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IX. A revision of the genera Acrolophus, Poet/, and 

 Anaphora, Clem. By The Eight Honble. Lord 

 Walsingham, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Read April 6th, 1887.] 



Plates VII. & VIII. 



About a year ago I received from Mons. Ernile Ragonot, 

 President of the French Entomological Societ}', a box 

 containing thirteen specimens which had the general 

 appearance of the genus Anaphora, Clem. Perhaps, 

 owing to their unlucky number, they had suffered woeful 

 treatment on the journey. On carefully examining the 

 remnants I found myself quite unable to recognise any 

 named species, and at once determined to devote my 

 first week of leisure to a study of the group to which 

 they belonged. The literature of the subject is not 

 voluminous. Taking the genera Acrolophus and Ana- 

 jjltora* together, the number of species described amounts 

 to fourteen only, some of which are already admitted to 

 be synonymous. The peculiar form represented by 

 these genera, having for its chief characteristic hirsute 

 and greatly recurved or elevated palpi, appears to be 

 confined to the two continents of America and to the 

 West Indies, but extending to the Sandwich Islands, 

 the Hawaiian genus Stoeberliinus, Butl., obviously be- 

 longing to the same group. There are probably an 

 infinite number of species scattered throughout the 

 Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. 



In general appearance these insects have a strong- 

 superficial resemblance to certain Asiatic forms chiefly 

 included at present in the Indian genus Alavona, Wlk., 

 but represented also in Africa. The different shape of 



:;: I find on examination that the types of Tirasia granulatella, 

 Walker, from Villa Nova, and Eddara zylinella, Walker, from 

 Jamaica, are both females of some species of the Anaphorince, but 



it is not possible to adopt these generic names without knowing- the 

 .structure of their respective males. 



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