the Lepidopterous Family Cots/Jar. 



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modern origin 



long. 



than 



. It 

 the 



features, are points on which I am not prepared to express 

 an opinion without further study. 



Pyralidae. —This family need not detain us 

 is a dominant group of more 

 preceding families. In spite 

 of the frequent presence of 

 maxillary palpi and the three 

 anal veins in the hind-wings, 

 the neuration is of a modern 

 type without any areole and 

 usually without any median 

 veins. In Schoenobius I have 

 observed unbranched median 

 veins slenderly developed in 

 both wings, and probably 

 they would be found in some, 

 other genera if careful search 

 were made. 



We now pass on to the 

 numerous families which have 

 only two anal veins in the 

 hind-wings and one in the 

 fore- wings 



Fiu. 42. — Clania variegata, Snell. 

 I cannot do more than deal with a few of 



these, and that in a summary fashion 



l : \r.. 43.- -Dudgeona actinias, Turn. 

 Abnormal neuration. Compare 

 Fig. 13. 



Fig. 4-1. — Phragmatoecia castaneae, 

 Hb. Abnormal neuration. 

 Compare Fig. 11. 



Lasiocampidae. — This family, however, deserves rather 

 fuller treatment. I have already pointed out that the 

 areole may be lost in two ways, by obsolescence of the 

 chorda, or by coalescence of the chorda with the common 

 stalk of the second and third radials. There is yet a third 

 way. As already mentioned in one example of Dudgeona 



