xl Lloyd's natural history. 



isolated at the present day, but there is little doubt that its 

 origin must be traced to the Thyrldidic, a family of the 

 Pyralidina^ not represented in Britain, and hardly in Europe." 



The last English book in which a revised classification of 

 Moths is proposed, is Mr. J. W. Tutt's " British Moths" (1896). 

 Rejecting the old-fashioned, and no longer applicable terms 

 '■^ Macro-Lepidoptera^'' and ^' Micro- Lepidoptem^' he calls the 

 more highly specialised families " Obtecta^," and those less 

 highly specialised "Incompleta^," as proposed by Dr. Chapman. 

 He includes the following families : — 



Obtectte. — Sphiiigides, Saturniides, Bonihycides [or rather 

 Lasiocampides\ Cheloiiides^ Drepamdides^ Pseiido-Bomby- 

 cides \Notodontid(e and Cyinatophofidc^'] Nod u ides, 

 Geomet7'ides, Pyralides, NoIid(E, Nydeolidce^ Fyralides 

 (including Pyralidcc, Phyddce, CrainhidiV, Gelediiidce, 

 PlufellidiV, (Ecophoridce^ Hyponomeutidcv^ ColcophoridcE, &c. ) 



Incomplete. — Micropkrygides, Adelides (including Adelidce^ 

 NepiiculidcE, Lit Jiocollet idee) Pierphorides^ Ilepialides, 

 Zeuzerides, Tortiiddes (including CossidtE and Tortricidcc), 

 Tineides (including Tincidce, PsychidcE, and Sesiidce) ; 

 Codiiiopodidcs, Zygcenides. 



Lastly a group is admitted, called Profo-Lcpidoptera, including 

 only the family Eriocephalidce, formerly included in the 



Mi crop tcr) g idcc. 



In 1895,* Dr. A. S. Packard, one of the most learned 

 and industrious of living American Entomologists, published a 

 most elaborate " Monograph of the Bombycine Moths of 

 America, north of Mexico," part i, Notodontidcv. (National 

 Academy of Sciences), in which he has included a sketch of 

 his present views on the classification of the Lcpidoplera. 



* Tills work was not received in England till 1S96. 



