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of Capua semiferana ; Grapholita abnegatana, if the same, is 

 a red variety, and Tinea admotella has much more robust and 

 longer legs, so that I can hardly believe it to belong to the same 

 genus ; still, to a man who holds the view that " the legs and 

 abdomen very rarely afford any characters worthy of notice," 

 this diffei-ence may seem quite unimportant. 



I do not accept the synonymy of Adoxophycs condifana ; 

 I hold that, although Pavdemis gamsana and Conchylis mar- 

 ginana, are identical, they are distinct from A . conditana and 

 from T. favescens; and I much doubt the identity of the two 

 latter ; as to Pyrgotis ! ptivplryreana and Capua ! ! a('ristana, 

 of Meyrick, being not only congeneric, but conspecific, with 

 Walker's Adoxophyes conditaiw, I leave so reliable an authority 

 as a man who refers specimens of the same species to three 

 genera to decide. 



Of Teras cnneiqera, I\Ir. jMeyrick has seen two examples, 

 and he has no doubt, consequently, of their identity with 

 Ilarmoliiga ohlongana ; yet they differ from it in a character 

 more pronoimced than that used by Meyrick himself to dis- 

 tinguish Tortrix pldlopana from T. pir.toriana (see page 50) — 

 "Posterior costal spot distinct," inasmuch as T. cuncigera has 

 not a costal spot only, but a broad triangular patch of colour 

 and a dilkrcnt outline (f wirig\ a character wliicli I diffVr from 

 Mr. Meyrick in regarding as of some impoitance. 



One of the most startling discoveries that I made in going 

 through Mr. Mey rick's paper was on page 47, where I found 

 that this author at one time regarded a generic identification in 

 ray paper as more correct than one of Zeller's ; indeed, lie 

 actually agreed with me in referring a species to Cacoecia; still 

 more surprising is it, however, to find, on tl^e next page, that 

 in the case of C. excessana, Mr. Me}'rick is even now at amity 

 with me, I mean of course entomologically ; for it would be 

 absurd for those whose views dift'er in matters of science to 

 be any the less friendly as men; as touching the synonymy of 

 C. excessana^ I believe all the species Teras excessana, Walk., 

 Teras biguttana, Walk., Tortrix taipana, Feld., and Cacoecia 

 inana, Butl., to be distinct, and not (as my excellent friend 

 believes) sports of "a very varialile species," 



