Being much interested in the Tineidæ, Mr. chambers' articles on this family of moths are the first to receive attention as the successive numbers of your magazine come to hand.

I have had the satisfaction of rearing from their larvæ many of the winged gems described in your pages, among others the twospecies named above. Now, as Mr. C. seems to have been in some doubt as to his own determination of these specics, of which he has as yet-as he informs me seen only the imagines, it occurs to me that a description of their larval characteristics might affors some aid in deciding the doubtful points.

“Ignorato genere proprio, nulla descriptio, quamvis accurate tradita certum demonstret; sed plerumque fa11at.”-Cæsalp. apud Linn., SystNat., xii, 1, 13.

In the first part of this essay I endeavored to show the confusion which resulted from the application of the law of priority to the names employed in the early development of our science by persons who had no idea corresponding to the law which has since been formulated. We will now attempt to discuss the second great fallacy in the exegesis of the writings of the founders of the science ; the selection on principles, more or less arbitrary, but always opinionative, of generic types, when these have not been explicitly mentioned by the author.

This lovely moth is well worthy a place in the cabinet of the collector, and is always sure to attract notice and admiration. The larva, of which fig. 27 represents a full-grown specimen, is of a most delicate apple or pea green colour, with a broad, dusky white stripe at each side, bordered with liliac on the lower edge. The body is covered with clusters of green bristles, tipped with a black.

A collection of Tineina received from Mr. Belfrage, of Waco, Texas, presents some points worthy of mention apart from the descriptions of the new species.

The collection consists of about two hundred and fifty specimens in tolerably good condition, referable to seventy-six species and twenty-seven genera. Such a number of genera and species is evidently typical of the Tineina of thelocality where they were collected.

Eyes hairy ; collar and thorax reddish brown ; the thorax of my only specimen was injured in capture, so that the presence, or if present, the size of the tufts could not be ascertained. But apparently it was tufted, as there are traces of a meta-thoracic elevation. Abdomen yellowish, with a strong basal tuft; the labial and anal tufts tinged with carneous ; beneath red; anterior wings deep uniform red; lines obsolete; nervules distinctly black; a white dot on the costa at the base ; the interior line is only represented by a white dot on the costa and on the subcostal, median and submedian nervures.

In Mr. Grote's recent “List of the Noctuidæ” four of the five species described by Guenæe are marked unidentified. With a very large material(nearly 100 specimens of the different species, for many of which we are indebted to Mr. F. C. Bowditch, who has found them common in the vicinity of Boston) before us, we have attempted to straighten out the species and to characterize the two genera to which we refer them.