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matter; and I feel convinced that future generations will honour the 
State which takes the lead of a movement to counteract a disease of such 
alarming influence over the prosperity of a widely spread and, until lately, 
remunerative culture.—ALBERT MULLER. ~ 
MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 
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GELECHIA. 
This huge genus comprehends insects of great variety of size and 
structure, but unfortunately it has not yet been found practicable to sub- 
divide it. It contains, no doubt, material for several genera, and for the 
convenience of the student, if for no other reason, its subdivision is 4e 
desideratum in microlepidopterology. The young student who finds a 
micro with-the palpi simple or but scarcely at all thickened with scales 
beneath, the fore wings comparatively narrow, and the hind wings deeply 
excised beneath the tip, and is told that it is a Ge/echia, may well be 
astonished when he finds a larger insect, with the hind wings not at all 
excised beneath the tip, and the palpi overarching the vertex, with a large 
brush beneath the second joint, which may even present some appearance 
of longitudinal division, and is told that it, too, is a Gelechia. Several of the 
species which I have placed provisionally in Depressarta, some entomolo- 
gists would, no doubt, place in this genus. ‘The species hereinafter 
described belong, with two or three exceptions, unquestionably to Ge/echia. 
Possibly, the entomology of other localities may furnish the connecting 
links between these species and those that I have placed in Defressaria, — 
but I have not met with the connecting links, and the two groups of 
species seem to me to be as essentially distinct as Gelechia roseosuffusella, 
Clem., or G. Hermanella, Stainton, are from Defressaria albipunctella, as 
figured by Stainton. A few of the species, however, described below, do 
not belong to the group represented by G. roseosugfusella; but to those 
having a small brush on the second joint of the palpi. 
G. thoraceochrella, LN. sp. 
Second joint of the palpi with a small but distinct brush; palpi dark 
brown, ochreous along the inner surface and the second and third joints 
tipped with ochreous; apical half of the tongue yellowish; antennæ 
