WCP2398

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Cambridge

May 15 / 79

My dear Sir

I am very surprised to see by your note in Nature¹ (p. 582) that you hold to the Lepidopterous nature of Bryeria. If you will compare it with the figures of different species of Dictyoneura figured by Goldenberg² in his Fauna Saraepontana Fossilis³ 2^es Heft [illeg.]. 1[.] I think you will acknowledge that you are "referred to some group of insects with which it more nearly agrees" and indeed that it can scarcely be generically separated from them. Further you will scarcely doubt that Dic- [2] tyoneura is a Neuropteran or something very akin to it.

I would acknowledge however that I have no photograph of Bryeria; only a heliotype which is by no means "beautifully sharp"[.]

Yours very faithfully | Sam. H. Scudder⁴ [signature]