138 Lord Walsinghara's revision of the 



the palpi and of the anal appendages usually serves to 

 separate them with precision, although their relation- 

 ship is probably not remote. A discussion of the 

 affinities of Alavona must be reserved for a separate 

 paper. The genera now under revision may conveniently 

 be placed in a subfamily of the Tineidce under the name 

 Anaphorince, but no arbitrary limitations can be placed 

 upon this subfamily without a careful study of the 

 structural characters of several presumably allied genera, 

 such as Tiquadra, Walk., Amydria, Clem., Setomorpha, 

 Z., &c. 



The description of the larva of Anaphora popeanclla 

 ("agrotipennella"), contributed by Miss Murtfeldt to the 

 ' Canadian Entomologist,' vol. viii., pp. 185 - 6, shows 

 that the "thoracic legs" are "unusually long," that 

 the " segmentation " is " strongly marked," and that the 

 whole larva " tapers posteriorly from its greatest 

 diameter at the head and first joint." The colour is 

 described as "a dark purple-brown, the general surface 

 dull, having the appearance of very fine stippling, but 

 variegated with conspicuous, slightly elevated, polished 

 spots, eight on each thoracic, and ten on each abdominal 

 joint." " Head horizontal, broad and thick, of a highly 

 polished black colour, the triangular face outlined by a 

 fine line of brown. ' Its habits are decidedly peculiar, 

 and remind one rather of a trap-door spider than a 

 lepidopterous insect. It inhabited a tough silken gallery, 

 "\vhi L e and smooth inside," "which had an open 

 entrance at the surface of the ground, from w 7 hich its 

 inmate emerged at night to feed " upon white clover. 

 " The chrysalis was slender, elongate, the abdominal 

 segments sharply edged but not serrated, and of a 

 mahogany-brown colour. The palpal sheaths conspicuous, 

 extending down on the ventral side as far as those of 

 the antennae." The chrysalis was ultimately found in 

 the middle of the long subterranean silken gallery. 



These larval habits, as well as the differently-formed 

 sexual appendages and palpi seem to separate Anaphora 

 and its allies from Tiquadra, Walk., which, under the 

 name Acureuta, is described by Zeller (Horas Soc. Ent. 

 Boss, xiii., p. 201) as having a case-bearing larva. 



No great difficulty is likely to arise in distinguishing 

 all other known or rather described genera from those 

 included in this paper; but intermediate forms may 



