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true of gibsonella, a northern degraded form of edonis, and true also 
to a certain degree of coloradella, a small degenerate form of pexella; 
but the separation of coloradella and pewxella is more apparent than 
real, coloradella being called ‘‘whitish brown,’’ pewella, ‘‘pale 
ocherous.’’ As a matter of fact they are of the same color, colora- 
della being only a smaller, less distinctly marked form. Pectinifer 
Zeller stand under the heading ‘‘fore wing chocolate brown,’’ where- 
as Zeller says in his original description that it is ‘‘bleich ockergelb.”’ 
No mention is made of daeckeellus Kearfott (Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soe., 
XI, 149, 1903), but this is not improbably due to the tacit acceptance 
of its reference to the synonymy of striatella Fernald, which I once 
made to Mr. Kearfott by letter. Mr. Kearfott’s article was pub- 
lished in the Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, and is there- 
fore supposed to have been founded upon museum material. ‘To 
comply with this requirement, the author of the paper deposited 
types of many of his species in the collection. What was my surprise 
to discover that of five ecotypes of coloradella so deposited, two of 
them especially labelled by Mr. Kearfott, no less than four were 
spurious types, the localities from which they came not being men- 
tioned in the original description at all! Moreover, two of them are 
true pexella, and not the form coloradella. 
However, it is not my purpose to write a hostile criticism of Mr. 
Kearfott’s paper, much as it failed me in an emergency. Perhaps 
if he had written by daylight instead of by electrie hght, he would 
have seen the specimens in the same colors that I do. The separation 
of repanda Grote and crenulatella Kearfott by the pectinations of 
the male antenne shows careful observation, while the description of 
fernaldella corrects a prevalent misidentification, this form being 
still called ‘‘ pectinifer Zeller,’’? even recently in the British Museum. 
Diatraea epia n. s. 
White, silvery, the body parts grayish white; fore wing largely 
overwashed with pale ochre scales, in, below and beyond the cell and 
along submedian space; subterminally are ochre streaks between the 
veins, uniting to form a submarginal line, a powdering of dark brown 
scales about the yellow patch beyond the cell and throughout the sub- 
median fold, also subterminally on the veins and in diffuse patches 
terminally; fringe white with brown central line and brown tips. 
Hind wing pale gray outwardly. Expanse, 21 mm. 
One female. 
Type, No. 143851, U. S. National Museum. 
Diatraea prosenes n. s. 
White, silvery, the body parts grayish white; fore wing shaded 
with dull ocherous brown broadly between the veins, the streaks 
