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tongue probably broken off. Thorax cinereous. Fore wings dirty whitish along 

 the dorsal margin below the fold, sparsely dusted with cinereous scales. Brown 

 above the fold, much sprinkled with cinereous and rosy iridescent scales; a broad 

 oblique dirty whitish streak from the costal cilia before the apex, containing a 

 line of brown scales, meets a similar but less conspicuous streak from the dorsal 

 margin at an acute angle before the apex, in which are two dark lines, (meat the 

 base, the other at the ends of the apical cilia: within the lower margin of the 

 darker portion of the wing are two considerable tufts of raised scales of the gen- 

 eral hue, the first slightly before the middle, the second nearly halfway from this 

 to the apex: dorsal cilia cinereous. Hind wings cinereous, with a slight greyish 

 iridescent tinge; cilia cinereous. Abdomen missing. Expanse 20 millim. 



This species is nearly allied to Laverna idpei. Zell. ( Wocke, Cat. 

 2569). 



One in Prof. Fernald's collection.* 



225,226,645,646. Laverna? eloisella. 



Laverna eloisella, Clemens, Proc. Ac. Xat. Sci. Philad. I860, p. 171 ; Tin. Nor. 

 Am. p. 1.31 ; Can. Ent, ix. p. 74. 



Laverna? cenotherceella, Chambers, Can. Ent. vii. p. 30. 



PhyUocnistis magnatella, Zeller, Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1873, p. 315. 



Laverna? magnatella. Chambers, Can. Ent. ix. pp. 73,74; Bull. U. S. Gr. & G. 

 Surv. 1878, iv. p. 152. 



My notes on this species confirm my belief that it is the original 

 Laverna. eloisella, Clem. Two specimens in Prof. Fernald's collection 

 are labelled "from stems of (Enuthera. Orono." I have received it from 

 Miss Murtfeldt; and have taken it in Oregon on. Rouge River." 



When looking over Dr. Clemens's types at Philadelphia, I made the 

 following note on Laverna eloisella: — "Not a Lavoua. Only two 

 wings, both worn, remain. Identical with my two from Rouge River.'' 



In my notes on Mr. Robinson's collection in the Central Park Mu- 

 seum, New York. I find — "Clemens's description of L. eloisella seems 

 to have been taken from a worn specimen. 



I confess there is much difficulty in reconciling the original descrip- 

 tion with the specimens now before me; but it' the wings 1 saw at 

 Philadelphia were those of Clemens's type, they belong without doubt 

 to the same species. Mr. Chambers. Can. Ent. ix. p. 71. write.-. " 1 

 have never seen L. eloise.l/a, Clem., but 1 suspect that it will be found 

 congeneric with this species" (Laverna? magnatella). The specimens 

 vary in the extent and intensity of their different markings, and. like all 

 internal feeders, are very subject to injury by grease. 



■■ Habitat. Labrador. Collected by Mr. William Cowper.— C. H. PkunaLD. 



