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will be found very distinct, and may at once be accurately sketched under 
the camera. If it is desired to preserve the wing, it should immediately, 
by the cautious addition of clean water, be floated off the glass slip on to 
another clean slip, enough water being used to remove the potash, and 
the wing dried upon the slip. 
This plan answers better still for the removal of the scales of the head 
and its appendages ; and the wing or head may be denuded and sketched . 
under the camera within five minutes. 
HYPONOMEUTA. ; 
1. H. multipunctella Clem. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1800, p. 8. 
Dr. Clemens’ description, of this species is too brief for a species 
belonging to a genus the species of which so closely resemble each other 
as they do in this genus. In a general way, his description characterizes 
almost any species of the genus. 
He says: “ Labial palpi, head, antennæ and thorax white. Thorax 
with a black spot on the front of the tegulæ, and a few spots of the same’ 
hue on the disk. Fore-wings white, with the costa at the base blackish, 
and longitudinal rows of distinct black dots, zwo of which, one along the 
inner margin, and one along the fold, are very plain. ind wengs blackish 
grey.” (The italics are my own). | 
What does “two of which” mean? two spots, or two rows of spots? 
If the latter, then it does not differ greatly from 77. exonymella. But “hind 
wings blackish-grey” does not accord with either of the following species : 
2. Hf. euonymella. LV. sp. 
Snowy white. Abdomen yellow ; posterior wings silvery white, fringed 
with snow-white. A black spot on the base of the tegulæ, six others on 
the thorax; extreme costa black at the base ; forty to forty-five black 
spots on each wing, forming three rows, one on the costal margin, and one 
on each side of the fold, and a few scattered spots upon the disc. The 
spots in the costal row are smaller and wider apart than those in the two 
others, and are not so regular, as in some specimens they are a little out 
of line, and become intermixed with the discal spots ; the two other rows 
pass beyond the fold, and extend as a double row of small close spots 
around the apex till they meet the costal row. Zhe spots on each nearly 
circular. Alar ex. + inch. Kentucky. Very common. 
The larva feeds upon the leaves of Zuonymus atropurpureus in May, 
weaving together the edges of the leaves so as to enclose a space as large 
as a man’s fist, which is filled with its loose web, and in which one, or 
