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brown hairs ; antennae clear yellow, basal joint greyish-brown ; legs 

 pale yellow; body with greyish-brown pubescence; anterior wings 

 brown, clothed and ciliated with yellow, but seen directly from above 

 the hairs appear brown ; posterior wings greyish hyaline, ciliated at 

 the apex. Long, cum alis 7 millimetres. 



Eiver St. La^NTence, Canada (Osten-Sacken). I cannot find the 

 example from "Washington mentioned in the synopsis. I have seen 

 only males. 



Mr. Uhler has sent me a copy of a paper by Mr. Bland, in the 

 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, 1865, viii., p. 144. He bred from 

 cases of SelicopsycJie some small Phry(/anides. The first batch sent to 

 me was unfortunately lost en route ; Mr. Fhler has been so kind as to 

 send all that remained, but the little phial was broken when it 

 arrived. I have carefully examined the fragments, and am much 

 pleased to find, firstly, cases perfectly similar to that described by me 

 as Helicopsyclie glabra ; secondly, two pupa-skins ( (J ? ) with strong 

 mandibles, similar to the pupa of jff. minima, I.e. p. 126,3; and thirdly, 

 a male imago in very bad condition, which I think is identical with my 

 Notidolia horealis ; any way it is very similar, and I think that further 

 researches, and examples with the clothing intact, will prove the correct- 

 ness of my suspicions. I do not see the small black baton on the penul- 

 timate ventral segment, but it is perhaps broken. I repeat that at any 

 rate ^. horealis is closely related, and belongs to the same genus. 



2. — S. lutea, Hageu. 

 JVbtidohia lutea, Hag. Syn. North Amer. Neurop. p. 271, 3. 



Very similar to S.. horealis in form, but bright yellow ; antennae 

 slightly annulated with brown; maxillary palpi ciliated with dark 

 brown internally ; legs yellow ; anterior wings clothed and ciliated with 

 bright orange yellow ; posterior wings yellowish hyaline. Male and 

 female (the male in bad condition). Long, cum alis 7 mill. 



Haiti. 



Notidohia pyraloides. Walker ; Hag. North Amer. Syn. p. 271, 2, 

 belongs to the genus Anisocentropus, McLachlan. 



Mr. Bland's discovery is very precious, for during twenty years I 

 have sought in vain to clear up the mystery of these Valvata-YikG cases. 



The genus Helicopsyche apparently pertains to the family Seri- 

 costomidce, and is to be placed between Mormonia and Dasystoma. 



It remains to be seen what Phrygnnidon dwells in the cases of the 



