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PAPERS BY DR. B. CLEMENS. 



[THE 6th of Dr. Brackenridge Clemens' Contributions to 

 American Lepidopterology, contained in the Proceedings of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, August, 

 1860, pp. 345 362, is entirely devoted to the TORTRICID^, 

 which are reputed by Dr. Clemens as a family of the 

 TINEINA he there describes the following forty species, 



Pcecilochroma ? dorsisigna- 



tana, 



P. ? similiana, 

 Monosphragis otiosana, 

 Lozopera? angustana, 

 Argyrolepiat lepidana, 

 Ccelostathma discopunctana, 

 Smicrotes peritana, 

 Exartema nitidana, 

 E. permundana, 

 E. versicolorana, 

 E. inornatana, 

 E. fasciatana, 

 Hedya Pyrifoliana, 

 H. Scudderiana, 

 Bactra ? argutana, 

 Endopiza? Viteana, 

 E. ? agilana, 

 Carpocapsa Pomonella, 



and 

 loplocama formosana. 



Antithesia nimbatana, 



A. bipartitana, 



A. ? coruscana, 



Lozotcenia Rosaceana, 



L.fervidana, 



Peronea Viburnana, 



Platynota sentana, 



P. fawedana, 



Anchylopera Spireafoliana, 



A. nubeculana, 



A. Platanana, 



A. striatana, 



A. costomaculana, 



Dysodia oculatana, 



Stigmonota inter stinct ana ^ 



Halonota simulana, 



If. incanana, 



Ephippiphora parmatana, 



Amorbia humerosana, 



Croesia ? reticulatana, 



C. ? sulfureana, 



The following concluding remarks on the family TORTRICID^E 

 are too interesting to be omitted here.] 



This group of insects is probably the most difficult, in a 

 systematic point of view, and the least interesting family in 



