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very prominent. In some the maxillarv palpi are single and scaled, in 

 others bilobed at the end, and furnished with long pencils of hair. 

 Among the species are some with the antennae of the male very strongly 

 pectinated, in others there are tufted-pubescent. In some, the antennal 

 process is long, covered with long hairs and scales, in others the process 

 is hardly indicated. In some, ttiere are 12 veins in the fore wings, in 

 others 1 1 ; in some, the male and female agree in venation, in others 

 they are very widely different. In some the fore wings of the male have 

 a costal fold and a vitreous spot beneath, others have neither. Sometimes 

 vein I of the fore wings is furcate at base, sometimes it is not so. Some 

 have the cell of the hind wing very short, others of the usual length ; 

 some species have ocelli, one at least has none. Some have the hind 

 tibiae with two pairs of spurs, one has the end pair only. Some have the 

 tarsi spinulated the whole length, others have them weakly spined at the 

 end. Some have both wings tufted, some the fore wings only. In some 

 the male uncus is hooked, sharp, slender, forked at base, in one species 

 at least, obtuse, scutelliform. Altogether the subfamily covering abolit 

 two score species gives a pretty wide range of variation, which makes 

 the family a rather difficult one to limit, except by the presence of the 

 unique antennal process. 



The first American species known were described by Prof Zeller in 

 Isis, 1848, and for the two species named by him he erected the genus 

 Tetralopha. Afterwards species were described by Clemens, Zeller, 

 Grote, and myself Mr. Grote first attempted a systematic synopsis of 

 the species, and in the Bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey, Vol. IV. 

 gave the name Epipaschkv to the group, determined new genera, and 

 gave figures of venation of the genera, which, corrected, were published 

 in the N. A. Entomologist. Mr. Meyrick has given a synopsis of the 

 species of Australia and New Zealand, and described in that synopsis a 

 number of genera. 



Those who have endeavored to classify the insects have seemed to 

 diff'er quite widely as to their affinities, and as a consequence have 

 catalogued them in widely separated positions. Guenee places his gtnus 

 Glossina in the Pyralidinie between Aglossa and Asopia. But Guenee 

 knew the female only. Lederer keeps the genus in the same place 

 calling it Siericta, as Glossina was preoccupied, but says he does not 

 know the insects described by Guenee. He, however, has one other 

 species of the Epipaschiitiie and describing it as Deuierolyta conspiaiUis 

 places it near and above Botis, undoubtedly looking upon it as belonging 

 to the Pyralidince. Mr. Meyiick in his works upon the Microle|)idopieia 

 of New Zealand and Australia, discusses the group, calling it ^' Epi- 

 /»a5c///af/c?,'' and concludes it should be catcdogued at the head of the 



