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ate the rind of an orange. Finally they commenced eating the buds of 

 the blossoms of hawthorn, tlien the leaf-buds and finally fed upon 

 tender leaves. However, tlie cases remained the same as when on 

 orange. 



The cases of the common southern Psychid. which may or may 

 not be distinct from joncsi (see 1922, B. & Cenj., Contr.. V, (1), 47), 

 and which is a general tree-feeder, do not resemble the cases figured 

 by Glover, except in size. 



Until evidence tending to disprove is submitted, it is proposed to 

 restrict the name gloverii to the blackish. Gulf-strip, orange-feeding, 

 species; whose bags agree with the Glover figures. With such fixation 

 of the name gloverii, the genus Platoecetlcus (type gloverii) may be 

 used for the North American forms hereto listed as Manatha, until 

 some w^orker studying the European forms finds valid characters on 

 which to base the genera. It may well be that Psyche should be used, 

 but temporarily Platoeccticus seems safer. 



PYRALIDAE 

 PYRAUSTINAE 

 Edia minutissima Sm. 



1906, Sm., Can. Ent., XXXVIII, 234, Lythrodes. 

 coolidgei Dyar. 



1921, Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menst, IX, 143, Edia. 



A specimen from Palm Springs, Calif, (topotype of coolidgei) 

 was compared with the type of coolidgei by the senior author. It 

 agrees well with a "cotype" of minutissima in the Barnes Collection, 

 where the species is represented by a long series of specimens from 

 Yavapai Co. and Mohave Co., Ariz. ; Clark Co., Nev. ; San Bernadino 

 Co. and Riverside Co., Calif. 



NYMPHULINAE 



Akgyria rileyella Dyar. 



1913, Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menst., I, 113, Argyria. 



Described by Dr. Dyar from a single specimen froni an unknown 

 locality. The Barnes Collection contains four specimens from South- 

 ern Pines, N. Car., June and Aug. 



