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topic which was of surpassing interest to them at that time, a 
copy of this communication was inserted in the Salem Press 
newspaper of July 12th, copies of which were distributed to all 
my correspondents. Upon the 8th of July 1 obtained the insect 
in its perfect state, and met with specimens in abundance, in 
orchards and forests upon the following day. A postscript 
to my previous communication was accordingly prepared, giving 
a description of the moth, when I was not a little surprised to 
receive from Dr. Harris a slip from the Cambridge Chronicle of 
July 19th, containing a short description of this same insect, 
under the name of Rhinosia pometella. Although this name, 
thus published in a local newspaper, had no scientific validity, 
I cheerfully adopted it. My communication of June 30th, and 
a postscript thereto dated July 23d, was published in the Jour¬ 
nal of the New-York State Agricultural Society, September 1853, 
(vol. iv, p. 36), and was re-published with Dr. Harris’s article 
from the Cambridge newspaper appended, in the Society’s Tran¬ 
sactions for that year, (vol. xiii, pp. 178—192). These are the 
principal papers upon this insect, so far as I am aware, which 
have hitherto appeared. 
Although from its habit of drawing leaves together in a clus¬ 
ter, secreting itself between and feeding upon them, letting 
itself down by a thread, &c., the palmer worm corresponds with 
the Family Tortricida of the Order Lepiooptera, there is a section 
of moths of Family Tineidje which possess these same habits, 
and it is to this latter family which this insect pertains. The 
genus to which it belongs is characterised principally by having 
the scales with which the feelers or palpi are clothed very long, 
jutting forward of the head horizontally like a camel’s hair pen¬ 
cil, or a beak, with the last joint slender and projecting upwards 
from the middle of this beak like a little horn or .spur, as repre¬ 
sented in the profile view of the head, plate 4, fig. 4 a. The name 
Chcetochilus given to this genus by Mr. Stephens, is retained by 
Westwood and Humphrey in their recent work on British moths. 
The name Rhinosia bestowed almost simultaneously upon this 
genus by the German naturalist Treitschke and adopted by Dr- 
Harris, is too nearly identical with the name Rhinotia , given 
many year* anteriorly by Mr, Kirby to a genus of weevils, to 
