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Remarks. — I am tentatively placing this genus in the family Cosmop- 

 terygidae. It appears to be related to the genus Macrohathra Meyrick. 



The only species I have seen that is referable to this genus is the 

 genotype. 



Family ETHMIIDAE 



Genus EUMEYRICKIA Busck 



Pl^vte 1, FiGXXRE 8 ; Plate 7, FigutvE 57A ; Plate 12, Figures 75, 75a ; Plate 17, 

 Figure 104 



Enmcyrickia Busck, Journ. New York Eiit. Soc, vol. 10, p. 94, 1902; in Dyar, 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 52, p. 525, 1903.— Kearfott, in Smith, Clieck list of 

 the Lepldoptera of Boreal America, p. 113, 1903. — Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 35, p. 191-192, 1908. — Keakfott, in Smith, Catalogue of the in- 

 sects of New Jersey, p. 561, 1910. — Baknes and McDunnough, Check list 

 of the Lepldoptera of Boreal America, p. 160, 1917. — Forbes, Cornell Univ. 

 Agr. Exp. Stat. Memoir 68, p. 234, 1923.— Brimley, The insects of North 

 Carolina, p. 303, 1938. — McDunnough, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 

 Canada and the United States of America (Part 2, Microlepidoptera), 

 p. 78, 1939. (Genotype: Chaetochihis trimaculellus Fitch, Report on the 

 noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of New York, vol. 2, 

 p. 233, 1856.) 



'lEido Chambers, Can. Ent., vol. 5, p. 72, 1873. — Busck, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 Ao]. 35, p. 192. 1908. (Genotype: Eido albapalpella Chambers.) 



Atheropla Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Ent. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 9, pp. 758-759, 

 1884. (Genotype: Atheropla melicMora Meyrick.) 



The genus Eumeyrichia is clearly ethmiid and is here transferred 

 to that family. Vein 5 of the hind wing is closer to 6 than to 4, a 

 good ethmiid character, which is supported by genitalic characters. 

 In the male genitalia, as in other Ethmiidae, the harpe is distinctly 

 segmented. This character is not found in the Oecophoridae. 



Meyrick has synonymized Eumeyrichia with the Australian genus 

 Atheropla^ which synonymy seems unlikely. In his description of 

 the genus ^^ Meyrick states that veins 5-7 of the hind wing are nearly 

 parallel. If this is true of his Atheropla (partially described from 

 imperfect material), then Eumeyrickia immediately becomes separ- 

 able on the character of vein 5, which is divergent from 6. In view 

 of these facts I believe it advisable to retain Eumeyrickia for our 

 American species. 



The genotype is the only known North American species referable 

 to this cenus. 



" Meyrick, in Wytsman, Genera insectorum, fasc. 180, p. 100, 1922. 



