312 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, ’08 
Eupithecia miserulata Grote. 
RicHARD F, PearsA.t, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
In order to identify this insect (the type being lost) the 
writer has examined, during the past three years, many thou- 
sand specimens, and over two hundred examples of the species, 
which he has become firmly convinced, should bear that name. A 
brief outline of the work done has been stated by Mr. J. A. 
Grossbeck (Ent. News, Vol. 18, pages 342-346), much of it 
along independent lines, yet mutually helpful toward the one 
determination we most sought. 
After I had left the city for the summer, he received the 
specimen from Philadelphia, which he finds to answer so ex- 
actly to Grote’s description that he declares it to be miserulata, 
and probably the lost type. Since my return it has not been 
possible for me to visit New Brunswick until ten days ago, 
when we again examined this supposed type. Having carried 
with me a good series of the species we originally called mis- 
erulata, it was not difficult to convince Mr. Grossbeck that his 
supposed type was exactly the same with some of these. My 
object in relating this incident is not to discredit Mr. Gross- 
beck’s judgment—for I consider it excellent—but to bring out 
the fact that Grote’s description FITS NO OTHER SPECIES. 
That an independent example, without locality, supposed to 
be different, has been found to so exactly answer it, and then 
to discover that it comes back to the species we originally se- 
lected, seems to me a positive proof that we have the real 
miserulata “nailed down,” taking also in connection with it the 
other facts we have gathered, and still further that it is this 
species reared from a larva which Mr. Grote saw in the col- 
lection of Mr. William T. Davis and named miserulata. 
And what is this species? It is the nebulosa Hulst. The 
Rev. G. W. Taylor has given his opinion that another species 
(Can. Ent., Vol. 39, p. 168) sent by me to him, which I take 
rarely in Bronx Park and in the Catskill Mountains (filmata 
Pears.), is miserulata, but my series will in no wise answer 
Grote’s description; and, further, my species is not the same 
