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O. HoFMANN (1898) wi-ote au excellent article on this family, 

 with twelve figures. 



Having- no material for independent investigation, I quote 

 HoFMANN as follows — fi'om which we see that in this well 

 defined, natural family mncli difFerence occurs in the pattern, 

 though it shows the fundamental type I. — 



Tae/niocanipa gothica L. (1. c. fig. 1, 2) has on the abdomen: 



s. dorsidis (I), s. suhdorsalis (II), s. siqjrastignialis (III), s. jjos^- 

 stigmalis (IV), s. infrastignialis (V), s. pedalis (VII) and on the 

 niesothorax : I — IV in an oblique row as mentioned before. I pro- 

 bably would not label them in this way. I take Y as s. ijrostig- 

 malis^ VI tlien is s. infrastignialis, VII = 8. pedalis. 



EacnemidopJmrjis rhododactijhis S. V., (1. c. fig. 4) has on the 

 abdomen : 



8. dorsalis, s. SNbdorS(dis, s. supmstignmlis, s. infrastignialis, 

 s. pxjststigmalis, s. hasalis, two s. pedales. 



Platyptilia gonadactyla S. V. (1. e. fig. 8) almost entirely agrees 

 with it, but liere, as Dyar would have it for all PteropJwridae, 

 s. infrastignialis is placed on the same tuberculum as s. poststig- 

 ntalis. Between these setae and the two s. pedales there are three 

 ó\ hasales of which two are placed higher than the third. 



Fterophorus inonodactglus L. (1. e. fig. 12) resembles it very 

 closely but VI (i. e. s. hasalis) is absent. 



Leioptilus carpJiodactglus Hb. var. bupJdJialnii llfm. (1. c. fig. 6) 

 agrees with Leioptilns distinctus H. S. (1. c. fig. 9), through the 

 possession of a secondary seta over the stigma. Therefore we 

 might describe this pattern : s. dorsalis, s. infrastignialis, s. suh- 

 dorsalis HH/). and inf. The last-mentioned species has, moreover, 

 one more seta under the stigma, wliilst IV and V are not united. 



Aciptilia tetradactgla L. (1. e. fig. 5) has verrucae, but a secon- 

 dary seta sid><l()rs(di.s inf. 



On Oxgptilns leonari Stange (1. c. fig. 7) on the other hand, I 

 and II are united to one verruca. 



Platyptilia gotiodactyla S. V. (1. c. fig. 1 1 ) bears on the nie- 

 sothorax : I ~\- II or according to my view two .s. dorsale-s ; 



