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heterodox. 1 am not aware that I have 

 anywhere expressed such an opinion as 

 is hv inipUcation at least attributed to 

 me in the above quotation as to the 

 position of Anaphora. Mr. Grote 

 was. 1 sujipose. thinliing of some re- 

 inari<s by me in an article in a previous 

 number of Papi/io, which was written 

 in response to one by Lord \Valsiu<^- 

 hani. Ilis Lordship had stated that 

 "It is surelv easier at first sight to sepa- 

 rate these [tineid] genera from those of 

 other families" &c.. than to locate or 

 separate certain other genera of those 

 other families, thus seeming to convey 

 the idea that there is a something, ye i/c 

 sa/s qiioi. about the tineid genei'a 

 referred to b\' him wliich made it 

 comparativeh' eas\ , "at first sight." to 

 refer them to the llncidac ; and if Mr. 

 Grote will look at my paper in I'ap/ii\, 

 a little ni(jre carefully he will see tliat 

 mv remarks upon Anaphora hinge 

 upon the words of Lord Walsiugham. 

 "at first sight ; " and that while I do not 

 deny the tineid atfinities oi Ana phura I 

 was unable to see with Lord Walsing- 

 ham this indefinable and to me inap- 

 jjrcciable something which makes the 

 location of the tineid genera among the 

 tincidac easy "at first sight" as com- 

 jiared with tlu' genera of other families 

 mentioned by his Lordship ; ami I 

 instanced Anaphora as a tineid genus 

 which at iirst sight — by one who was 

 unacquainted with it — was more likely 

 to be referred to the noctuidac than to 

 the tincidie. And I am yet of that 

 opinion. There is some':hing in the 

 size, form, and color, especialh' of the 

 darker species of Anaphora, that "at 



first sight" is much more suggestive of 

 the noctnidac than it is even of the true 

 thieidae. to which examination shows 

 that it lielongs : and if there is anything 

 about Anaphora that "at first siglit," or 

 "second sight" either, shows it to belong 

 to any other section of tincidac than 

 that which contains Tinea proper, 

 1 don't kno\s what it is. (f there is 

 anything under the sun about .liiaphora. 

 or for tliat matter about a true Tittca. 

 say 7". tapetzella^ which at first sight, 

 or upon the most careful examination, 

 suggests that it is more closeh' allied to 

 Gracilaria. Lithocolletis^ Gclcchia . 

 Ccmio.ttoma. or any of the host of 

 smaller tincidac than it is to Xoctiia. I 

 have failed to detect it, and if no 

 resource was left to me but to either 

 place Anaphora in noctuidac. or in the 

 same family with PhyHocnistis or any 

 of the genera of smaller motlis known 

 to nie. then I should unhesitatingly 

 refer Anaphora to the noctuidac. 

 AnapJ/ora no doubt belongs to the 

 tincidac. restricted to the allies of Tinea 

 by Mr. Stainton in his Insecta Britan- 

 nica. V. 3, hut neitiier Lord Walsiug- 

 ham nor Mr. (irote uses the name 

 tincidac in this sense in the papers 

 above quoted. Both, in the papers in 

 Papi/io above mentioned. ha\e discard- 

 ed even Stephens' distinction between 

 tincidac and hypononicntidac. and 

 include under the name tincidac all or 

 nearlv all of tlie genera included by 

 Stephens in both of his families, with 

 some others not mentioned h\ him. 

 thus placing Ccniiostonia. Nepticnla. 

 Tischcria. Pliyllocnisti.t. Aspidisca. 

 I Icliodincs. Litliocollctis. Gracilaria. 



