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XVI. Nortli American Coleophorce. By Lord Walsingham, 

 M.A., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Read July 5tli, 1882.] 

 Plate XVII. 



In Mr. Chambers' " Index to the described Tineina of 

 the United States and Canada" in the 'Bulletin of the 

 United States Geological and Geographical Survey,' vol. 

 iv., published at Washington in 1878, we find enume- 

 rated no less than forty-four species of the genus Coleo- 

 phora, in addition to which three others only, so far as I 

 am aware, have been described as occurring in that 

 country. These three are Coleopliora ciliceochreUa, Cham. 

 (Can. Ent., vi., 129), C. inornatella, Cham. (Cin. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., ii., 185), C. malivoreUa, Riley (Agricl. Rep., 

 1878, pp. 48, 49, pi. vii., fig. 1). 



Several species of this genus were contained in some 

 American collections lately sent to me for examination 

 by Professor C. H. Fernald, but for the most part they 

 were in poor condition, and unaccompanied by their 

 larval cases. I therefore abstained from describing those 

 of them which appeared to be new, although I was able 

 (in a palmer lately sent to America for publication) to 

 suggest in two instances a probable rectification of 

 synonymy. In a box received at the same time from 

 Professor C. V. Riley were bred specimens of some 

 interesting species of Coleopliora. I regret that, being 

 under a misapprehension of my kind correspondent's 

 liberal intentions, I returned them to him with all others, 

 which, like these, were labelled " unique." Professor 

 Riley has now sent me the larval cases from which they 

 were bred. Postponing detailed descriptions until speci- 

 mens no longer "unique " can be referred to, I propose 

 to notice them shortly here. The first of these seemed 

 to me to agree with the description of Coleopliora cilice- 

 oclirella, Cham. (Can. Ent., vi., 129), and I returned it 

 as possibly belonging to this species ; the arrival of the 

 larval cases attached to the seeds of a species of Juncus 



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