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the characters given by Ratzburg of ahietella, I have alluded to in my 

 original paper on the subject. 



But on examining the neuration of abietella I find that on the fore 

 "wings veins 4 and 5 are not furcate, but spring, as in Zimmermani and 

 the species I here refer to Nephopteryx, separately from the median vein, 

 running so close together at base that they appear to be furcate at their 

 point of divarication. I also find that the origin of 6 and 7 is diflerent 

 from Zimmermani and the species I here refer to Nephopteryx. In abietella, 

 6 joins 7 at the point of issue of the discal cross-vein; in Zimmermani, 6 

 joins 7 before the cross- vein, which arises from 6. On the hind wings in 

 Finipestis, vein 5 is independent ; but, in JDioryctria abietella, vein 5 is 

 joined to the median vein close to the point of origin of 4 and 3. I find 

 thus that Heineman's diagnosis of JDioryctria is correct, except that, if 

 by " Ast 4 und 5 auf gemeinschaftlichem Stiele" he means that 4 and 5 are 

 furcate, as I have understood him, he has made the same error that I 

 did at first in considering these veins furcate in Zimmermani. 



Finipestis? abietivorella, n. s. 



Under the MS. name of Fempelia abietivoreUa, Dr. Packard sends 

 me a single fresh female specimen, which bears at first sight a Close 

 resemblance to the European abietella, but agrees in neuration with 

 Finipestis. Vein 5 of the hind wings is independent; veins 4 and 5 of 

 the primaries are not furcate, and the position of the cross-vein is as in 

 Zimmermani. But as I do not know the male of this new Pine Pest, I 

 cannot surely indicate its generic position. It may belong to Salebria. 

 The moth has so close a resemblance to abietella that I took it for that 

 species until I examined the neuration. Ifc seems a little larger, the 

 primaries more blackish, powdered with white. There are no raised 

 scales on the fore wings and no red tints, so that it cannot be con- 

 founded with Zimmermani. The anterior line is more dentate and the 

 posterior line broader than in abietella. The moth was received by Dr. 

 Packard from Prof. H. W. Parker, of Amherst, Mass. The larva was 

 found two-thirds grown, "boring in top of a tree of the Norway Spruce 

 It was smooth, slender, dark brown. Taken the first week of August. 

 Pull grown it measured f inch, and pupated in cocoon formed of its 

 own excrement and silk the last of August. The imago was found fresh 

 and alive Sept. ]9." This Norway Spruce moth must not be con- 

 founded with Salebria fusca, which it very nearly resembles. The fore 

 wings are more powdered with white, the posterior line broader, 

 while in fusca vein 6 on fore wings is thrown off from the cross-vein 

 further from 7. This new moth cannot be a Fempelia from the 8- veined 

 secondaries, nor can I refer it as congeneric with the species I here 

 refer to Neplwpteryx from the position of vein 5 of the hind wings. 

 Salebria fusca is apparently a larger moth than abietivoreUa, and may 

 be most quickly distinguished by the discal points being black, super- 

 posed, and sometimes coalesced, while in Finipestis? abietivoreUa and 

 the European Dioryctria abietella the discal mark of primaries is white. 



