30G ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY NOTE ON A WRONGLY IDENTIFIED SPECIES OF TOR-TRICID^E. {Phthinolophus indentanus, n. gen. and sp.) By HARRISON G. DYAR. Two years ago I described* the larva of Cerorrhirieta\ calidana Zeller, identified by Prof. Fernald with a query, the larvae on Eugenia from Florida. Another specimen in the collection of Mr. Philip Laurent, of Philadelphia, collected at Mt. Airy, Pennsylvania, bears Prof. Fernald's label, in his own handwriting, this time without the query. Mr. Laurent has other specimens from Anglesea, New Jersey, and I have a series bred on wax myrtle {Myrica cerifera) at the Department of Agriculture under the number 3422, June, 1884, from Fortress Monroe, Virginia. In all 41 specimens are before me. The Myrica specimens were submitted to Lord Walsingham in 1884 and labelled u Pcedisca, n. sp." Prof. Fernald has a specimen sent him in 1898 and still unreported upon except to the effect that it was not the Florida species. In my opinion, however, there is but a single species before me, and that with but a small range of variation. I feel reluctantly compelled to dissent from Prof. Fernald's determination. Zeller described Cerorrhineta\ as "Die erste bekannte Wicklergattung in welcher die mannlichen Fiihler, wie bei Pempelia und Nephopteryx, doch ohne Krummung der Geissel, dttrch rauhe Schuppen zu einem langlichen Knoten ver-dickt sind," and ; 'Beim tf derganze Vorderrand bis nahe an die Spitze zuriickgeschlagen ist." In the specimens before me there is no knot-like thickening of the cT antennas as in Nephopteryx, but a long, slight thickening with a notch near its end as in Tmetocera. The $ costal fold does not reach over half the length of the costal margin. In the specific description of calidana, Zeller does not describe any of the characteristic mark ings of the specimens before me. If further proof were needed, Walsingham's discussion and figure of the venation show a very different insect, belonging to the TortricinaB and allied to Capua, whereas the form before me belongs to the OlethreutinaB near Tmetocera. *Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., iv, p. 468, 1901. f Written Cerorrhincta by a typographical error. J Hor. Ent. Soc. Ross., xm, p. 116, 1877. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1891, p. 499, PI. XLI, fig. 2, where he changed the name to CeratorrJiineta, inadmissibly, I believe, and Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1897, 133.
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