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PSY C.BLE: 
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., 
OCT. 1880. 
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REVIEW. 
Lorp WatsincHam’s Illustrations of typical 
specimens of ...N. A. tortricidae [Psycue, 
Rec., no. 1943] is one of the most valuable contri- 
butions to our knowledge of the North American 
tortricdae that has yet appeared. In it a large 
number of new species, mainly from the Pacific 
Coast, are described, and the North American 
species of the tortricidae published by Walker, 
are re-described with colored figures of all the 
new and re-described species. So far as the 
species of Walker are concerned, the work is 
worthy of especial commendation, and the 
students of this group of insects are under great 
obligations to his lordship for providing them 
with the means of recognizing these species, for 
the original descriptions are to a great extent of 
no value whatever. 
Lord Walsingham has in this work adopted 
the classification of Heinemann, with some mod- 
ifications in which he is, no doubt, correct, as in 
raising the subgenera to generic rank, which has 
already been done in part by others. He has 
avoided many errors which might otherwise 
have occurred, by putting himself into corre- 
spondence with Prof. Zeller, and others more or 
less acquainted with these insects, to whom he 
sent as complete suites as possible, to be com- 
pared with the previously described species of 
this country. 
On the orthography of certain names there 
will, doubtless, be a difference of opinion. Many 
agree in changing the spelling of a word from 
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that given by the original author to one more 
consistent with the derivation, and Lord Wal- 
singham, in a letter received since the publication 
of his work, says, “I shall be grateful to you in 
any review of my work to correct Cochylis to 
Conchylis with my entire concurrence.” I am of 
the opinion that we are justified in making this 
change, and in accordance with this principle 
zotaenia becomes Loxotaenia. 
‘ For the Californian species cuneanum, the genus 
Hendecastema is established, but this species is 
identical in its structure with humerosana which 
Clemens published in 1860, and for which he 
established the genus Amorbia. I am very sure 
his lordship did not have an example of hume- 
rosana at the time he published this work, else he 
would have noticed the generic relation, and 
would have placed his cuneanum in the genus 
Amorbia of Clemens. 
The species “Cenopis” pulcherrimana and “OC.” 
demissana belong to the genus Dichelia, while 
“ Begunna” xanthoides Walk. belongs to Oenectra. 
Sericoris foedana Clem. is given as a synonym 
of Penthina hebesana Walk. This is an error 
for which I am responsible, but at the time I had 
good reason for my opinion; I now have the 
type of foedana before me and it proves to be 
distinct from hebesana but identical with Sericoris 
concinnana Clem., which is a true Exartema and 
must be known as Ezartema concinnanum Clem. 
Exartema griseoalbanum Walsingham is a true 
Penthina, as shown by the males in my collection. 
The type was a female and the generic characters 
show only in the males. 
It is a pleasure to review a week of such 
positive merit, prepared, as it has been, with 
such remarkable care. 
C: H: FERNALD. 
IN MEMORIAM. 
Our faithful compositor and efficient assistant 
in the work of publishing Psycue, Edwin 
Charles Prentiss, born at Foxcroft, Me., 2 June . 
1848, died at Brighton, Mass., 25 Dec. 1880, 
of consumption, after a long illness, while at 
work upon this October 1880 numero of Psycue. 
— We will endeavor tomake arrangements as 
soon as possible to continue the work thus 
interrupted. B: P. M. 
