THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF ORNEODES. 275 
recently, and confirmed by other records. In ‘Ent. Mo. Mag., 
vol. lv, p. 108 (1919), I recorded O. Huebneri from Canada. A 
careful monograph of the Pterophoride of North America, with joint 
authors, Barnes and Lindsey, has just been published (‘ Contri- 
butions to the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of North 
America,’ vol. iv, no. 4); to this is attached also the family 
Orneodide (under the name of Alucitide), including (in the 
judgment of the authors, who had copious material) one species 
only, which they term Alucita montana, Cockerell, with some 
hesitation as to its distinctness from hexradactyla ; they had appa- 
rently not noticed my record of Huebneri. The name montana, 
Cockerell, has no validity; Cockerell never described it, and 
in the only reference quoted (‘ Ent. Mo. Mag.,’ vol. xxv, p. 213) 
he is actually not even proposing the name, but withdrawing it 
as synonymous with hexadactyla. Dr. Lindsey has, however, 
been good enough to send me four Californian specimens from 
the material used for his paper; these are unquestionably not 
hexadactyla, and after careful and detailed comparison with 
Fluebneri (of which, besides my European examples, I have a 
series from South Africa, a specimen from Kashmir, and two 
from Canada), I have satisfied myself that they cannot justly be 
discriminated from it. ‘There is in the species some variability 
and diversity of colour and marking, and the scale-thickening 
of the dark band on the terminal joint of palpi is also rather 
variable, but I am unable to detect any constant distinction 
associated with particular regions, and the variation is no more 
than might be expected in so wide a range of distribution. My 
conclusion from the above evidence is, then, that there is only 
one North American species known at present, and that this is 
Huebneri. The apparent absence of endemie species in North 
America is curious and unexpected, since the genus is fairly well 
represented in South America, and the geographical origin of 
these latter species becomes a difficult problem ; it may provably 
be African. 
Synonymy of North American Pterophoride. 
In the careful paper to which I have referred above I notice 
certain species which the authors, whose studies have been 
generally restricted to the North American fauna, have failed to 
recognise as known elsewhere. Feeble as is the flight of the 
Pterophoride, not a few species are nearly cosmopolitan in range, 
apparently without suspicion of artificial introduction. I had 
already called the attention of the authors to one or two cases 
of identity, which are incorporated in their paper, but the follow- 
ing are additional corrections. 
Platyptilia crenulata, Barnes, is a synonym of brachymorpha, 
Meyr., which occurs throughout Africa, Southern Asia, and the 
Hawaiian Islands. 
