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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  MUSEUM 
  vol.98 
  

  

  There 
  has 
  been 
  some 
  confusion 
  in 
  the 
  literature 
  regarding 
  the 
  type 
  

   of 
  the 
  genus 
  Leucinodes 
  Guenee. 
  Hampson, 
  applying 
  his 
  first-species 
  

   rule, 
  cited 
  Leucinodes 
  eJegantalis 
  Guenee 
  as 
  its 
  type 
  in 
  his 
  Fauna 
  of 
  

   British 
  India 
  (Moths) 
  (vol. 
  4, 
  p. 
  370, 
  1896). 
  The 
  citation 
  was 
  re- 
  

   peated 
  in 
  his 
  treatment 
  of 
  the 
  subfamily 
  Pyraustinae 
  in 
  the 
  Proceed- 
  

   ings 
  of 
  the 
  Zoological 
  Society 
  of 
  London 
  (1898, 
  p. 
  756) 
  and 
  was 
  fol- 
  

   lowed 
  by 
  A. 
  Klima 
  in 
  the 
  Junk 
  Lepidopterorum 
  Catalogus 
  (pt. 
  94, 
  p. 
  

   302, 
  1939). 
  According 
  to 
  the 
  International 
  Rules 
  of 
  Zoological 
  No- 
  

   menclature, 
  its 
  use 
  is 
  made 
  invalid 
  by 
  the 
  prior 
  citation 
  of 
  Leuciriodes 
  

   orbonalis 
  Guenee 
  as 
  the 
  type 
  by 
  Walker 
  in 
  his 
  Catalogue 
  of 
  Lepidop- 
  

   terous 
  Insects 
  in 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  (vol. 
  17, 
  p. 
  392, 
  1859). 
  There- 
  

   fore, 
  the 
  valid 
  type 
  of 
  Leucinodes 
  Guenee 
  is 
  orbonalis 
  and 
  not 
  elegan- 
  

   talis. 
  

  

  Leucinodes 
  orbonalis 
  is 
  an 
  Old 
  World 
  (Ethiopian 
  and 
  Oriental 
  

   regions) 
  species 
  and 
  was 
  described 
  from 
  one 
  male 
  ("Inde 
  centrale") 
  

   and 
  one 
  female 
  (Java). 
  In 
  Ceylon 
  and 
  India 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  reported 
  as 
  

   a 
  pest 
  of 
  Solanum 
  melongena 
  L. 
  (eggplant). 
  It 
  occurs 
  also 
  in 
  South 
  

   Africa, 
  Burma, 
  Sumatra, 
  China, 
  and 
  the 
  Philippine 
  Islands, 
  but 
  so 
  

   far 
  as 
  is 
  known 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  established 
  in 
  the 
  New 
  World. 
  

  

  This 
  change 
  of 
  type 
  for 
  the 
  genus 
  requires 
  the 
  reassignment 
  of 
  our 
  

   American 
  species 
  heretofore 
  placed 
  in 
  Leucinodes^ 
  since 
  none 
  of 
  them 
  

   are 
  congeneric 
  with 
  orbonalis^ 
  which 
  has 
  the 
  frons 
  with 
  a 
  strong 
  conical 
  

   production 
  ; 
  f 
  orewing 
  with 
  vein 
  10 
  separate 
  from 
  veins 
  8, 
  9 
  ; 
  uncus 
  with 
  

   distal 
  spines 
  dorsal 
  ; 
  harpe 
  with 
  two 
  strong 
  hooks, 
  one 
  originating 
  from 
  

   near 
  base 
  of 
  costa, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  from 
  near 
  middle 
  of 
  lower 
  margin 
  ; 
  

   anellus 
  narrow, 
  acuminate, 
  with 
  two 
  short, 
  oblique, 
  median 
  projections. 
  

   The 
  American 
  species 
  differ 
  from 
  orbonalis 
  in 
  type 
  of 
  frons, 
  venation, 
  

   genitalia, 
  or 
  a 
  combination 
  of 
  them. 
  

  

  Material 
  other 
  than 
  that 
  at 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum 
  was 
  

   made 
  available 
  for 
  study 
  from 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  Cornell 
  University 
  

   by 
  W. 
  T. 
  M. 
  Forbes 
  ; 
  American 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History 
  by 
  C. 
  D. 
  

   Michener 
  ; 
  and 
  Transvaal 
  Museum, 
  Pretoria, 
  South 
  Africa, 
  by 
  A. 
  J. 
  T. 
  

   Janse. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  apparent 
  from 
  the 
  material 
  at 
  hand 
  that 
  a 
  natural 
  grouping 
  of 
  

   the 
  Old 
  World 
  species 
  will 
  require 
  the 
  removal 
  of 
  some 
  from 
  

   Leucinodes. 
  However, 
  since 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  them 
  are 
  not 
  represented 
  in 
  

   the 
  available 
  material, 
  and 
  their 
  types 
  inaccessible 
  at 
  this 
  time, 
  this 
  

   treatment 
  is 
  confined 
  to 
  those 
  species 
  occurring 
  in 
  tlie 
  New 
  World. 
  

   None 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  occurs 
  in 
  both 
  the 
  Old 
  and 
  the 
  New 
  World. 
  All 
  

   the 
  American 
  species, 
  except 
  one, 
  are 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  

   tlie 
  United 
  States 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Since 
  venation 
  is 
  much 
  the 
  same 
  throughout 
  the 
  entire 
  subfamily, 
  

   wdth 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  exceptions, 
  and 
  the 
  third 
  segment 
  of 
  the 
  labial 
  palpus 
  

   different 
  for 
  the 
  sexes, 
  to 
  secure 
  a 
  natural 
  grouping 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  in 
  

  

  