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Zinck. By some slip, Prof. Grote, in his New Check-List, has put his 

 Crambus goodcllianus as a sj^non^m of C. Plejadellus, to which it has no 

 resemblance. 

 * Chilo Plejadellus, Zincken, Germ. Mag. IV, p. 251 (1821). 



Crambus Plejadellus, Zeller. Chil. et Cramb. , p. 26 (1863). 



Diphyx prolatella, Grote, Bull. U. S. Geo. Sur. VI, p. 273 (1881). 



Chilo otyzceellus, Riley, Rept. Dept. Ag. for 188 1-2, p. 135 (1882.?). 



This species belongs to the genus Chilo and should be known by 

 the name of Chilo plejadellus, Zinck. 



The genus Diphryx was established for an imperfect female of this 

 species, but since more perfect examples do not differ structurally from 

 the type of Chilo, the generic name Diphryx cannot be used. Prof. Riley 

 was led into tbe'^Tor of redescribing this species, partly by my inability 

 at the time to say posidvely that it was Grote's species, and partly be- 

 cause Grote expressed the opinion that it was not his species. Prof. 

 Riley states concerning this insect : "It is in fact, as we have always felt, 

 congeneric with the larger sugar-cane and corn-borers treated of in the 

 last annual report of the Entomologist under the generic n^LVCxQ. Diatrcea.'' 

 In this, Prof. Riley is mistal^n, since D. saccharalis. Fab., has no ocelli, 

 and the venation of tbe^j^vings is quite different from C. oryzceellus, Riley, 

 which has ocelli. T/he^ diiferences have long been considered of generic 

 value by every workVr*on Ae Microlepidoptera. 



Zeller in his Monogfaph has made many errors on the synonomy of 

 our CrambidcE, and Grote was apparently led by him into some of the 

 same errors. The difficulty was in not being able to determine the spe- 

 cies of Clemens. C. involuteUits and piilchellus are not synonyms of 

 leachellus, but of prcp/ectcllus. 



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Miss Emily L. Morton, in collecting larvae of Lepidoptera last year, 

 put a mixed lot in a breeding box. Among others emerging afterwards 

 in the imago form, was Aleiia argillacea, Hb., the cotton worm. As 

 beyond a penadventure none of the larvte w-ere taken from the cotton 

 plant, it may be considered proved beyond question that the larvEe feed, 

 in the North at least, upon one food plant other than cotton. 



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A novel exhibibition has during the last month been given to the 

 people of New York and vicinity. Mr. Neumoegen, of the Brooklyn 

 Society, has, as is well known, an unrivalled collection of Native and 

 Exotic Lepidoptera. This has been on exhibition at the Eden Musee 

 and has excited a very great deal of interest in the city. 



