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in some cases the existing of the bilobing. In Rhodophaea advenella the 
last member is not on the end of the one below. In Dvuoryctria menda- 
cella and Pempelia ornatella the bilobing is distinct, the end member 
being set nearly at the base of the one below it. In Pempela ornatella 
as in others of the pencil-tufted species where the bilobing does not exist, 
the antepenultimate member is long, filiform, just as it is found in some 
of the Lppaschiinae and the counterpart of its appearance in Oneida 
lunulatis. 
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 process be insisted upon 
as a subfamily characteristic, L@e//a must be catalogued with the Zpc- 
paschinae. 
The frenulum is a secondary sexual character, though one we con- 
sider of very great value, and so far as we have observed, no Phycitid 
has the frenulum double in the Q, as is the case with all Epepaschinae. 
The pectination of the lower median vein of the hind wings separates 
them so far as we are aware from all Phyceidae. But to make this 
peculiarity a basis of subfamily separation seems to us to be giving it an — 
unwarranted importance. Mr. Meyrick (Trans. N. Zealand Inst., Vol. 
XVII, 69, 1884), places in the Scoparinae two genera and in the 
Botidinae one genus, (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., Oct. 1884, pp. 293 and 
328), in which the lower median is pectinated. ‘This peculiarity is not 
made a necessary Dasis of separation in the Zorériczdae, for in spite of 
it, in view of other characteristics, Prof. Fernald and Mr. Meyrick place 
those with and without this distinction in the same subfamily when they 
agree in the possession of the developed genital uncus, (Trans. N. Zea- 
land Inst., Vol. XVII. 141, 1884). 
We can not, of course, make linear catalogues, but from what has 
been said we think in American catalogues the Z7zpaschiinae and Phy- 
ciidae must go together, and that they cannot, without violence, be 
separated. 
In our study of the North American species we have found some 
novel and to us unique characteristics, to which reference has already 
been made. ‘These we will now review more in detail. 
PALPI, 
In these species the most remarkable characteristics are the length of 
this organ, ,and the length and position of the end member. In all cases 
the palpi are long, and when erect, exceed the head. The znd member 
is comparatively long, in some cases very long, and is always heavily 
scaled, more especially in the male. ‘The end member is comparatively 
short, sometimes exeedingly short ; it is variable in shape, sometimes 
