158 Lord Walsiugham's revision of the 



with the points closely approximate ; differing very decidedly in 

 form from that of morrisorri, from which species the whole insect 

 is otherwise scarcely distinguishable. Exp. al. 18 mm. 



Florida {Morrison) ; two males. 



Anaphora pusilla, Z. (PI. VIII. , fig. 13). 



Zell., Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss., xiii., 196—7 (1877). 



"Parva; antennis $ arete serratis, palpisprseterbasimteretibus, 

 apice barbato ; alis aut latis, rotundatis, bruimescentibiis, macula 

 venae transversae una, duabus plicae margineque postico nigro- 

 fuscis. <J." 



The following is a translation of Zeller's description : — 



" The smallest species known to me ; with broad wings, and very 

 similar in colour and pattern to my A. scardlna; but it differs 

 from all others in the naked palpi, only furnished with a tuft of 

 hair-like scales at the end.* 



" Smaller than Depressaria applana. Body brown. Palpi 

 recurved to the end of the roughly-scaled thorax, cylindrical, 

 clothed with short thickly appressed scales, very pale brownish, the 

 basal joint thickened by longer raised scales, and for the most part 

 dark brown ; the terminal joint ends in a compressed brown brush 

 of scales. Antenna? very pale brown, compressed, the under 

 surface very closely serrated, pubescent. Abdomen brownish grey. 

 Legs pale brownish grey, front femora and tibiae brownish, the 

 middle tibiae only of this colour outwardly. Fore wings 3f lines 

 long,f broad, rather widened behind, with a well-marked tip, and 

 gradually rounded hind margin, pale greyish brown, palest on the 

 inner marginal half; the hinder three-quarters of the costa is 

 marked with obsolete dark dots. The markings consist of three 



* To this character, somewhat prominently mentioned by Zeller, 

 I am not disposed to attach any great importance. In a series of 

 A. popeanella, I find the palpi in many different positions, and 

 greatly varying in the degree to which they are denuded. Some 

 have precisely the appearance of Zeller's type of A. pusilla, and I 

 cannot but regard the absence of long scales on the first and second 

 joints of the palpi in that species as the result of denudation. 

 These remarks do not apply to the genus Stoeberhinus, Butler 

 (Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1882, p. 402), founded on a somewhat 

 similar peculiarity. The palpi of the typo of Stoeberhinus, 

 although probably not quite in a natural position when erect, are 

 quite natural in having their stem smoothly scaled, the apical joint 

 only brush-like. 



) The type-specimen measures 15A mm. 



