d^i Journal New York Entomological Society. [Voi. x. 



on the same plant are recorded in the notes of the Insectary, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, from Virginia and Pennsylvania. 



Cosmoptryx floridanella Bciifoimi'iller. 



C. nigrapiiHi-tella BusCK. 



Since describing this species I have seen several other specimens 

 in various states of preservation and have more carefully examined Mr. 

 Beutenmiiller's type, United States National Museum type No. 496. 



There is no doubt that it is the same species as nigrapunctella, the 

 type of which is a perfect, fresh and glossy specimen, while floridati- 

 ella was described from a flown and faded one. 



Marmara Clonens. 



While correcting my own mistakes I take the opportunity to call 

 attention to a fault in my delineation of the wing of this genus (Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XXIII, Plate 1, Fig. 14, 1900), which through some 

 unexplainable carelessness shows one costal vein more than it should, 

 and more than my explanation of the venation on page 246 would 

 indicate. This latter is correct. 



Proleucoptera, gen. nov. (Tineidaj.) 



Type : Leucoptera smilaciella Busck. 



In the description of the above species (Journ. New York Ent. 

 Soc, VIII, 244-246, 1900), I pointed out that its wing venation 

 does not agree with that of the genus Leucoptera, but that it was in- 

 cluded in this genus on account of its evident close relation to it in 

 general characters and its identical life mode, larva and cocoon. 



Dr. Edward Meyrick, to whom I have sent cotypes of nearly all 

 species described by me, and who has favored me with kind criticism 

 or remarks on all such, wrote me a year ago, the following comment 

 on this species which I c[uote in full with his permission. 



" I am clearly of opinion that this i^Lciicoptera stiiilaciella) Busck should not 

 be included in Leucoptera, but should form a new genus. It differs from Leucoptera 

 in having the whole crown of the head tufted with rough hairs, whereas in Leucoptera 

 the head is quite smooth and glossy, with only the back of the crown sometimes 

 rough ; and in possessing distinct, short, drooping palpi, whereas in Leucoptera these 

 are obsolete. 



" These characters are constant in the European and Australian species of Leu- 

 coptera. 



" In the Australian and Malavan genus Crobylophora Meyrick, the head and palpi 

 are quite as in your species and it would go there better than in Leucoptera (the 



