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Gnophela hopfcri feed on Wyetliia. This (the Emplocia) is a 

 shy insect and keeps a weather eye open lor pursuers. ' ' 



Dr. Prime tells me that Sicya macidaria Harr. has not been 

 found by him, except very rarely, and then only one year, at 

 Franconia, N, H., where his summer home is. But at his 

 " Cabin," as he calls it, some 1500 or 2000 feet higher on the 

 mountain, near the notch, the insect appears suddenly about 

 the middle of August, and in about a week disappears just as 

 suddenly. It comes in myriads, so that, as it is attracted by 

 the light, it is impossible to read or write owing to the multi- 

 tudes fluttering about, and the walls and ceiling of the room 

 are covered and literally made yellow by the moths at rest 

 upon them. 



Pyralidina. 



Sir George F. Hamp.son has published a classification of the 

 Pyralidina of the world, which is of great interest to all who 

 have to do with these insects. It is difficult, however, to make 

 much of a comparison, as his genera are rarely or never founded 

 upon what is peculiar to one sex only. His subgenera, there- 

 fore, correspond pretty fairly to our genera. He brings out 

 one new point in the synonomy that Toripalpzis Grt. is the 

 same zs Jocara Walk. 



From Mr, Hampson I have had a number of determinations 

 of species. He is of the opinion that Moodna pelviculcUa Hulst 

 equals Manhatta lugubrella Rag. The genus is a good one. 

 Ragonot had the female only. 



L 'nadilla nasiitclla Hulst is a synonym of Unadilla erronella 

 Zell. 



Mr. Hampson thinks Atascosa bicolorella Hulst is a synonym 

 of Saliuia glareosclla Zell. But if Ragonot* s description of his 

 genus Saluria is correct, the species are not only not the same 

 but are in different genera. Atascosa has 11 veins in the fore- 

 wings, while Saluria has 10 only. In his new classification, 

 which will be published in \'olume II of the Phycitidae of the 

 World, Ragonot will place glareocella under Poiijadia Rag. 

 But in Atascosa the antennae of $ are hardly crenulate, are 

 bent above base, and have scale tuft. In Poujadia they are 

 strongly crenulate, sometimes pectinate, bent above base, with 



