172 



secte qui devore les grains de I'Angoumois. Par Duhamel et Tillet. 12mo. 

 Paris, 1762, with Plates. 



Alucita cerealella Olivier, Encycl. Meth.,Insectes, IV, pp. 114, 121 (1789). 



(Ecophora. La teigne des hies Latr., Regne Animal, 1" edition. III, p. 

 580 (1817). 



a^copliora granella Latr., Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXIV, 226 (1818). 



Tinea Jiordei Kirby and Spence, Introd. to Ent., 3d edit., I, pp. 173, 

 175 (1818). The same. 5th edit., I, p. 174 (1828). 



YpsoIopJius graneUus Kirhy and Spence, Introd., 5th edit., I, p. 174 (1828). 



Alucita cerealella Tigny and Guerin, Hist. Nat. Ins., IX, 298, 301 (1830), 



(Ecojiliora cerealella Lam., Hist. Nat. Anim. sans V^ert., 2° ed,, IV, 

 189 (1835), 



Tinea cerealella Oken, Allg. Naturg., V, 3, p. 1204-7 (1836). 



(Ecophora.- Alucite des grains Godt. and Dup., Hist. Nat. Lep. de 

 France, XI, 450 (1838). 



Tinea granella Westwood, Introduction, II, p. 410 (1840). 



(Ecophora cerealella Harris, New England Farmer, XIX, 800 and 306 

 (March, 1841). 



Anacampsis cerealella Harris, Report on Insects of Massachusetts, p. 

 365 (1841). The same. Treatise on Insects, etc., p. 365 (1842). 



In the little box sent to you there were some other insects. 

 A mutilated specimen or fragments of a moth, the generical 

 name of which I should be very glad to know, and also whether 

 the species is new to you. Only two specimens have been met 

 with, both taken at New Haven. There was also the larva 

 case of the species of Porrectaria? Haworth, Ornix? Dupon- 

 chel, a very common insect on fences ; but the moth I have not 

 succeeded in rearing. 



DOUBLEDAY TO HARKIS. 



Brixton, April 2, 1847. 



The genera of Tineidce arc a mass of confusion. In the Tor-- 

 trices and Tinea', Stephens, Curtis, etc. have made endless gen- 

 era without any good characters. At least one half their 



