VI., page 319, in which he sinks his genus Adactyla and aflopts 

 Hiibner's Agdistis^ and establishes the genus Deuterocopns for the 

 species tengstro&mi of Java. 



In 1840, Zetterstedt, in his " Insecta Laponica," placed all his 

 plume-moths under the genus Alucita, but in a note refers to Or- 

 neodes hexadactyla indicating his adoption of this generic name. 

 Herrich-Schseffer, in his " Schmetterlinge von Europa," Vol. V., 

 published in 1853-55, follows the classification of Zeller. Stain- 

 ton, in his "Manual of British Butterflies and Moths" (1859), 

 adopted the generic name Adactyla for bennetii, Pteropltoms for 

 rliododactylus and its allies and Alucita for polydactyla. 



In 1859, Wallengren published his work on the Scandinavian 

 plume-moths, which, like Zeller's works, marked an era in the 

 classification of these insects. Wallengren followed Zeller in 

 dividing them into the Pterophoridce and Alucitina, unddr the first 

 of which he established four new genera, and used, in addition to 

 these, five genera established by earlier authors. Under Alucitina 

 he adopted the genus Alucita for hexadactyla. 



In 1864, Walker published Part 30 of his "List of the Lepi- 

 dopterous Insects in the British Museum," in which he refers to 

 all the described species of the plume-moths, and added thirty- 

 five new species and two new genera founded on new species from 

 Ega, South America. In this work Walker followed the classifi- 

 cation of Zeller. 



In 1869, Dr. Jordan, in the "Entomologist's Monthly Maga- 

 zine," Vol. VI., pages 119 and 149, gave a review of Wallengren's 

 work, referred to above, which contains valuable information. 

 Mr. South has given a most interesting and valuable series of 

 illustrated papers on the early stages, habits and food plants of 

 the British plume-moths in the " Entomologist," Vol. XIV. and 

 following volumes. Tutt's "Monograph of the Pterophorina of 

 Britain " is also a valuable paper on the British plume-moths. In 

 1877, Dr. Wocke, in "Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands und der 

 Schweiz," Vol. II., Part 2, followed very closely the classification 

 of Wallengren. In 1886, Leech, in his British Pyralides," in- 

 cluding the Pterophoridse published in 1886, uses the super- family 

 Pterophori with the families Pterophoridce and Alucitida* under it. 



Meyrick, in his paper " On the Classification of the Pyralidina 

 of the European Fauna," published in 1890, in the " Transactions 

 of the Entomological Society of London," placed these insects as 

 families under the super-family Pyralidina. Mr. Meyrick had 

 already made critical studies on these insects in his researches on 



