THE 
WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST* 
“entoma quidquid agunt nostri est farrago libelli.” 
No. 34,] 
GENERA AND SPECIES OF THE CRAM- 
BIDiE AND CHILONIDJE. 
From the Latin of Prof. P. 0. 
Zeller. 
No. 2. 
TN order that no one may accuse 
-L me of having adopted a de- 
ceptive title for my book, when he 
discovers various species wanting 
in my list, I shall proceed to men- 
tion some works which I have had 
little or no opportunities of consult- 
ing, and some species which I have 
left out of my enumeration. I wish 
especially to notice Hiibner’s work 
on Exotic Lepidoptcra. Several years 
ago I procured the work, and made 
notes of what appeared likely to be 
of use to me, but two figures of 
Crcimbidce which it contains, puzzled 
me so much that I thought it best 
barely to mention one (Agriplrila 
perstricdis ) in a note, and to omit the 
other altogether. For Topeutis res * 
pcrsalis, which Hiibner describes as 
very like Schoenobius Gigantcllus, on 
account of the shortness of the hind 
wings if I am not deceived, could not 
with any show of reason be placed 
[Price 2 d . 
in the same genus. Nor can I assert 
positively that I saw all the Cram- 
bidce contained in the book. I once 
had an opportunity of seeing Cra- 
mer’s work, but cannot now remem- 
ber whether either Crambi or Chi- 
lones; which could have been described 
from his figures, were contained in 
it. I have not been able, either, to 
procure Donovan a second time, who 
has figured only a few species. Peo- 
ple may be more surprised at my 
having left out as many species as I 
have adopted of those described by 
Dr. Clemens in his work entitled 
“ Contributions to American Lepi- 
dopterology,” of which I reason why 
Or ambus luteolellus , caliginoscllus, 
matabilis, elegans , and ChiJo mulinel- 
lus, and aquilellus are wanting in my 
list is simply that I have never seen 
them ; and to translate Dr. Clemens’ 
descriptions into Latin, although 
short enough, would, I knew, be a 
mere waste of time, as, considering 
the large number of species, which I 
am sure must exist in the more tem- 
perate parts of America, I should 
have been doing more to obscure sci- 
ence, than to throw any additional 
light upon it. I was in hopes of rc- 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1863. 
