THE 



TRANSACTIONS 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



OF 



LONDON 



FOE THE YEAR 1886. 



I. On tJic classification of the Pterophoridae, 

 By E. Meyrick, B.A. 



[Read August 5th, 1885.] 



The following notes include (1) an attempt to settle 

 definitely the systematic position and rank of the group, 



(2) a partial revision of the genera contained in it, and 



(3) descriptions of some new exotic species. 



The first question does not appear to me to present 

 anything like the difdculty which is popularly expected 

 of it. The suggestions of one writer that the group 

 should be included amongst the Bomhydna, and of 

 another that it has direct affinity with certain Hymeno- 

 2)tera, I regard as ridiculous conjectures, quite without 

 any reasonable foundation. Others, again, have con- 

 fused the issue by classing among the Ptcrophorida 

 genera which have no real connection with the family. 

 My own conclusion is that the group constitutes a family 

 of VyraUdxna, of similar value with the Botydidce and 

 other allied families, and that it may be placed, together 

 with the Tincodid(c and Oxychirotidce, as I have elsewhere 

 defined them, next the Crambidce and Scopariadce. 



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