press upon them the fact that I had come all the way from America to 

 see those two insects ami that the proper th.ng to do was to make an ex- 

 haustive search. At last they concluded to look, and after searching 

 for four hours, these t\pes were found and brought to me. 



Imagine my astonishment to discover that Elndia fiimalis Gn. was 

 our well kiidun Butis hadipennis Grote, and that Isoplervx app/icalis Gn. 

 was Isoplcrv.v Aeniolalis Hu'st. 



It was true thai Walker had names for nearly everythmg and where 

 there was any doubt, he had given them several, but I had now obtained 

 the oldest names and was sure of my ground. I could now ascend the 

 Eiffel Tower in a happ\- frame of mind. 



The jouniey into Switzerland along through the Alps and down the 

 Danube to Vienna was a pleasure trip, a constant succession of enchant- 

 ing views of the wildest natural scenery. 



My object in going to Vienna was to see the t}'pes of Lederer's 

 Pyrahds. These were in several collections, all of which have finally 

 been deposited in the Royal jNIuseum except a few still retained in the 

 collection of Felder in Vienna and a fevv' in the collection of Zeller now 

 in the British INIuseum. Some of Letlerer's types have been destroyed, 

 but I was able to see nearly all of his North American types. 



The more I study the work of Lederer, with a knowledge of what 

 his species really were, the less do I esteem it. I have waded through 

 the introduction of his work on the Pyralidse, which is devoted largely 

 to disparaging the work of his predecessors, especially that of Guenee, 

 and am led almost irresistably to the conclusion that when an author 

 expends a large amount of his vital force in berating others, he has so 

 much the less real force to put into the scientific part of his work. 



I visiied Dresden and Berlin with the hope that I should find some 

 relics of the Hiibner or Zincken collections, but I could find no trace of 

 them, and am inclined to believe that they are entirely destroyed. 



However this may ultimately prc^ve, I believe I have been able to 

 determine all of Zincken's North American Crambidx- and nearly all of 

 Hl'ibner's North American Micros. 



There is one species of Geyer to which I desire to call the attention 

 of our entomologists, and that is figured in Hiibner's Zutrage, Figs. 733 

 and 734, under the name of Eucosma tuberculana from Georgia, pre- 

 sumably a Tortricid but I am verv sure it is not. The figure of it in the 

 copy of the Zutrage in the Library of the Huff"alo Academy of Sciences, 

 looks like a Hvdrocampa, but the figure in the copv of the Zutrage in the 

 British INIuseum looks more like Euslru/ia. I feel confident that the thing 

 is a Lepidopteron, but be_\ond that I do not care to express a positive 

 opinion. 



