NORTH AMERICAN ACROLOPHIDAE — HASBROUCK 565 



Zeller described Anaphora scardina as a questionably new species 

 in 1873. At the conclusion of his discussion of Clemens' genus 

 Anaphora, Zeller said of his own series of specimens: "Whether I 

 have Clemens' species among my own before me, I cannot decide 

 with certainty from his descriptions; therefore I am giving the latter 

 under separate names." He then proceeded to describe scardina 

 and hombycina at considerable length. That Zeller was uncertain 

 of the validity of his species, scardina, is evidenced by the fact that 

 immediately beneath its designation at the head of the original 

 description he inserted "? Popeanella Clemens" rather than listing 

 it as "n. sp." He gave the "Vaterland" or locahty as Texas and 

 Carolina, where popeanellus is quite prevalent, and also mentioned 

 that the largest example of all in his collection was from an unknown 

 locality, thus indicating the possibility of a mixture of species. Cham- 

 bers (1878), foUowmg Zeller's note of caution, gave the listing "A. 

 scardina, Zell. =? popeanella, Clem." Walsingham (1887), after 

 studying Zeller's specimens, placed scardina in the synonymy of 

 popeanella, where it has since consistently appeared. 



However, the type material for scardina, now in the British Muse- 

 um (Natural History), presents a considerably different situation. 

 One of the three photographs furnished by Tarns is labeled "scardina 

 Zell., type cJ"' and easily but inconclusively passes for an adult popea- 

 nellus. Likewise, a second photograph labeled "scardina Zell." rep- 

 resents a ventral view of the complete cf genitalia of a specimen which 

 is clearly and unmistakably popeanellus. On the other hand, the third 

 photograph, also representing a set of genitaha and labeled "scardina 

 Zell , type o"," certainly does not represent popeanellus, nor does it 

 agree with any other known North American species of Acrolophus. 

 Hence, it is quite probable that Zeller's scardina is actually a valid 

 species of Acrolophus, although not referable to popeanellus or any 

 other North American species. It also seems fairly certain that Zel- 

 ler's original series of scardina contained at least two species of Acrolo- 

 phus: one, popeanellus, from Texas (also the locality of Clemens' orig- 

 inal specunens of popeanellus) and Carolina; the other, apparently 

 designated by Zeller as the type of scardina, from parts unknown 

 The latter may weU be the large example of unknown origin mentioned 

 in Zeller's original description. 



Although scardina has long been considered an old synonym of 

 popeanellm, the type specimen indicates it does not belong to that 

 segment of the genus occurring north of Mexico. The name is speUed 

 scardinu^ to agree grammaticaUy with its present genus, Acrolophus. 

 Walsingham (1887) described Anaphora morrisoni as a new species 

 on the basis of two <f cf coUected in Florida by Herbert Knowles 

 Morrison. The alar expanse given was 18 mm. He apparently 



