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appropriate families and genera; indeed, no references to these have 

 been made by modern workers including Meyrick, who apparently 

 never recognized any of the species. 



For the most part the types are not in sufficiently good condition 

 to encourage photography; they are either covered with mold or are 

 glued to small pieces of celluloid. The pattern on some of them is 

 clearly visible, but on the others it is obscured. By cleaning a fore- 

 wing it was possible to make a fairly accurate drawing of the pattern 

 of Epigraphia albella — certainly an adequate procedure for identifica- 

 tion when taken together with the figm-e of the genitalia. 



Oecophoridae 



Epigraphia albella Blauchard 



Figure 1 



Epigraphia albella Blanchard, 1852, in Gay, Historia fisica and politica de Chile, 

 Zoologia, vol. 7, p. 107. 



This species is clearly oecophorid but is improperly placed in 

 Epigraphia. The type is covered with mold, but the following 

 characters are visible: Antenna ciliate. Labial palpus recurved, 

 second and third segments of about equal length. Fore wing with 12 

 veins; 2 remote from 3; 3, 4, and 5 about equidistant; 7 and 8 stalked, 



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Figure 1. — Epigraphia albella Blanchard: a, right wings showing pattern; b, ventral 

 view of male genitalia with left harpe and aedeagus removed; c, aedeagus; d, lateral 

 aspect of uncus and gnathos. 



