June, 1860. 153 



little astonished to find so minute a creature common to the 

 continents of Europe and America. During the coming 

 season I will endeavour to record minutely the history of the 

 preparatory states of the American species. 



[Here follow descriptions of several Phalenites and 

 Pyralid^e, viz : — 



Dory odes acutaria, Hydrocampa ? for -mo salts, 



D. spadaria, Cataclysta fulicalis, 



Desmia maculalis, C. ? helopalis, and 



Eustales Tedyuscongalis, Sironia maculalis. 

 Two pages are also devoted to a consideration of the difficulty 

 caused to the American Entomologist, in the attempt to as- 

 certain the American Lepidoptera described by M. Guenee 

 by " the omission of synopses of genera," which, " when the 

 number of them in his family groups calls for such tables, as 

 it does so frequently, is a most serious, not to say, unpardon- 

 able, defect in the six volumes published by M. Guenee."] 



