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PAPERS BY DR. B. CLEMENS. 



[The 6th of Dr. Brackenridge Clemens' Contributions to 

 American Lepidopterology, contained in the Proceedings of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, August, 

 1860, pp. 345 — 362, is entirely devoted to the ToRTRiciDiE, 

 which are reputed by Dr. Clemens as a family of the 

 Tineina — he there describes the following forty species, 

 viz.: — 



Antithesia nimbatana, 



A. bipartitana, 



A. ? coruscana, 



Lozotania Rosaceana, 



L.fervidana, 



Peronea Viburnana, 



Platynota sentana, 



P. Jiavedana, 



Anchylopera Spire&foliana, 



A. nubeculana, 



A. Platanana, 



A. striatana, 



A. costomaculana, 



Dysodia oculatana, 



Stigmonota inter stinctana, 



Halo not a simulana, 



H. incanana, 



Ephippiphora parmatana, 



Amorbia humerosana, 



Crcesia ? reticulatana, 



C. ? sulfureana, 



Pcecilo chroma ? dorsisigna- 



tana, 

 P. ? similiana, 

 Monosphragis otiosana, 

 Lozopera? angustana, 

 Arggrolepia? lepidana, 

 Coelostathma discopunctana, 

 Smicrotes peritana, 

 Exartema nitidana, 

 E. permundana, 

 E. versicolor ana, 

 E. inornatana, 

 E. fasciatana, 

 Hedya Pyrifoliana, 

 H. Scudderiana, 

 Bactra? argutana, 

 En dop iza ? Vitean a, 

 E. ? agilana, 

 Carpocapsa Pomonella, 



and 

 loplocama formosana. 



The following concluding remarks on the family TortricibvE 

 are too interesting to be omitted here.] 



This group of insects is probably the most difficult, in a 

 systematic point of view, and the least interesting family in 



