is longer than represented in the figure and vein 8 is omitted. 



All the specimens I have met with came from Texas. 



TRICHOTAPHE CONDALIAVORELLA Busck. 



Trichotaphe coiuldliavorella Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., XXIII, 1900, p. 232; 

 Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5666, 1902.— Dyar, Proc. Eiit. Soc:. Waah., IV, 

 1901, p. 473. 



Ty2)e.—^o. 4940, U.S.N.M. 

 Food plant. — Condalia ferrea. 

 Habitat. — Palm Beach, Florida. 



TRICHOTAPHE CHAMBERSELLA Murtfeldt. 



Gelechia chamberscUa Murtfeldt, Can. Ent., VI, 1874, p. 222; Can. Ent., XIII, 



1881, p. 242.— Chambers, Cinn. Quart. Journ. Sci., II, 1875, p. 240; Bull. 



U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, pp. 116, 142.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., 



No. 5336, 1891. 

 Gelechia insequepuhella Chambers, Cinn. Quart. Journ. Sci., II, 1875, p. 239; Bull. 



U. S. Geol. Surv., IV, 1878, p. 144.— Riley, Smith's List Lep. Bor. Am., No. 



5388, 1891. 

 Trichotaphe chambersella Busck, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5667, 1902. 



There may be some question as to the right of giving Miss Murt- 

 feldt's name priority; but inasmuch as she certainly had her name in 



; - print (though without description of the species) and inasmuch as her 

 biological note on the food plant given at that time really is of quite 

 as much value in recognizing the species as Chambers' mere excuse 

 for a description, I give her name preference, the more so because it 

 surely was Chambers' inexcusable fault that a synonym was made, 



I and because only through Miss Murtfeldt has the species and its 



[ synonjany been finally cleared up. 



i It appears from correspondence I have had with Miss Murtfeldt 

 that she sent the first specimen bred by her to Chambers for determi- 

 nation; that he pronounced it a new species and agreed that Miss ]\Iurt- 

 feldt should name it after him; that he thereafter, on the single 

 specimen received from Miss ]\Iurtfeldt, made a new species, inhwpie- 

 lyulvella., forgetting or mistaking the identity of the specimen in such 

 a degree that he, on the very next page, mentions having received 

 such a specimen and compares it with his amhrosixella. 

 This single original type specimen is still found in Cambridge in 



» Journ. Cinn. Soc. Nat. Hist., II, p. 202, fig. 13. ^Ent. Am., V, p. 37. 



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