72 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
MICRO - LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY V. T. CHAMBERS, COVINGTON, KENTUCKY. 
Continued from Page 50. 
GRACILLARIA. 
If the rule holds good absolutely that the same generic name should 
not be used in Entomology and Botany, then Gracillaria must be dropped 
in one or the other. I do not know which has priority, but a name of a 
genus so old and well known as the Gracilaria of Micro-Lepidopterists 
ought scarcely to give place to an obscure genus of Cryftogamia. 
EIDO ALBAPALPELLA. 
Venillia albapalpella, ante v. 4, p. 207. 
Dr. Packard calls my attention to the fact, which has slipped my 
memory, that Veni//ia is preoccupied among Geometride. I therefore 
substitute £7do for it. 
PSORICOPTERA GIBBOSELLA, Stainton. 
Adrasteia quercifoliella, ante v. 4, p. 206. 
When ‘ Adrasteia’ was established I knew /soricopiera only by name 
A specimen of À. guercifoliella which I sent to Mr. C. V. Riley, was pro- 
nounced by him to be nothing else than P. gibbosella, St. Mr. Riley 
states that he has bred the species from larvae feeding on Oak leaves, and 
that he compared his bred specimens with specimens in the collection of 
Mr. Stainton. He has also favored me with a generic and specific 
diagnosis of P. gibbosella, and I am satisfied that his identification of A. 
guercifoltella with it is correct. Adrasteta must therefore give place to 
Psoricoptera, and the species which I have placed in the former must be 
removed to the latter genus. Some of the other species (asa g. D? 
pseud-accaciella) which I have placed provisionally in Depressaria, also 
approach very nearly to Psoricoptera, if they do not in fact belong zz it. 
PTEROPHORUS. 
P. lacteodactylus. N. sp. 
Creamy white. Head pale lemon yellow, except between the antennae 
where it is of the general creamy white hue; abdomen with a streak of 
pale lemon ye'low along the sides. Alar ex. 114 inch. Kentucky, in 
June. 
