Proceedings of 
the United States 
National Museum 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION + WASHINGTON, D.C. 
Volume 113 1962 Number 3457 
NEOTROPICAL MICROLEPIDOPTERA, I and IT 
By J. F. Gates CLARKE 
The project reported in this series of papers, to be published under 
the title ‘Neotropical Microlepidoptera,”’ was initiated with the aid 
of a grant from the National Science Foundation for the purpose of 
increasing the knowledge of the fauna of this vast and interesting 
geographical region. The grant has enabled me to collect in South 
America a substantial number of specimens of these small moths. 
To these will be added, for the purposes of this study, other material 
that has accumulated over the years in the U.S. National Museum. 
It is my intention to describe the many novelties and eventually to 
revise the groups as time will permit. 
I. THE GENUS HOMOEKOPREPES WALSINGHAM 
(LEPIDOPTERA: BLASTODACNIDAE) 
In 1909, Thomas de Grey, Lord Walsingham, established the genus 
Homoeoprepes, for trochiloides, from Costa Rica, a species described 
as new at the same time, and placed it in the family Lavernidae. 
When he described this species and genus Walsingham remarked: 
“The specimen is unfortunately in very poor condition, but it is of 
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