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being an enlargement of the basal antennal joint which is scaled; 

 nyssaecolella Dyar and subtinctclla Rag. must be removed from Ta- 

 coma and may be placed temporarily in the genus Nephopteryx. 



Ambesa busckella Dyar. 



The species falls as a synonym of Glyptocera consobrinella Zell. 



Nephopteryx modestella Hist. 



The $ type in the Hulst Coll. is a specimen from Newton High- 

 lands, Mass. (Barnes) and is merely a very worn oralis Pack., the 

 latter name having priority. 



Neph. furfurella Hist. 



The species was described from 2 $ 2 9 from Florida and 

 Texas ; the type in the Hulst Coll. is a 5 labelled Florida and a similar 

 one is in the Neumoegen Coll. ; a $ from Texas stands under the 

 same name but has no type label. The species is not a Nephopteryx 

 but an Elasmo palpus and the same as that described later by Hulst as 

 floridellus; all the types we have seen are conspecific but the name 

 should be held to the specimen in the Hulst Coll. 



Neph. rhypodella Hist. 



The original description calls for a single $ from Oregon as 

 type ; in his revision Hulst gives an entirely different description, mak- 

 ing curvatella Rag. a synonym and mentioning Illinois as locality; in 

 the Hulst Coll. is a 2 'type' with no locality label (merely 'No. 42') 

 which appears to agree (it is worn) with the description of the revision 

 and with Ragonot's figure of curvatella pretty well, but which cer- 

 tainly does not fit the original description. What the true rhypodella 

 may be we are unable to say ; probably material from Orgeon will 

 one day solve the mystery ; in any case we would separate curvatella 

 Rag. as a good species ; the type, judging from the Monograph, came 

 from California and we have a good series before us from that state 

 which agrees with Hulst's spurious type of rhypodella and which is 

 probably the true curvatella. 



Salebria triplagiella Dyar. 



In the National Museum this is placed as a synonym of Laodamia 

 fusca Haw. and apparently correctly so ; it will at least be a synonym 

 of moestella Wlk. described from Northern Canada. 



