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in some cases the existing of the bilohing. In RJiodophaea advenella the 

 hist member is not on the end of ihe one below. In Dioryctria menda- 

 cella and Pempelia ornatella the bilobing is distinct, the end iiieml)er 

 being set nearly at liie base dT tlie one below it. In Peiupelia ornalclla 

 as in others of the pencil-tufted species where the bilobing does noi exist, 

 the antepenultimate member is long, fiiilo'rm, just as it is found in some 

 of die EpipascJiiinae and the counterpait of its appearance in Oneida 

 lunulalis. 



The antennal process is not possessed by any Phycitid, yet 

 Etiella has a more marked basal antennal protuberance than has 

 Attacapa callipeplelia. Indeed, if the antennal p>roce-s be insisted upon 

 as a subfamily characieiistic, Eliella must be catalogued with the Epi- 

 paschiiiiae. 



The frenulum is a secondary sexual character, though one we con- 

 sider of very great value, and so far as we have ob>erved. no Phycitid 

 has liie frenulum double in the 9; ^^ is the case with all Epipaschiinae. 



riie pectmation of the lower median vein of the hind wings separates 

 them so far as we are aware frcim all Phxcilidae. Put to make this 

 peculiarity a basis of suljfainily separation seems to us to be giving it an 

 unwarranted importance. Mr. Meyrick (Trans. N. Zealand Inst., Vol. 

 W'll. 69, 1884), places in the Sc()pani?iae two genera and in the 

 ^c; //(■////(:? 6' one genus, (Trans. Pint. Soc. Lond., Oct. 1884, pp. 293 and 

 3281, in which the lower median is pectinated. This peculiarity is not 

 m.uie a necessary basis of separation in the Torlrtcidae, for in s[)ite of 

 it, in view of other characteristics, Prof. Fernald and ]\Ir. Meyrick place 

 those with and without this distinction in the same subfamily when they 

 agree in the posstssitai of the develojied genital uncus, (Trans. N. Zea- 

 land Inst., Vol. XVll. 141, 1884). 



We can not, of course, make linear catalogues, but from what has 

 been s lid we think in American catalogues the Epipasc/iiin le and P/iy- 

 citidac must ^o together, ami that they cannot, without violence, be 

 sep.ir;ited. 



In our study of the North American species we have found some 

 novel .md to us unique characteristics to which reference has already 

 been matle. 'I'hese we will iu)w n-view more in detail. 



PALPI. 



In these species the most remarkable characteristics are the length of 

 this (trgan, and the length and position of the end member. In all cases 

 the palpi are long, and when erect, exceed the head. 'Phe 2ud member 

 is comparatively U)ng, in some cases very long, and is always heavily 

 scaled, more especially in the male. 'Phe end member is comparatively 

 short, sometimes exeedingly short ; it is variable in shape, sometimes 



