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auain. (llaucoplcriix is phiced al»ovc Oirsia iuid Lithosfcge, tluiugli cNidnitly 

 lower lliaii tlic latter t\v(i genera. 



The iffcal merit of lliil)iier's classilicatioii is liis recognition of many 

 subdivisions of tin' liuuilies (in Lalreille's sense) of the Lepiih>|itcra. and the 

 snl)divisinn into groups which correspond to mo(h'rii ideas ot a genus. I 

 have found it necessary to set aside many moih'rn genera, and adojjt lliih- 

 uer's names for them as fairly entitled to recognition. 



In 1S19. Saniouelle, in the "Entomologists' Useful Compcnidium," gave 

 the i(.)llowing arrangement: rhahmlda:, stirps i, larva with twelve feet, 

 Pluilccnu margarifana ; stirps ii, larva w^itli ten (wA, Hipparckus, Biqndus, 

 Geoiiiefra, Ourapteri/x, Biston, Abiuxan. 



In 182o, LatreilU', in his ''Families Naturelles,'^ left out of his VhiiUe- 

 nifex, whicli he regards as simply a tribe of liis linnily A'ocfurnn, end)racing 

 all the moths below the Sphinges, the Pldfyptencina;, and followed the same 

 arrangement of the true Phalcsnidce as he proposed in l>-()7. 



T\ni Phala/iik'.s avo strangely placed between the yo/V/vVT.v, com|irising 

 the modern Deltoids (in part) and Pyralid.s (in part) and (' ramhiteti . 



Latreille's arrangement as regards the succession of genera is certainly 

 nuich inferior to that of Lim)a?us, and his conceptions of the families of the 

 Lepidoptera much less carefully elaborated than in other orders of insects. 

 In the "Families Naturelles" he retrogrades in his views regarding a iiiniily, 

 as applied to the Lepidoptera, as since 1807 he considers the Phakmiks as 

 tbrming the '' Familia octuva" of the Lepidoptera. 



In 1827, Treitschke, in the continuation of Ochsenheimer's " SchmeUer- 

 linge von Eurojja'\ uses the term Geomdra: for the group, and makes no sub- 



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divisions above genera. He beirins the description of the genera with 

 Enuomos, and the rennuning genera follow on, thus: Acmna {UnqHeryx), 

 Ellopki, (lcomctra,Aspilatcs, Cwcallis, Gnophos, Boanina,Amphuliis7js, P.soclos, 

 Fulunm, Cliesias, Cabcra. 



In 1S29, Diiponehel, in the '' Histoirc Naturelle (les Lrpidopthrs dt^s 

 France', IV, proposed the following division of the VhaUmklm into forty- 



eight genera 



I. Chenilles a quatorze pattes — Rumia. 

 11. Chenilles h douze pattes — Metrucnwpa. 



III. Chenilles a dix pattes— £«fflo»/«.s-, Jliiiura, Cioadt'is, Angrnma 

 Euri/mcnf, Acentia, PhUohia, Epione, Tr'nnandra, Heiiiif/ira, Gfometra, Am- 



