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what this insect might be has been a mystery until recently, when 

 Prof. J. A. Lintner discovered the type among the insects in the 

 collection at Albany, and had the great kindness to send it to me 

 for examination. The original description of this insect is very 

 faulty and misleading, for it gives black as one of the colors on 

 the fore-wings, where it should give brown. This same species 

 was taken by Dr. Packard, in Brunswick, Me., and sent to Dr. 

 Clemens, who described it under the name of Ditula ? Blandana 

 (Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., vol. 3, 1864, p. 515); and in 1869 Dr. 

 Packard himself described it in his Guide, page 335, where he 

 names \t Lozotcenia Fragariaiia ; and in 1875 Prof. Zeller described 

 it in his Beitriige under the name of Tortrix {Argyrotoxa) Coniger- 

 ana. By some oversight. Prof. Zeller placed it in the subgenus 

 Argyrotoxa, when it should have been put in Ptycholoma Steph. 

 As the description of Fitch antedates the others, the insect should 

 be called PtycJiolonia Pcrsicana (Fitch). 



In the same report, page 382, Dr. Fitch described his Lozo- 

 taenia Cerasivorana, which is well known, but should be referred 

 to the genus Cacoecia Hiib. 



On page 459 of the same report, Ephippophora Caryana is 

 described by Fitch ; but Dr. Shimer, not recognizing this, re- 

 described the same species by the name of GrapJiolitlia Caryae 

 (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, vol. 2, p. 394, 1869). 



In 1858, Dr. Fitch, in his Fifth Report, described his Argy- 

 rolepia Quercifoliana (Trans. N. Y. State Ag. Soc, p. 826, and I 

 am indebted to Prof. Lintner for an opportunity of examining 

 the type of this species. Prof. Zeller redescribed the same thing 

 in his Beitriige, in 1875, by the name of Tortrix {Argyrotoxa) Tri- 

 furculana. The species should be called Tortrix Quercifoliana 

 Fitch. 



I am not aware that Dr. Fitch described any other species of 

 the Tortricidac, and these are now all known save Brachytaenia 

 Triguetrana, if indeed this is a Tortricid. 



In the Second Report of Dr. Cyrus Thomas, Entomologist 

 to the State of Illinois, page 1 14, Miss Emma Smith gave the 

 natural history of what she called Argyrolcpia Qjierc if o liana 

 Fitch, including, with notes of her own, the description of 

 Fitch ; and in a foot note by Dr. Thomas it is stated that "Prof. 

 Fernald has identified this as Zeller's Tortrix Trifurculana!* 

 After seeing the above report with this statement, I tried to 

 obtain examples of Miss Smith's insect to see what it really was, 

 and finally succeeded in obtaining it through Prof. Lintner, but 

 it proved to be Tortrix Flaccidana Rob., a very different insect 

 from Quercifoliana Fitch. I am in no way responsible for the 

 identification of Miss Smith's insect, for I never saw an example 

 of it till long after the report was published. 



