486 General Notes. [June, 
treated of in our Report to the Department of Agriculture for 1878, 
and probably Zulia ministrana which we have received from the 
late Dr. LeBaron of Illinois, and also Spzlonota roborana Schiff. 
(cydnosana Fabr.) which we have reason to believe is the same as 
Hedya Scudderiana Clem. = Euryptichia saligneana Clem. = 
Pedisca affusana Zell. 
In regard to the conventional specific ending to the names of 
Tortricids, we notice that Lord Walsingham follows Zeller im 
making it conform to the gender of the generic name; thus we 
have Lophoderus gloveranus and Exartema sericoranum. 
Lord Walsingham’s paper on Tineidz? and his “ Pterophoride 
of California and Oregon,’? have been reviewed by Mr. E 
Chambers and Mr. Charles Fish in the November number of our 
contemporary, the Canadian Entomologist. In the latter mono- 
graph appears the first general treatment of any portion of the 
North American species and the success of Lord Walsingham s 
collecting in California and Oregon is shown in the discovery of 
twenty-seven new species of this restricted group of moths, 
making the whole number known from Northwest America, 
thirty-eight. Some interesting introductory remarks are given 19 
regard to the geographical distribution and variation of the Spe 
cies; and a new genus, 7richoptilus, is proposed for “ probably 
the smallest known species of Pterophoride,” differing from al 
other genera in the front wings being cleft to the middle and in 
the tuft of scales on the third lobe of the hind wings being situ- 
ated only just beyond the middle—C. V. R. 
~ Morus Mistaken ror Aretia.—Mr. F. A. Walthall, of New- 
burn, Ala., sends us a number of moths, which he captured during 
the latter half of February flying in immense numbers at evening 
time around buildings, and which he supposes to be the cotton- 
moth. They are, however, all Platyhypena scabra ( Fabr.), which 
has been so often recorded by us as being mistaken for ete be 
outil, 
as imago and which are seen flying about on warm evenings, 
species can always be found, even during the coldest spell. 
very slight shelter, such as the loose bark of dead trees, fence 
posts, etc., is sufficient to protect it from the cold, and it has been 
found alive in such places where other hibernating insects, é.§ 
Carabidz and Heteroptera were frozen stiff and dead. ie 
Several other correspondents have lately sent moths from re 
South under the supposition that they were Aletia. Those - £ 
Mr. J. W. Burch, of Fayette, Miss., and from Mr. H. Hawkins, © 
1 On some new and little known species of Tineide. By THOMAS, LORD WALSING: 
HAM. 8vo, pp. 17, 2 plates. Proc. Zodl. Soc., London, 1880. HAM. 
2 Pterophoride of Calijornia and Oregon. By THOMAS, Lorp WALSING 
8vo, pp. 66, 3 plates. London, John Van Voorst, 1880. 
