REVISION OF THE OECOPHORIDAE — CLARKE 259 



Hind wing as broad as fore wing, pointed; costa slightly convex 

 before middle ; 8 veins ; 3 and 4 connate ; 5 curved ; 6 and 7 subparallel. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe with clasper. Gnathos and uncus well 

 developed. 



Female genitalia. — Anterior apopliyses branched. Ductus bursae 

 partly sclerotized. Signum present. 



Larva. — Ninth segment with seta I approximate to II (much closer 

 to II than to III) ; seta VI not on the same pinaculum with IV and 

 V, approximate to VII. Setal group VII essentially as in Agonop- 

 terix: bisetose on first and seventh, unisetose on eighth and ninth 

 abdominal segments. Ocelli reduced (ocellus 1 more or less com- 

 pletely fused with 2 and ocellus 3 with 4). Submentum without pit. 



Pupa. — Pubescent. Prothoracic femora and labial palpi not 

 exposed. Cremaster absent. 



Remarks. — Hofmaimophila may be distinguished, in the larv^a, from 

 other oecophorid genera (except Endrosis) by the approximation of 

 seta I with II and VI with VII on the ninth abdominal segment; 

 and from Endrosis by the absence of a submental pit and the presence 

 of only two setae in group VII on the second abdominal segment. 



Lepesme ^^ has pointed out the differences between Hofmannophila 

 and BorkJiausenia. Although he has used B. stipella (Linnaeus) (a 

 congener of minutella Linnaeus) for his comparisons with pseudo- 

 spretella., the differences show adequately why Hofmannophila should 

 be removed from BorkJiausenia (Genotype : Phalaena Tinea minutella 

 Linnaeus). 



HOFMANNOPHILA PSEUDOSPRETELLA (Stainton) 



Oecophora pseudosprctella Stainton, Catalogue of the British Tineidae and 

 Pterophoridae, p. 14, 1S49; Insecta Britanniea Tineina, p. 162, 1854; A 

 manual of British butterflies and moths, vol. 2, p. 35S, 469, 1859. — Teng- 

 STROM, in Forhandlingar, Pro fauna et flora Fennica, p. 346, No. 1052, 

 1869. — Heinemann, Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands uud der Schweiz, vol. 

 2, p. 377, 1870. — WocKE, in Staudlnger and Wocke, Catalog der Lepidop- 

 teren des europaeischeu Fauuengebiets, vol. 2, p. 307, No. 2265, 1S71.— 

 WoLiASTON, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 5, vol, 3, p. 436, 1879. — Sorhagen, 

 Die Kleinschmetterlinge der Mark Brandenburg, p. 333, 1886. — Walsingham, 

 Ins. Life, vol. 1, p. 149, 1888.— Riley, in Smith, List of the Lepidoptera of 

 Boreal America, No. 5555, 1890.— DiSQUfi, Ent. Zeit. (Stettin), vol. 56, 

 p. 244, 1895.— Reutti, Verb. Naturw. Ver. Karlsruhe, vol. 12, p. 238, 1898.— 

 Seebold, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., Iris, vol, 11, p. 316, 1898. — Crombijugghe, 

 Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 42, p. 36, 1898.— DiSQufi, Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr., 

 Iris, vol. 14, p. 214, 1902.— Busck, in Dyar, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52 ,No. 

 5926, 1903. — Anderson, Catalogue of British Columbia Lepidoptera, No. 1099, 

 1904.— Blair, Entomologist, vol. 58, p. 10, 1925. 



Acompsia pscudospretella (Stainton) Meyrick, A handbook of British Lepidop- 

 tera, p. 634, 637, 1895.— Longstaff, Ent. Monthly Mag., vol. 38, p. 28, 1902. 



•^ Lepesme, P., BuU. Soc. Ent. France, vol. 42, p. 284, 1937. 



