372 Mv. A. S. Packard on the S<-ah:.Uke and Fl Ulened 



I inserted a qualifying footnote. What more could I have 

 done ? 



(10). At the beginning of his article Mr. Iledley alludes 

 to MS. names and imperfect diagnoses. It seems almost 

 superfluous to state that there are no MS. names in mj paper. 

 Tiie generic diagnoses are pur|josely short ; hut the species 

 in the new genera and subgenera are elsewhere described, in 

 detail, with the exception of Neojanella dahia^ which is 

 described on p. 217. Pseadaneitea spp. have been describsd 

 and their anatomy figured by Simroth. Pseudaustenia has 

 similarly been fully described and figured by Godwin- 

 Austen. Imerinia has its type in specimens which I con- 

 sider to be identical with Veronicelia Grandidieri, C & F., 

 already described. Aneitella has been described and figured 

 by j\Ir. E. A. Smith ; the anatomy of this and oi Neojanella 

 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. Hcdley's criticism is without sufficient reason. 

 Nobody appreciates more than the present writer the labours 

 of students like Mr. Iledley in special fauna3 ; but is it fair 

 that they should gruinble at others, who, with less material, 

 hesitate to assert what they cannot know with certainty ? 



Kingston, Jamaica, 

 Feb. li>, 1S92. 



LIV. — On the Scale-like and Flattened Hairs of certain 

 Lepidoplerous Larvai. By A. S. Packard. 



The late Dr. T. W. Harris * described an Acront/cfa-hxiva, 

 which he called Acronycta aniericanx, as " beset with a few 

 long black bristles dilated at the end," and added, " the long, 

 black, spear-heatled hairs grow iVom the skin and not Irom 

 warts." The same larva was also figured on j). 30-3 of my 

 ' Guide to the Study of Insects ' (fig. 23U). Mr. A.G. P.utlorf 



• 'Entomological CoiTospoudeuce of 1". \N'. Harris,' editoJ bv S. II. 

 Scudiler. Boston, 1S02. 



t " On tbe ISatnval AHinitios of tbo Lopidoptora hilliorto ivlcnvd to 

 tlie(ienu6 Acr<>/ii>i-hi ,i[' Authors;,'' Trans. Ijit. Sue. Loiid., Dec. I.'<75>. 

 1). .'il^i. 



