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Mr. W. H. Patton, of Hartford, Conn., is responsible for the 

 statement*" that Dr. F. Karsch has shown that kaehniella and in- 

 terpimctella are only dimorphic forms of one species. In 1884, 

 Dr. Karsch gave it as his opinionf that Tinea zcce of Fitch mi2;ht 

 prove to be a variety of kiiehniella; and in an article in "Insect 

 Life" for November, 1890,J under the caption "Notes upon Ephes- 

 iia interpundella (Hiibn.) Zeller," Mr. Patton gives both E. kueh- 

 niella and T. zece as synonyms of E. inlerjnmctella. Under the 

 head of "Special Notes," the editors of "Insect Life" (1. c. p. 134) 

 strongly dissent from Mr. Patton's conclusions, stating that they 

 long since adopted, zece as a synonym of inferpwictella, but that 

 they now fully believe in the distinctness of kuehniella, though 

 inclined earlier to a different opinion. 



Mr. Geo. D. Hulst, in his monograph of the Phycitidse of North 

 America,^ has placed inierpunctelJa in the genus Plodia, and left 

 kuehniella under Ephestia. The main difference between the two 

 genera, as indicated by Mr. Hulst, is that in Ephestia the palpi 

 are erect, while in Plodia they are porrect. 



Mr. Eagonot has showE§ that Mr. A. W. Scott's HyphanUdium 

 sericarium evidently belongs to the genus Ephestia and, accord- 

 ing to the description, closely resembles kuehniella; and he is of 

 the opinion that the former will prove identical with the latter 

 species, since its larval habits are precisely the same. For the 

 present, however, Mr. Kagonot is content to let the species remain 

 as Ephestia sericaria (Scott). 



Mr. Hulet says (1. c, p. 199) that he has specimens from New 

 Mexico which connect Ephestia fuscoj aciella Kagonot with E. 

 kueliniella, and he is of the opinion that the former may prove only 

 a variety of the latter. 



SPECIFIC CHAKACTEES. 



Ephestia kuehniel- 

 I la (Fig. 1, a and 5) is 

 a delicate moth, from 

 10 to 14 mm. in length, 

 with a wing expanse 

 varying from 18 to 22 

 mm.** (about seven 

 eighths of an inch). 

 The females are, as 

 a rule, larger than the 



Fro. 1. EDhfsUa icuehniella-.—a. moth: S. female moth, from males, but the general 

 side, restiug; <". laiva; (i. pupa; «. abdomical joint of larva,— pp-l^vr nnd mnrklllfS on 

 all enlargMi; the hair lines representing the natural size, {b, c, e, COJOr anu maiKiUi^b uu 

 from "Inject J-ife;" a and (/ after Chittenden). the WlUgS are the Sam© 



in both sexes. Labial palpi blackish gray; head and thorax some- 



•Insect Life, Vol TIL, p. 158. 



\ tSntomoioqische Nachrichtev, May, 1884. 



$Vol. Ill ,p. 158. 



liTrans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. XVII., pp. 93-228. 



§Ann. Ent. Soc. France (Bull.), 1892, p. CCLXXIV. 



**Mr. Hulst gives 24-29 m-n. (Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. XVII., p. 198 ) 



