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S. ALICULELLA Hist. 



The type of this species must be restricted to the specimens in 

 the Hulst Coll., the types in the Neumoegen and Hy. Edwards' Col- 

 lections belonging to the closely allied furciferella Dyar which has 

 the round discal spot jointed by a black streak to the t. a. line. 



S. BIFASC1ELLA Hist. 



This species and nogalesella Dyar are extremely closely related; 

 apart from the fact that the hind wings of bifasciella are slightly 

 deeper in color we can point to no feature that would separate them; 

 breeding will be necessary to show whether we are dealing with good 

 species or slight varietal forms of one species. 



S. LACTEELLA Hist. 



The single 9 type of this species seems to be a better preserved 

 specimen of what Hulst had previously described as Nephopteryx 

 gilvibasella from a worn 5 ; the type localities of both species are 

 given as Cent. Texas and both types are in the Hulst Coll. 



S. ODIOSELLA Hist. 



With regard to the type specimen of this species we are again 

 met with one of those puzzles which must be credited to the inaccur- 

 acies of Dr. Hulst. The original description calls for a $ from Colo- 

 rado as type, Hulst's revision states that Texas is the type locality 

 and the S type in the Hulst Coll. bears a label 'Blanco Co., Texas' ; 

 it agrees excellently with the original description so we see no reason 

 for not regarding it as type, but cannot say which locality is correct 

 as we have no specimens of the species which seems closely related 

 to bakerella Dyar. 



S. CARNEELLA Hist. 



New Mexico is given as the type locality for the species but 

 this is changed by Dr. Hulst in the revision to Maine and Massachu- 

 setts with a doubtful N. Mex. 9 associated; the type in the Hulst 

 Coll. bears no label but appears to agree with the description; we 

 have two specimens from Manitoba and imagine the localities given in 

 the revision are therefore more likely to be correct than the one 

 originally cited. 



S. SEMIOBSCURELLA Hist. 



This species has been generally confused with Meroptera pravella 

 Grt. and in the Hulst Coll. most of the specimens under this latter 



