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Generic Synopsis of Hawaiian Microlepidoptera 



(Tineina of Walsingham). 



BY OTTO II. SWEZEY. 



These synoptic tables are formulated for a hel]) in the use 

 ■of "Microlepidoptera" of the Fauna TIawaiiensis. The families 

 are given the same as therein, and all genera included which are 

 treated of there. Though imperfect, yet the author considers 

 that these tables will be useful in distinguishing genera, by 

 anyone studying Hawaiian "]\[icros..' Six families are repre- 

 sented, with 57 genera. 



TABLE OF FAMILIES. 



1. Labial palpi mostly short and obtuse (V) TORTRICIDAE. 



Labial palpi mostly long, slender and acute 2. 



■2. Upper surface of forewings with tufts of raised scales 



(IV) CARPOSINIDAE. 



Upper surface of forewings without tufts of raised scales 

 (sometimes present in Hiii)osiiioco)n(i; present in Diplosara) . .S. 



'3. Maxillary palpi rudimentary 4. 



Maxillary palpi developed (absent in I'liilodofia) 5. 



4. Hindwings with 8 more or less distinctly connected with cell, 



termen usually sinuate (I) GELECHIADAB. 



Hindwings with 8 not connected with cell, termen not sinu- 

 ate (II) OECOPHORIDAE. 



5. Forewings with 7 and 8 usually stalked (coincident in Ba- 



tracJiedra, separate in PliiteUa) (III) HYPONOMEUTIDAE. 



Forewings with 7 and 8 usually separate (coincident in Eren- 

 iictis, 8 out of 7 in Opot/ona, 7 and 8 stalked in Srtoiii'jrpha, 

 sometimes stalked in Tinea and Moiiopis) .... (VI) TINEIDAE. 



(I) GELECHIADAE. 



1. Wings much reduced Hodegia. 



Wings normal 2. 



2. Palpi of ^ with strong brush of long hair-scales.. Stoeberhinus. 

 Palpi of ^ not as above 3. 



3. Hindwings with apex pointed, produced 4. 



Hindwings with apex rounded, not produced 5. 



4. Cell of hindwing about % Aristotelia. 



Cell of hindwing little more than Vo Phthorimaea. 



5. $ with tuft of hair in costal fold of hindwing 6. 



^ without above tuft 7. 



6. Antennae bipectinate Ptychothrix. 



Antennae filiform, pubescent Thyrocopa. 



Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. II, No. 3, May. 1910. 



