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The g-eiius is veiy near and correlated with PaJtodoi'a Me3'rick, 

 developed from Aristotelia and diffcrino- mainly in the labia! palpi. 

 This diti'erence has proven eveii less marked than defined by Mr. 

 Meyrick, by the knowledge of allied forms in the American fauna 

 and the consequent widening of the genus PaUodora (p. 775). 



Three species have been described as ParnHui from America, namely: 



1. ApifihttlgeJla Chamliers, afterwards transferred liy ('haml)ers to 

 Gel cell! a. This species is an Aproirrenxi and will be found treated 

 under that genus (p. 840). 



2. Grheivlhi Chambers, afterwards transferred ^^\ C^ianibcrs to 

 Gdechia. This species prol)ably does not belong to either geiuis, but 

 is at present unrecognized and will be found treated under the doul)tful 

 species of Geleclda (p. 890), 



S. Sulsimella Clemens. This species, which was placed with a query 

 in Parasia by Clemens, and which subsequently has been retained 

 there, can not, as the description proves, belong in this genus. It 

 will be found treated under EpUhectis (p. 816). 



Thus the following species is the only representative of the genus 

 Metzneria at present recognized from America. 



METZNERIA LAPPELLA Linnaeus. 



Metzneria lappella SxArDixGER and Rebel, Cat. Lep. Eur., II, No. 2491, 1901. — 

 BuscK, Dyar's List Amer. Lep., No. 5539, 1903. 



This well-known European and Asiatic species, not hitherto recorded 

 from America, has probably within (juite recent j^ears extended its 

 range to this countr}'. 



Two years ago Mr. Samuel Henshaw submitted to me several speci- 

 mens, which he had bred in 1899 from the heads of burdock collected 

 in the swamps around Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1 had no difficulty 

 in referring them to this species, but sent specimens to Mr. Meyrick, 

 in England, for authoritative substantiation, and he kindly informed 

 me that it was lappella Zeller. 



I have also identified it in Professor Fernald-s collection, ])red from 

 burdock in Ontario, Canada. In the U. S. National Museum are, 

 besides the specimen received from Mr. Henshaw, others received from 

 Rev. Thomas W. Fyles, Quebec, Canada, and a large series bred ])y 

 the writer from heads of burdock received from Mr. Arthur Gibson, 

 of the DepartuKMit of Agriculture, Ottawa, C^anada. Several larva are 

 often found in a single head, and from a small handful of heads sent 

 by Mr. CTi})son nearly 100 moths issued. 



The larva is short and thick, yellowish white, with brown head; 

 thoracic feet small, and abdominal legs nearly obsolete. 



The species overwinters as larva and does not pupate before the 

 spring; the imago issues in Ma^' and June. 



