Pyrahde. Lord, Walsingham, in describing the very pecu'iar species 
Canodomus hockingi, says that Mr. F. Moore suggested to him that the 
genus was allied to the European genus Ag/ossa and that he agrees with 
him. So far every systematist dealing with Australian and East Indian 
material places the group in the neighborhood of Ag/ossa, and generally 
all agree that it is very closely akin to that genus. 
But on the other hand Prof. Zeller regarded Ze/ralopha as a Phycitid. 
Clemens placed /prpaschia among the Deltoids by mistake, but put the 
other species he describes under the heading ‘‘ Phycz/es.” Mr. Grote 
separates the species from the ‘‘ Phycidz,” but places them just before 
that subfamily, while remarking they have certain affinities to the Gad/- 
lerud@. These all agree that the Zpcpaschune find their nearest allies in 
Phyciide. 
The determinations seem to have been made as the writers had or 
had not possession of the American, especially the 11-veined species. 
Without these species the affinities have seemed to be mostly with the 
Pyralidine. With these, it seems, the systematists could not remove the 
the group from the Phyciéide. 
We are not in possession of the East Indian or Australian species, 
and so are unable to make any statements based upon personal exam- 
ination of them. But with the descriptions of Mr. Meyrick and Lord 
Walsingham, and having in our possession probably all the American 
species, we have, we think, a solution of the systematic difficulty, 
Mr. Meyrick, in a paper upon the Classification of Australian Pyra- 
lidina, (\rans. Ent. Soc. Lond., Dec. 1885, p. 421), says, ‘‘I think the 
Pycidide may be regarded as a development of the Gadleride” ; and 
again further on, ‘‘The Pyrahdide and Epipaschiade are referable to a 
common ancestor very little removed, and the same can be said of the 
Scoparide and Cramlide : whilst the Galleride come from somewhere 
between these two presumptive ancestors. ” 
Personally, we fail to see any evidence of a possible development of 
the Phycitide from the Gallerude, ‘The peculiarities of the PAycztide@ in 
venation, wing shape, maxillary palpi, labial palpi and antennal struct- 
ure have no indications in the Ga@lerade; but in all these we have 
kindred, if not identical developments in the Epizpaschune, At the same 
time there is in many respects a likeness to the Pyralidine, so that we 
would connect the PAycitide with the Pyraldime through the Epzpasch- 
inc ; or perhaps the latter is the ancestral and now nearly obsolete stem, 
from which in different directions the other two have arisen. The 
species which the old world furnishes, show a marked relationship to 
the higher Pyralids, but the American species show even more decided 
leanings to the Phycrfide, so decided indeed that one is almost forced 
