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0. HoFMANN (1898) wrote au excellent article on this family, 

 with twelve figures. 



Having no material for independent investigation, I quote 

 HoFMANN as follows — from which we see that in this well 

 defined, natural family much difference occurs in the pattern, 

 though it shows the fundamental type I. — 



Taeniocainpa gothica L. (I.e. fig. 1, 2) has on the abdomen: 



s. dorsalis (I), s. suhdorsalis (II), s. suprmtigmulis (III), s. post- 

 sjigmulis (IV), s. infmstigmalis (V), s. pedalis (VII) and on the 

 mesothorax : I — IV in an oblique row as mentioned before. I pro- 

 bably would not label them in this way. I take V as s. prostig- 

 inalis, VI then is s. infrastigmalis^ VII = s. pedalis. 



Euaiemidophonis rhododactylus S. V., (1. c. fig. 4) has on tlfe 

 abdomen : 



8. dorsalis, s. suhdorsalis, s. suprastigmalis, s. infrastigmalis, 

 s. poststigmalis, s. basalts, two s. pedales. 



Platyptilia gonadactyla S. V. (1. c. fig. 8) almost entirely agrees 

 with it, but here, as Dyar would have it for all Pterophoridae, 

 s. infrastigmalis is placed on the same tuberculum as s. p>oststig- 

 inalis. Between these setae and the two s. pedales there are three 

 s. basales of which two are placed higher than the third. 



Pterophorus monodactylm L. (1. c. fig. 12) resembles it very 

 closely but VI (i. e. s. hasalis) is absent. 



Leioptilns carphodactylus Hb. var. buphthalmi Hfm. (1. c. fig. 6) 

 agrees with Leioptilns distinctus H. S. (1. c. fig. 9), through the 

 possession of a secondary seta over the stigma. Therefore we 

 might describe this pattern: s. dorsalis, s. infrastigmalis, s. suh- 

 dorsalis sup. and inf. The last-mentioned species has, moreover, 

 one more seta under the stigma, whilst IV and V are not united. 



Aciptilia tetradactyla L. (1. c. fig. 5) has verrucae, but a secon- 

 dary seta suhdorsalis inf. 



On Oxyptilus leonari Stange (1. c. fig. 7) on the other hand, I 

 and II are united to one verruca. 



Platyptilia gonodactyla S. V. (I.e. fig. 11) bears on the me- 

 sothorax: I -f II or according to my view two s. dorsales; 



