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Dr. Clemens’ papers (a copy of which he has kindly sent to me), suggests 
that’ these species probably belong to Cryprolechia (Dr. Clemens having | 
also suggested that they were intermediate between Gelechia and Depres- 
_saria). J have little doubt that the majority of the species which I have, 
placed in Defressaria belong to this intermediate group. But from an 
unwillingness to multiply genera, I have placed them in Defressaria, 
indicating the points in which they structurally differ from that genus, and 
giving, when known, the food plant of the larvee, so that the insects may 
be identified and disposed of in other genera by future students having 
easier access to European ‘specimens, and to the works of European 
authors. I will, however, indicate my views as to their generic affinities a 
little more fully. 2. cryptolechiella 1 have already removed to /agno, and 
D. albisparseila to Cirrha. : 
D. dubitella, am satisfied, should be removed, at least provisionally, 
to Gdechia; though even the elastic limits of that accommodating genus 
(the Micro-Lepidopterist’s ‘‘waste-paper box”) will hardly stretch to 
receive it. Still it is nearer to that genus than to Defressaria. 
D, cerceriseila, 1 think, will hereafter be placed in Crypfolechia, but I 
have not sufficient knowledge of that genus to be certain. Mr. Riley 
informs me that he has known the species long, and has referred it 
doubtfully to Ge/echia. 1 think, however, that it is nearer to Defressaria. 
D. bimaculella must accompany 2. cercerisella. 
À. Rileyella 1 consider a true Depressaria. 
D bistrigella, D. fusco-ochrella, D. fuscoluteclla, D. obscurusella, D. 
pseudacaciella, D. bicostomaculella. 
In these six species the palpal brush is longitudinally divided, but the 
brush is rather too small, the anterior wings are too -narrow, and the 
colours .are too dark brown for Defressaria, and the abdomen, though 
depressed and tufted at the sides, is hardly fat enough for Depressaria 
proper. Yet as I cannot place them in Gelechia, and from the divided 
brush they cannot belong to Cryptolcchia, 1 leave them for the present in 
Depressaria. The division of the brush is much more distinct in the 
living insect than in the mounted specimen. 
D. guerciella has the same structure as the six preceding species, 
except that it possesses a small double tuft at the apex of the thorax. It 
is not a true Depressaréa, and is probably the type of a new genus. 
D. pallidochrella and D. versicoloretla. 
These. species have the abdomen as distinctly flattened and tufted at 
