372 Mr. A. S. Packard on the Scale-like and Flittened 
I inserted a qualifying footnote. What more could I have 
done ? 
(10). At the beginning of his article Mr. Hedley alludes 
to MS. names and imperfect diagnoses. It seems almost 
superfluous to state that there are no MS. names in my paper. 
The generic diagnoses are purposely short; but the species 
in the new genera and subgenera are elsewhere described in 
detail, with the exception of Neojanella dubia, which is 
described on p. 217. Pseudanettea spp. have been described 
and their anatomy figured by Simroth.  Pseudaustenta has 
similarly been fully described and figured by Godwin- 
Austen. Imerinia has its type in specimens which I con- 
sider to be identical with Veronicella Grandidiert, C. & F., 
already described. Anettella has been described and figured 
by Mr. BE. A. Smith; the anatomy of this and of Neojanedla 
remains unknown because the British-Museum types must 
not be cut up. There is no other generic or subgeneric name 
in my paper that has not been used and characterized before. 
Now I think I have shown that on every single point 
mentioned, Mr. Hedley’s criticism is without sufficient reason. 
Nobody appreciates more than the present writer the labours 
of students like Mr. Hedley in special faune; but is it fair 
that they should grumble at others, who, with less material, 
hesitate to assert what they cannot know with certainty ? 
Kingston, Jamaica, 
Feb. 19, 1892. 
LIV.—On the Scale-like and Flattened [airs of certain 
Lepidopterous Larve. By A, 5. PACKARD. 
Tue late Dr. T. W. Harris * described an Acronycta-larva, 
which he called Acronycta americana, as “ beset with a few 
long black bristles dilated at the end,” and added, “ the long, 
black, spear-headed hairs grow trom the skin and not from 
warts.” The same larva was also figured on p. 305 of my 
‘ Guide to the Study of Insects’ (fig. 236). Mr. A.G. Butlert 
* (Entomological Correspondence of T. W. Harris, edited by 8. H. 
Scudder. Boston, 1862. 
+ “On the Natural Affinities of the Lepidoptera hitherto referred to 
the Genus Acronycta of Authors,” Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., Dec. 1879, 
p. d1s. 
