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in several particulars; breeding from larvae on sycamore would of 
course settle the matter. Dr. Dyar (Proc. Wash. Ent. Soc. VII, 31) 
has made a pretty mess of the synonymy of this species and shown 
such a woeful lack of knowledge concerning the true species as to 
shame the veriest tyro in entomology. He lists as synonyms the fol- 
lowing 4 species—asperatella Clem., eapandens Wlk., taleolalis Hist. 
and fuscolotella Rag. Asperatella Clem. with expandens Wlk. as a 
synonym is a totally different species, almost twice the size and quite 
differently marked; Dyar’s ab. clemensalis of this species, with ochre- 
ous base of primaries, is in the Hulst Coll. marked “nephelotella Hlst. 
Type’; as however the locality label on this so-called type is ‘Blanco 
Co., Texas”, and the original description calls for “Penn.” we have 
doubts as to the authenticity; further study is necessary. 
Taleolalis Hist. is a synonym of subcanalis Wik. as far as it is 
possible to identify Walker’s type specimen. We will make further 
remarks on these species later. Fuscolotella Rag. is a very good 
Arizona species; we have a series agreeing with Ragonot’s type at 
Paris, a single ¢ marked “Ariz. (Morrison)”; it is smaller and 
blacker than asperatella with shorter palpi and approaches closest to 
tiltella Hulst. 
TETRALOPHA MELANOGRAMMOS Zell. 
The type of this species is a ¢ in the Cambridge Museum and 
through the kindness of Mr. Henshaw we have received an excellent 
photograph of the same together with the information that the sec- 
ondaries are “pale whitish yellow, somewhat darker towards outer 
margin’. We have identified a series from Kerrville, Texas, as be- 
longing to this species; our é’s usually have a fairly distinct s. t. line 
on secondaries; only the faintest trace of this shows in Zeller’s type, 
but otherwise our series matches excellently. 
TETRALOPHA SUBCANALIS WIk. 
The single type in the British Museum is without head or abdomen 
and is worn, but the secondaries appear evenly smoky; we think it is a 
2; it agrees in maculation with a é specimen in the Berlin Museum 
from Dallas, Texas, marked by Zeller melanogrammos but this speci- 
men has the secondaries evenly smoky and should, we think, be referred 
to subcanalis Wk. 
In the Hulst collection the single ? type of taleolalis labelled “Col.” 
is also listed as a synonym of melanogrammos and agrees with the 
