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sella according to the key; we have 2 ¢4’s in Coll. Barnes from De- 
catur, Ill., and New Brighton, Pa., which agree with type; the species 
is readily recognizable by the pale reddish basal area, including tuft, 
followed by a dark median band which shades into reddish terminally. 
CARYAE Grote. 
According to Dyar’s table this species is unmarked in the ¢ sex 
beneath ; the actual type lot of specimens in the British Museum shows 
that the ¢ has a short costal black streak and a longer median diffuse 
streak through the cell on primaries with secondaries unmarked; the 
true caryae is evidently what Dyar has identified as caryivorella Rag. 
a much larger species with no trace of red on primaries; the type of 
this latter species being a 2, we had no means of determining the sex- 
marks of the ¢. Caryae Grt. was described from material from 
Mr. Coquillett and Illinois is the type locality (Bull. Geol. Surv. VI, 
590). This spring we bred quite a series from larvae boring in the 
base of the young leaf-stems of shell-bark hickory around Decatur; 
the species is rather dark black-brown with a narrow oblique red line 
bordering the dark scale patch in lower half of wing; the sex dash 
in the é on underside is sometimes rather indistinct and suffused 
when the ground color of the wing is deeper than usual, but is mostly 
quite distinct. 
NEBULELLA Riley. 
We would call Dr. Dyar’s attention to the fact that Riley in the 
original description states (4th. Mo. Rep. p. 42) that the single type 
was bred from crab-apple; this hardly coincides with Dyar’s statement 
(Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. X, 45) that among the specimens of the sup- 
posed nebulella before him ‘4 bred by Dr. Riley on hickory and walnut 
including the type of nebulella”’ were included; we wonder if some of 
Riley’s specimens of juglandis LeBaron could have led to this error; 
in any case it behooves Dr. Dyar to investigate the matter and give us 
some light on the true type of nebulella Riley. 
PyLA AENEOVIRIDELLA Rag. 
The type in the Ragonot Coll. bears the label “Evanston, Wyo., 
14/6, 85”, not N. Y. as erroneously given by Ragonot. One can easily 
understand how “Wyo.” could have been mistaken for ‘““N. Yo.” by 
one not familiar with American states. 
