4. Melitæ Minuta Edw.—Figured in Mead's Report on Butterflies of Colorado. Syn. Arachne Edw.

Chrysalis.–Length .54 inch ; cylindrical; head case short, narrow, rounded at vertices, the sides sloping; mesonotum rounded, not prominent, followed by a shallow depression; the abdomen large, and offering several rows of short conical tubercles; color yellow-white or buff, marked with black; top of head case black, the antennæ cases same; mesonotum with two crescent spots on each side; on the wing case a central patch and dark border ; the segments of abdomen edged with black on dorsal side; a ventral longitudinal stripe and one on either side; the tubercles black at summit, orange at base.

It has so happened that within a few years past Professors Zeller and Frey in Europe, and I in the U. S., have at about the same time described a large nunber of American species of Tineina, and as might have been expected under these circumstances, it has occasionally happened that the same species has been twice described under different names.

Tortrix (Loxotaenia) Clemensiana, n. s.

Head and thorax above ochre yellow; palpi darker on the outside, lighter beneath ; antennæ dark ochre yellow, minutely pubescent in the male ; legs straw yellow, in some specimens the fore and middle legs are fuscons in front ; thorax beneath and abdomen above and beneath silvery fuscous, in some specimens very light straw color ; anal tuft light straw color.

Since my discovery of the mite found preying upon the eggs of the Orange Scale Insect (Aspidiotus Gloverii), I have been studying the insects found on the Orange tree, and my study has resulted in bringing to light many curious insects, of which I submit the following brief description. Those interested will find a full account of their habits in the Florida Agriculturist.