96 THE entomologist's record. 



gically considered, the difference in the mouth parts of the imago 

 seems more important. As it is shown only by a single species, so far 

 as known, this one should weigh the rest. But we are not quite un- 

 prepared for such a discovery. The valuable researches of Dr. Chapman 

 have settled the inferior rank of the Pi/raliflae, and Am'ntyDpm affords 

 some leaning to the Trichoptera in the small and single-jointed 

 maxillary palpi, and the reduction of the tongue to a short double 

 filamentary process. It is perhaps Avorthy of note that Hchrank, in 

 1802, restricts the genus Tinea to the I'ljraUdae [Crambiuai'), and, in 

 the breaking up of the Tineina, which now seems imminent, this should 

 be borne in mind, since what Ave now call Tinea and Tineidae may 

 have to be renamed. 



Dr. Packard throughout pays a just tribute to Dr. Chapman's dis- 

 coveries, and recognises their importance. The terms introduced by 

 this authority are retained, and the observations underlying these 

 terms verified as far as the material goes. [The paper on Kriocephala, 

 by Dr. Chapman, Avas unknoAvn to the Avriter in draAving up the 

 " Systema " (August, 1895) ; the sequence therein of the families is, 

 hoAvever, not affected by the fact, the Kriocephalidae being simply not 

 included at the last, as they might have been.] It Avould seem from 

 Dr. Packard's paper, that the term (Uossata, of Fabricius, might come 

 again into use. Certainly many forms of this division are in reality 

 A(jlossata, just as many Frenatae Avant the frenulum. Perhaps the prior 

 designations of Comstock might be retained, and the families Avith 

 double jugum designated as Biju(/atae. The objection to calling the 

 Jvriocep/ialides — Laciniata, and retaining also Comstock's terms, is that 

 these Avould be no longer exclusiA'e. These papers of Dr. Packard are 

 illustrated by large draAvings of pupse and pupal parts, and abound in 

 instructive structural details and comparisons. The result may be 

 summed up in the sentence, that the phylogeny of the Lepidoptera, 

 the connection Avith other orders of luseeta, may be demonstrated from 

 liA'ing forms. The points in Avhich certain Vj/ralidae and loAver moths 

 resemble the Trichoptera are noAV assuming phylogenetic importance. 

 Other points for reflection are offered by Dr. Packard's paper. His 

 quite recent list of the Bombycidks, to Avhich attention Avas called by 

 Dyar, under their old limitation (1864), is at last abandoned, and Ave 

 are giA^en a genealogical tree at the close, Avhich "combines" many 

 of the discoveries of Dyar and Chapman. Another point is, that the 

 tribute in Dr. Packard's papers forms a striking comment upon the 

 obserA'ations of Mr. Hulst, observations Avhich Mr. Dyar euphemistically 

 sets doAvn to an " enthusiastic Americanism." The labours of Dr. 

 Chapman belong to all of us, but they reflect, in particular, the greatest 

 credit upon British entomology. Mr. Hulst's remarks are not 

 American in any true sense ; they are akin to those published in the 

 Entoiiidhit/iral News of Philadelphia, by Mr. Hermann Strecker, and are 

 probably a phenomenon which may diminish in proportion asknoAvledgo 

 and culture become more general. — A. Radcliffe Grote, A.M. 



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