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Gelechia fungivorella, bred by Mr. B. D. Walsh, who 

 writes : " The larva mines a cabbage-like gall, brassicoides, 

 peculiar to Salix longifoliay and a pine-cone-like gall on 

 Salix cordata named strobiloides by Osten Sacken." 



Gelechia salicifungiella, bred by Mr. B. D. Walsh ; the 

 larva mining the same gall, brassicoideSj as G. fungivo- 

 rella. 



And in the fifth volume of the ^' Proceedings of the En- 

 tomological Society of Philadelphia," p. 142, Dr. Bracken- 

 ridge Clemens has described a species of JBatrachedra, 

 under the name of salicipomonella, which is also a gall- 

 inquihne. 



Dr. Clemens observes, " This is a very interesting * micro,' 

 not only in consequence of the specific resemblance it bears 

 to the European Batrachedra prceangusta^ but of the dis- 

 covery of its larva by one of our most gifted and promising 

 Entomologists, Mr. Benjamin D. Walsh, of Rock Island, 

 Illinois. 



"In the note which accompanied the perfect insects, Mr. 

 Walsh writes : * I enclose herewith several specimens of a 

 moth, bred from the Tenthredinidous gall, Salicis pomuniy 

 Walsh, MS., and a single one from the Cecidomyiadous 

 gall, S. rhodoides, Walsh. This is the insect that I think I 

 mentioned to you as being very prettily marked in the larva 

 state, each segment having a broad black band, and the 

 ground colour being whitish. I had a single one come out 

 last summer, but the great bulk of them hybernated either 

 in the larva or pupa state, and came out May 8th — 20th. 

 They vary very little. I have beaten larvae of very simi- 

 lar appearance off' oak trees.' " 



And in a subsequent letter Mr. Walsh furnished the fol- 

 lowing additional particulars : — 



" This larva occurred in abundance, August 23rd, and sub- 



