AMERICAN LEP1D0PTERA. Ki7 



(IIOKEITIS. 

 746; 747. Clioreutis bjorkandrelln Thn 



anstralis Zell. 



This species has not, so far as I am awai'e, been recorded from North 

 America. 1 have received it from Mis< Murtfeldt, from whom the 

 specimens in Prof. Fernald's collection were also obtained. It occurs 

 also in California, together with a form identical with, or very closely 

 allied to, Ohoreutu silphiella Grote, (Papilio, vol. i. p. 10), which must 

 probably be regarded as distinct 



Genus A.CROLOPHUS Poey 



71fi, 717. Acrolophus sp. 



Given as Anaphora agrotipenvella Grote, in Miss Murtfeldt's list, to 

 which a note is attached by Prof. Fernald : u =An. arcane.Ua CI.; the 

 type is a shade lighter colored, and nearly as light as An. mortipennella 

 Grote." I must leave Prof. Fernald responsible lor this comparison,* 

 merely observing that Clemens writes, in his description of A. arcanella, 

 "Labial palpi shorter in the o than in the preceding (A. popeanella 

 Clem.), ascending, but not recurved.'' The specimens now before me 

 have the palpi decidedly recurved. I saw Dr. Cleaiens's supposed type 

 at Philadelphia in 1ST-; but a note of interrogation on my list, shows 

 that I had then some doubt as to its identity. .Mr. Grote's type of his 

 Anaphora agrotipevnella is not among his very large series of specimens 

 belonging to tins genus now in the British Museum; but on my calling 

 his attention to specimens similar to those in Miss Murtfeldt's box he ex- 

 pressed his opinion that they were not his A. agrotipennella. Mr. Grote 

 confirmed my belief that ^4. agrotipennella was equivalent to A. scardina 

 Zeller, Yerh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1*73, p. 216, which is described by Zeller 

 as variable in size and color. Is not this also .1. popenni'Uti Clem? as 

 suggested by Chambers, sec " Index" . 



Mr. Grote calls attention to the difference in the palpal structure 

 I Can. Fnt, iv. p. 138 ), referring to Stainton's edition of CleinensV papers 

 (Tin. North Am. p. 60), where the head of A.popeanella is figured ; but 

 referring to p. 57 we find "popeanello. : labial palpi in the male as long 

 as thorax," which is evidence that the figure on p. lid must represent 

 the female. The whole genus requires careful revision ; and the name 

 "Anaphora' of Clemens must be required to give place to one of the 

 earlier generic names which has been attached to these curious forms by 

 other authors. Hiibner'e Pinaris hamiferella (Ziitrage, pp. 441, Wl) 

 appears to belong to the same genus; this is from Rio Janeiro, whence 



* My comparison was made under unfavorable circumstances and is not to bo 

 depended upon. C. H Fkk.vu.ii. 



