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least if these two species are true Æ/yaroptilide. I am, however, no- 
Trichopterist, and am not competent to decide the question. It seems- 
to me, however, from an examination of such specimens as, I have seen, 
and from such study as I have been able to give to Trichoptera, that they 
are more nearly allied, for instance, to Zzvea than to Phryganea, that they 
do not differ from other 7?reina more than other genera of that family 
differ from each other, and that they differ from other Trichoptera fully as. 
much as they do from any Zimezna. I speak only of the imago—for the- 
larvæ of Clymene and Cyllene are unknown—Trichoptera, and especially 
fTydroptila, seems to me a very heterogeneous assemblage. 
Referring the reader to the published accounts of Clymene and. 
Cyllene on previous pages of this volume, I add the following notes as. 
bearing on their Trichopterous affinities. :— 
The most striking character of both species, and that which first 
suggested doubts of their Lepidopterous affinities, is the clothing. Both 
are clothed with short stiff or scale-like hairs, instead of true scales, of 
which I have not been able to denude the wings except by boiling in 
potash. Many of these hairs are reversed, looking as if brushed back-- 
wards ; and, in C/ymene especially, the Patagia are comparatively naked 
and are clothed with rather long stiff hairs or bristles. I have found both: 
species in the same localities in company with each other and with 
Gelechia, Lithocolletis and other true Lepidoptera, resting upon fences and. 
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trunks of trees, in the dryest situations to be found in this well watered 
region. Of CyZene I have dissected both ¢ and 2; of Clymene only 
the 2. In both the antennz are moniliform. 
Cyllene.—Anterior tibia spurless ; intermediate ones with two apical. 
spurs, one of whichis small; posterior with one long median spur, and. 
two short apical ones, one of which is very short. Basal joint of the 
antenne small; ocelli none; maxillary palpi 3 (or 4?) jointed (if four 
the basal one is very minute and indistinct), the last joint being slender 
and longer than either of the others. I was not able to detect the 
presence of labial palpi, even when the head was severed carefully from 
the body and boiled over the lamp on a glass slip under the thin glass. 
cover. Anterior wings pointed ; posterior wings with the costa excised. 
from before the middle to the tip ; cilia long. 
Clymene.—Basal joint of the antennæ swollen; ocellinone. In the 
diagnosis, ante p. 114, I have stated that there is no tongue. ‘This is. 
scarcely correct; there is a minute, conical, fleshy protuberance which I 
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