May, '02] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 131 



whose larvae are leaf miners. Lord Walsingham has erected a 

 new genus for two of the American species, i. e. , Epimartyria 

 {E. pardella Wlsm., and E. auricrinella Wlsm.) and which 

 genus in some respects Tutt considers more archaic than 

 Micropteryx. 



It is quite probable that my species is Eriocraiiia grisco-capi- 

 tella Wlsm. , as for several years I have taken a specimen of this 

 late in April or very early in May, or it may be another species 

 which is yet unidentified, of which I took one specimen in mid- 

 summer two years ago. 



Now that we have the clue I hope our American species will 

 be rapidly overhauled and their life histories fully known. I 

 will add that about the same time I found the chestnut 

 miners I found similar mines and larvae on oak ; these may 

 be the same species ; I did not take care of them and made no 

 notes, thinking it impossible they could be anything else than 

 Coleopterous. 



A word about the perfect insects of these group may be of inter- 

 est. My first specimen was taken just about at dusk April 21. 

 It doubtless was resting on or near the ground. I caught it as 

 it was fij'ing upwards in an almost vertical line, flight quite 

 slow and seemingly laborious. The second specimen (and I 

 think a different species) was taken about 8.30 p. m. about the 

 middle of July on the wire mosquito screen enclosing my piazza, 

 attracted by a lamp which was within. The third specimen 

 was taken May 4, about 1 1 a. m. It is the same species as the 

 first and was disturbed from the ground or low down on a tree 

 trunk. As a violent wind was blowing it was impossible to 

 observe its natural flight and it was captured with difficulty. 



I saw a fourth specimen resting on the bole of a small beech 

 tree about five feet from the ground ; the morning sun, about 



II a. m., was shining on it, and it sparkled like an emerald 

 from the light reflected from the exquisite metallic green of its 

 wings. I attempted to place a small cyanide bottle over it, 

 but before my hand was within a foot of it, it jumped like a leaf 

 hopper and was out of sight in an instant. Numbers one and 

 three were captured (and number four seen) in a rather open 

 woods, principally hard and soft woods and a great abundance 

 of shrubbery, on the Watchung Mountains, back of Montclair, 

 at an elevation of five or six hundred feet above sea level. 



