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insects on trees was in likening it to that caused by the one best known 
as the “ Mealy Bug/’ which infested to so great an extent at the present 
time, the Maple trees of Philadelphia. If persons would only take a 
little trouble to clean the branches of our trees it would, he believed, 
be very beneficial to them. The coccus he thought, but would not at 
present assert the fact, consisted of two broods per annum. 
Dr. Leidy remarked that he had noticed the same thing on the 
Peach, and other fruit trees as that just stated. In his garden he had 
frequently seen an insect of the same character on the branches of the 
Rose trees. The only efficacious plan he had yet found was to give 
the bushes, quite frequently, a good sweeping with a broom. By so 
doing the covering of the insect is removed, and the insect exposed to 
the action of the weather, which in most cases is fatal to it. 
ELECTION. 
On ballot, J. C. Brevoort, Esq., of Brooklyn, New York, was elected 
a Corresponding Member of the Society. 
NORTH AMERICAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA. 
BY BRACKENRIDGE CLEMENS,. M. D. 
Labradorian Tineina. 
TINEA. 
1. Tinea Mflavimaculella. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Sept. 1859, p. 257. 
A single much mutilated specimen collected in Labrador by Mr. 
A. S. Packard, Jr., and numbered 1631. 
Mr. Stainton remarks in his Observations on American Tineina: 
This insect is closely allied, if not identical with Tinea Spilotella (see 
Linn. Ent. vi, p. 108, Eusticella var. b). Spilotella appears confined 
to the North of Europe, occurring in Finlands and Scotland. 
ORNIX. 
2. Ornix Boreasella. n. s.—Fore wings dark fuscous, with two white costal 
spots, one exterior to the middle of the costa, and the other midway between 
the first and the apex of the wing: and with two white dorsal spots, one a little 
interior to the first costal spot, and the other, with some scattered white scales, 
opposite the second costal spot. Cilia dark fuscous, with a white patch behind 
