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the Lepidoptera of Australia and New Zealand, and in the paper 

 ajbove referred to he gave most excellent characters to the families 

 and genera. He adopted the family names Pterophoridce and Or- 

 neodidce with the genus Orneodes under the last for hexadactyla 

 and its allies. In his "Handbook of British Lepidoptera" 

 (1895), Meyrick retains substantially the same classification. 

 The latest and one of the most valuable works that I have seen 

 is "Die deutschen Pterophoriden " by Dr. O. Hofmann (1895). 

 In this work we are given for the first time a very good account 

 of the genitalia, and all stages are described in full so far as 

 known. 



The first writer on the North American plume-moths, so far 

 as I am able to learn, was Fitch, in his first " Report on the In- 

 sects of New York," page 145 (1856), where he published eight 

 species, pkicing them under the genus Pterophorus. In 1864, 

 Walker published two species from this country under the same 

 genus, in the " Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Heterocera," Part 30, 

 page 940. In 1869, Riley, in his first " Report on the Insects of 

 Missouri," published one new species and gave a more complete 

 description of one of the species of Fitch. In 1873, Packard 

 described three species from California under the genus Ptero- 

 phorus, in the "Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History," Vol. 

 X., page 265. In the same year Zeller, in his "Beitrage," de- 

 scribed six new species of the North American plume-moths, and 

 in the same paper established a new genus (Scoptonoma) with two 

 new species from Texas. This genus, however, proved to be the 

 same as Lineodes of G-uenee, a Pyralid genus. The next year 

 Zeller described his Leioptilus Mathewianus in his "Lepidoptera 

 der Westkuste Amerika's," page 23. Chambers published Ptero- 

 phorus lacteodactylus in the "Canadian Entomologist," Vol. V., 

 page 265 (1873). 



The most important contribution to our knowledge of the North 

 American species of these insects was given by Lord Walsingham 

 in his " Pterophoridse of California and Oregon," published in 



1880. This work contains full descriptions of forty-one species, 

 'many of them here published for the first time, and all of the 

 species are illustrated in 'colors. Lord Walsingham was so gener- 

 ous as to give me co-types of nearly all of his species. In this 

 same year Miss Murtf eldt described two new species with their early 

 stages in the "American Entomologist," Vol. III., page 235. In 



1881, Mr. Charles Fish described ten species of these moths in the 

 "Canadian Entomologist," Vol. XIII., pages 70 and 140. This 



