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found." He also accorded the group subfamily status within the 

 Tineidae, referring to it as the Anaphorinae without explaining why he 

 gave Clemens' Anaphora (1859-1860) priority over Poey's original 

 gQ\m^ Acrolophus (1832-1833). 



BeutenmiiUer (1887-1888) described four species and a varietal form 

 under Acrolophus. All but one of these subsequently proved to be 

 synonyms of older species. In 1891 Walsingham, in a paper on the 

 Microlepidoptera of the West Indies, continued the usage of the sub- 

 family name Anaphorinae. In the same year, Smith in his checklist 

 became the first worker to give the group family status as the Anaphor- 

 idae. Like his predecessors Smith failed to give any reasons for his 

 particular ranking, and he also perpetuated Walsingham's error in 

 giving Anaphora priorit}^ over Acrolophus. Walsingham (1897), in a 

 revisional study of the West Indian Microlepidoptera, maintained his 

 category, Anaphorinae, and erected a new West Indian genus, 

 Atopocera, which was later applied to a North American species by 

 Dyar. 



Following a 10-year period which saw little work done on North 

 American acrolophids, Dyar (1900-1903) described eight species and 

 one subspecies under almost as many different generic names of 

 previous authors. He erroneously placed one of these species in 

 Phalonia, a genus of the Phaloniidae. In October 1900 Dyar stated 

 his opinion that the group could hardly be recognized as a family, and 

 that its genera should fall in more naturally with those of the Tineidae. 

 It is to be noted that he followed this plan in his list of 1903. However, 

 in November 1900 Dyar used the subfamily ranking in his title, 

 "New Species of Anaphorinae." Holland (1903) followed Dyar's 

 views in listing the various acrolophid genera among those of the 

 Tineidae. Kearfott (1907) described one acrolophid under Amydria 

 (now Myrmecozela), a closely related genus in the Tineidae. In the 

 same year, Walsingham described his last North American species 

 in this group under Homonymus, a genus he had erected in 1887 for the 

 reception of a species from Argentina. 



Busck (1907-1912) described as new six North American species. 

 His first was placed under Walsingham's genus, Neolophus, erected 

 in 1887, and it was referred to by Busck as an "anaphorid." How- 

 ever, following the description of his second species in 1910, Busck 

 stated: 



I am unable to retain as distinct the several genera erected on the secondary 

 sexual characters of the various forms of palpi in this group. This view is shared 

 by Lord Walsingham and Mr. Durrant, and will be further elaborated in their 

 forthcoming part of Dr. Godman's Biologia Centrali-Americana. 



This and all of Busck's subsequent species were described under 

 Acrolophus. In May 1912 Busck apparently became the first to use 



