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of the maculate bands of the primaries. In H. Montanus, the me- 

 dian band starts independently from the costa, but joins the sec- 

 ond submarginal band before it reaches the internal margin. In 

 the present species, the oblique maculate bands, which are 4 in 

 number, are independent and parallel throughout their whole 

 course. The insect has a brighter and more distinctly brown 

 color also, though this can hardly be regarded as a character of 

 value. 



Contra Costa Co., Cal. 



Types, ? S Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



Hepialus Anceps, //>. Edw. n. sp. (?) 



Also closely allied to H. montanus, but of a much redder 

 color, and with 3 bands instead of 4 as in H. Montanus, and H. 

 Rectus. These 3 bands are distinct and independent of each other. 

 The costal margins of both wings are very distinctly reddish 

 brown, as are also the fringes, while in the former species, they 

 are concolorous with the wings. 



4 ? 2 <^. Mendocino, Co., Cal. 



Types. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



Hepialus Inutilis. Nf. Edw. n. sp. 



A small and obscure species, the size of of H. Modestus, //)/. 

 Edw. and H. Lenzii Behrens, It is dark stone color over the 

 whole upper and lower surface. On the primaries above are 

 some scattered white scales, forming an indistinct oblique double 

 band, and beneath are also a few irregularly distributed whitish 

 scales. It thus differs considerably from H. Modestus, in which 

 the wings are concolorous throughout, without any trace of mark- 

 ings. 



I ? I ^ Summit, Sier. Nev. Cal. 



Types. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



NOTES ON FITCH'S SPECIES OF TORTRICIDS. 



By Prof. C. H. Fernald, State -College, Orono, Me. 



The late Dr. Asa Fitch has described several species of the 

 Tortricidae, some of which entomologists have failed to recognize. 

 In his Second Report (Trans. N. Y. State Ag. Soc. 1855, P- 473). 

 he described Bracliytacnia Malana, which has since been referred 

 to the genus NolapJiana among the Noctuids. Immediately fol- 

 lowing this, on page 476, he described another species under the 

 name of BracJiytaenia Triqnctrana, which he said was closely re- 

 lated to Malana. If he was correct, of course it does not belong 

 to the Tortricidce ; but the description, though short, is quite 

 suggestive of some species of Tcras. 



In his Third Report (Trans. N. Y. State Ag. Soc, 1856, p. 

 357), Dr. Fitch gave us his description of Crcesia Persicana, and 



