﻿A 
  New 
  Family 
  of 
  Lepidoptera, 
  the 
  Anihelidae 
  419 
  

  

  chitinous 
  bar 
  was 
  developed 
  near 
  the 
  apex, 
  forming 
  a 
  

   cross- 
  vein 
  running 
  obliquely 
  from 
  11 
  across 
  10 
  to 
  9. 
  With 
  

   diminution 
  of 
  size, 
  or 
  more 
  sluggish 
  habits, 
  or 
  both, 
  this 
  

   cross-vein 
  has 
  tended 
  to 
  disappear, 
  but 
  in 
  two 
  archaic 
  

   genera 
  Gephyroneura 
  and 
  Munychryta 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  preserved 
  

   in 
  spite 
  of 
  great 
  reduction 
  in 
  size. 
  

  

  So 
  far 
  as 
  I 
  know, 
  the 
  only 
  other 
  family 
  possessing 
  a 
  

   similar 
  areole, 
  which, 
  however, 
  may 
  not 
  be 
  an 
  homologous 
  

   development, 
  is 
  the 
  Cymatophoridae, 
  and 
  with 
  these 
  the 
  

   Anthelidae 
  cannot 
  be 
  allied, 
  the 
  differences 
  between 
  the 
  

   two 
  families 
  being 
  very 
  great 
  in 
  other 
  respects. 
  

  

  Note. 
  — 
  In 
  the 
  hind-wing 
  of 
  Anthela 
  fermginosn 
  (fig. 
  2) 
  

   the 
  subcostal 
  vein 
  is 
  forked. 
  This 
  is 
  an 
  individual 
  peculi- 
  

   arity 
  of 
  the 
  specimen 
  figured, 
  but 
  important, 
  as 
  it 
  goes 
  to 
  

   prove, 
  what 
  I 
  have 
  previously 
  suspected, 
  that 
  the 
  sub- 
  

   costal 
  is 
  a 
  composite 
  vein. 
  The 
  first 
  radial 
  runs 
  into 
  the 
  

   subcostal 
  in 
  the'hind-wing 
  in 
  many 
  genera 
  of 
  many 
  families, 
  

   but 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  instance 
  I 
  have 
  observed, 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  

   separates 
  again. 
  

  

  