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writing marked Schcenobtus ckmenscUiis Rob. It is evident that Robin- 

 son founii this specimen and considered it the Clemens type after he 

 luul pubHshed his paper. 



1 have four male examples before me which liavc an expanse of 

 wings 22 to 24 mm. The head, palj)i, thorax and fore wings are of the 

 color of burnt umber, lighter along the middle of the thorax and hinder 

 part of the fore wings. There is a minute dark brown point at the lower 

 outer angle of the cell and the terminal points are of the same color. 

 The surface of the wing is s])rinkled with umber colored atoms and 

 there is an obscure oblique dark stripe from near the apex not reaching 

 across the wing. The hind wings are yellowish white with minute 

 terminal dark dots in two of the specimens but wanting in the type, 

 underside of the wing lighter than above. 



While I am disposed to believe with Robinson that this is the type 

 of Clemens, I should not be greatly surprised if it eventually proved 

 to be oiily an extreme variety of S. longirostreUiis, Clem. 



S. longirostrellus, Clem. 



I have eleven males and three females of this species before me, in- 

 cluding the types of Clemens and the material that Robinson had when 

 he made his studies on this species. I also have four specimens of the 

 European S. forficellus, to which it is closely related. 



Expanse of wings, 22 to 24 mm. in the males ; 25 to 27 mm. in the females. 



Head, palpi and thorax straw yellow, tinged more or less with fuscous on the 

 side. Fore wings in the temale straw yellow, sparsely sprinkled with fuscous dots in 

 one specimen, with a terminal row of brown dots, a similarly colored one on the lower 

 an:.^le ot the cell, one on the outer third of the fold and another on the fold near the 

 middle of the wing. An oblique brown stripe extends from the apex down to the 

 outer spot on the fold. Fore wings in the male, yellowish white, more or less sparsely 

 sprinkled with fuscous atoms. The space above the subcostal vein from the base to 

 the outer fourth of the costa is more or less tinged with fuscous. There are three 

 brown dots on the fold : one near the base, the second a little within the middle, and 

 the third on the outer third of the fold. A similar dot rests on the lower angle of the 

 cell al the outer end of the median vein and in some specmiens there is one on the 

 upper angle. A minute brown dot rests on the end of veins i to 9. An oblique stripe 

 of the same color extends from the apex to the dot on the outer third of the fold and 

 there is sometimes a curved shade band between this and the outer margin. An 

 oblique line nearly parallel to the apical stripe extends from the dot near the middle 

 of the fold up and out to near the middle of the cell where it forms an acute angle 

 and then extends obliquely up and in till it is finally lost in the costal shade. 



Hind wings cream white and without markings in the females but with a terminal 

 row of dark points in the males and in one specimen there are two faint, parallel 

 fuscous bands from the costa just within the apex, which do not reach beyond vein 2. 

 Underside of the wings pale fuscous with the terminal points repeated. 



I can find no constant differences between this species and the 

 European yb;y?c^///«, in the material before me, and believe they will 

 yet prove to be identical. 



Perstrialis, Hiib. = ?nacri?teUus, Zell. , and opalescalis, Hulst, do 

 not belong to this genus. 



