Due to the unsafe condition of the glass boxes, these types were later transferred by Mr. The vast majority of them have been identified with certainty from that source alone, a fact that says a lot about the carefulness of Clemens' work. Department of Agriculture, and at the invitation of the Academy in Philadelphia, to devote two weeks to the study and resurrection of this important collection.
In the following notes the writer has given the wider range of all species in relation to the measure of the type specimen, as well as the localities of all those species for which he has seen other material. I have not seen any specimens exactly resembling this species, but the species should be easily rediscovered with a knowledge of the food-plant Ostrya virginica. Clemens's types of both species, though both in poor condition, fully support this opinion.f The Washington, D., series of both species.
I have reared a large series of this species and am unable to distinguish it from authentic specimens (adults and cases) of the European Coleo phoralimosipennellaDuponchel, which feeds on elm in Europe. Our present knowledge of the genus Coleophora in this country is in such a hopeless state that I cannot point to other synonyms of this species, although they doubtless exist among them. Our names are given mostly without knowledge of food plants and without any com.
In addition, Clemens* labradoriella may profitably be left in the genus for the time being until more material is obtained, although the appearance of the incomplete type, Clemens' No.
WASHINGTON
The types of both these species are in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, and agree with the present type as shown by the descriptions. The species belongs to the genus Dialectica Walsingham, which is distinguished from Gracilaria Haworth mainly by the pectinate posterior tibia; but it may, like the preceding species, remain for the time being in Gracilaria. Two types, one without left wings and the other from left wings only; both are now fastened together to the same stopper; Clemens no.
One type, lacking the right hindwing and part of the abdomen, Clemens's no. This is like our current conception of the species as defined by the author. to his genus Trichotaphe, and the type confirms the current conception of the species.
This accords with my conception of the species; is long in the genus Anacampsis Curtis. Specimens designated by Lord Walsingham as Zeller's species and agreeing with his description are in U.
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The type is of no value, but the species is undoubtedly known from Clemens' description of the moth and from its life history. Two types, one perfect but not distributed, the other without head and without the wings on the left, Clemens' no. These larvae are white, with a blackish brown head and slightly lighter brown thoracic shield, divided in the middle by a straight longitudinal white line; thiscondothoracic segmentis somewhat.
Lord Walsingham made the following species synonymous with quercicella Clemens: (i) Depressaria, cryptolechiella Chambers, the food plant of which is according to Chambers. Psilocorsis quercicella varies only slightly in size, and the largest specimen in a series of over fifty has an extension of only 15 mm, while the average size is just over 13 mm.
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OF Solenobia walshella Clemens
This confirms our present view of the species, which, as determined by the author,* belongs to the genus Anacampsis. Kearfott,t and is probably only a variation of the more common form, subsequently described by Clemens as Brenthia virginiella. As an aid to identification it may be added to Clemens's description that the underside of the forewings is dark fuscous, except the apical fifth.
This confirms the current idea of the species and is a true Gelechia, identical to the later described Gelechia vagella Walker, DepressariafuscoochrellaChambers and Gele chia liturosella Zeller. A series grown from an oak in the District of Columbia and compared with Clemens' type is in the U. This proves the species to be a true Gelechia and the same as the later described Gelechia biminimac.ulella Chambers.
This confirms the current idea of the species. It is the same as Telphusa curvistrigella Chambers and consequently a species of that genus.
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Specimens compared with Clemens' type and previously found identical to Zeller's type in the Cambridge Museum are in the U. Zeller correctly separated his Blastobasilivorella from this species, which lacks the two dark spots at the end of the cell does not have and which differs from any other described American species. It appears, as suspected by Zeller, to be the same as his Blastobasis nubiiella^ the type of which I examined in the Cambridge Museum.
It is also the same as Holcocera glandulella Riley, as suggested by Lord Walsingham.* A big one.
SOCIETY Ypsolophus unicipunctellus Clemens
Despite its poor condition, the type will eventually allow identification as the forewing color is quite striking. If the generic description of Clemens is correct, which is probably the case, the species cannot be included in Epermenia Hiibner. The species should be retained in the genus Ornix for the time being, although Clemens' description and what remains of its type indicate that it does not belong there.
I have no such specimen to prove that the species is a true Gelechia, nearvernella Murtfeldt. I have examined the types in the Cambridge Museum of Laverna miscecolorella Chambers, which represent the same species as shown by Lord Walsingham.*. I have no specimens of this species, and the type is in rather poor condition for identification; still, identification of the species is assured by knowledge of its host plant, together with Clemens's description.
Lord Walsingham has pointed out| the synonymy or Adela schlcegeri Zeller and Dicte coruscifasciella Chambers with this species. The genus Wilsonia can hardly be retained, as it agrees in all essential characters with Mompha Hiibner, under which genus the species should be placed. A copy (type?) with Clemens's label, but without his usual number; in poor condition, left wings missing and right wings rubbed; alar exp., 10 mm.
This is, so far as the condition permits a determination, the same as the present view of the species, namely, a variety of the Brenthia injlatella Clemens previously described.*.
