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press upon them the fact that I had come all the way from America to 
see those two insects and that the proper thing to do was to make an ex- 
haustive search. At last they concluded to look, and afier searching 
for four hours, these types were found and brought to me, 
Imagine my astonishment to discover that Lbulia fumalis Gn. was 
our well known Bots badipennis Grote, and that Lsopferyx applicalis Gn. 
was Tsoptervx veniolalis Hu'st. 
It was true that Walker had names for nearly everything and where 
there was any doubt, he had given them several, but I had now obtained 
the oldest names and was sure of my ground. I could now ascend the 
Eiffel Tower in a happy frame of mind. 
The journey into Switzerland along through the Alps and down the 
Danube to Vienna was a pleasure trip, a constant succession of enchant- 
ing views of the wildest natural scenery. 
My object in going to Vienna was to see the types of Lederer’s 
Pyralids. ‘hese were in several collections, all of which have finally 
been deposited in the Royal Museum except a few still retained in the 
collection of Felder in Vienna and a few in the collection of Zeller now 
in the British Museum. Some of Lederer’s types have been destroyed, 
but I was able to see nearly all of his North American types. 
The more I study the work of Lederer, with a knowledge of what 
his species really were, the less do I esteem it. I have waded through 
the introduction of his work on the Pyralide, which is devoted largely 
to disparaging the work of his predecessors, especially that of Guenée, 
and am led almost irresistably to the ‘conclusion that when an author 
expends a large amount of his vital force in berating others, he has so 
much the less real force to put into the scientific part of his work. 
I visited Dresden and Berlin with the hope that I should find some 
relics of the Hitbner or Zincken collections, but I could find no trace of 
them, and am inclined to believe that they are entirely destroyed. 
However this may ultimately prove; I believe I have been able to 
determine all of Zincken’s North American Crambidz and nearly all of 
Hibner’s North American Micros. 
There is one species of Geyer to which I desire to call the attention 
of our entomologists, and that is figured in Hiibner’s Zutrage, Figs. 733 
and 734, under the name of Lucosma ‘uberculana from Georgia, pre- 
sumably a Tortricid but I am very sure it is not. The figure of it in the 
copy of the Zutrage in the Library of the Buffalo Academy of Sciences, 
looks like a Aydrocampa, but the figure in the copy of the Zutrage in the 
British Museum looks more like Zus¢rotia. I feel confident that the thing 
is a Lepidopteron, but beyond that I do not care to express a positive 
opinion. 
