2 Mr. E. Newman's Notice of 



that given by the author who instituted the genus, and it seems 

 courteous to follow him, under the supposition that he had a suf- 

 ficient reason for renouncing the prior name. 



The second species was found in May, 1853, by my friend 

 Mr. Bates, in the Valley of the Amazons, and I propose to name 

 it after that indefatigable collector, as an humble tribute to his 

 untiring zeal. 



Genus Perophora, Harris. 



Imago. — Maxillae obsoletse; palpi maxillares nulli; palpi la- 

 biales breves, porrecti, squamosi; antennae basi approximatae, 

 breviores, subgeniculatse, i. e. articulo basali incrassato, por- 

 recto, caeteris divaricatis, 44-articulata2, bipectinatse, a Imo ad 

 Hum ramulis longitudine sensim crescentibus, inde ad 25um 

 sensim descrescentibus, caeteris paribus, brevissimis, omnibus 

 ciliatis: sexuum amhorum alae amplae, anticae subfalcatae, pos- 

 ticse abdomine breviores : maris abdomen manifesto bilur- 

 catum. 



//arj;a involucre mobili foliis constructo vitam deget : involucrum 

 trahit : folia devorat. 



Pupa involucro, apice affixo, mutat. 



Sp. 1. Perophora Melsheimerii. 



Tota pallide rubro-cinerea vel isabellina: alis punctis minutis 

 nigris undique irroratis, fascid lineari fused communi obliqud 

 ante anticarum apicem retrorsum angulata, punctoque majori 

 nigrescenti mediano signatis. 



Saccophora Melsheimeri, Harris, " Entomologist," p. 101. 



Perophora Melsheimerii, Harris, *' Insects Injurious to Vegeta- 

 tion," 1st ed. p. 299 ; Id. 2nd ed. p. 319. 



Hab. Sylvis apud Cambridge (Mass.), Americas Septentrionalis, 

 larva involucro vitam degens, Quercuum folia devorans. 



Larva of Perophora Melsheimerii, of Harris. 



A case of this insect, contaming a living caterpillar, was brought 

 to Dr. Harris, towards the end of September, by a student of 

 Harvard College, Mr. H. O. White, who found it on an oak tree 

 in Cambridge. This case was nearly an inch and a half long, and 

 about half an inch in diameter. It was not regidarly oval, but 



