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INTRODUCnON 



The sequence of genera and of species within the 

 genus here offered is an attempt to bring together in linear 

 arrangement the forms showing affinities in structure 

 and development. It is only an attempt and I shall 

 quarrel with no one who objects to it. 



When I began this study I had hoped to write a 

 monographic treatise and explore the phylogeny of the 

 family, but I now find that I know so much less than I 

 thought I did and that the accumulated knowledge of 



others is so meager that any attempt along these lines 

 would be a vain and futile performance. 



We don't know what a primitive phycitid was like. 

 We don't know which forms evolved from which, or 

 how. We weren't there. We may surmise; but the 

 guess of one ignoramus is as good as that of another, and 

 there is nothing to be gained from either. I have had 

 to be content with a mere revision. Would that it were 

 more worthy. 



Carl Heineich 



Carl Heinrich (1880-1955) 



This monograph was written by Carl Heinrich in the months following his retirement from 

 Government service in 1949. Upon it he focus: I the extensive knowledge gained during his 36 

 years as entomologist with the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Its publication, toward which 

 the Department of Agriculture has contributed substantially, was undertaken in 1954, and the 

 author had completed his review of the galley proofs at the time of his death, age 75, on May 31, 

 1955. 



A biographical memoir of Carl Heinrich and a bibhography of his scientific writings appeared 

 in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington for October 1955 (vol. 57, No. 5, 

 pp. 249-255). In addition to the present bulletin, the U. S. National Museum has published a 

 number of his papers, of which several, as noted, are now out of priat: 



1921. On some forest Lepidoptera with descrip- 

 tions of new species, larvae, and pupae. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 2305, vol. 57, 

 pp. 53-96, 13 pis., June 17, 1920. (Out 

 of print.) 



1923. Revision of the North American moths of 

 the subfamily Eucosminae of the family 

 Olethreutidae. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 123, iv+298 pp., 1 fig., 59 pis., Apr. 12, 

 1923. (Out of print.) 



1926. Revision of the North American moths of 



the subfamihes Laspeyresiinae and Ole- 

 threutinae. U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 132, 

 iv+216 pp., 2 figs., 76 pis., Feb. 2, 1926. 

 (Out of print.) 



1927. The American moths of the genus Diatraea 



allies. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 2691, 

 vol. 71, Art. 19, 48, pp., 20 pis., Aug. 23, 

 1927. Joint authorship with H. G. Dyar. 

 (Out of print.) 



1929. Notes on some North American moths of the 

 subfamily Eucosminae. Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. No. 2779, vol. 75, Art. 8, 23 pp., 5 

 pis., Apr. 5, 1929. 



1932. Notes on and descriptions of some American 

 moths. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 2879, 

 vol. 79, Art. 13, 16 pp., 1 fig., 7 pis., Aug. 

 10, 1931. 



1938. Moths of the genus Rupela (Pyralididae. 

 Schoenohiinae). Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus. 

 No. 3019, vol. 84, pp. 355-388. 12 pis., 

 July 3, 1937. 



1940. The cactus-feeding Phycitinae: A contribu- 

 tion toward a revision of the American 

 pyralidoid moths of the family Phycitidae. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 3053, vol. 86, 

 pp. 331^13, 29 pis.. Mar. 16, 1939. 



1945. The genus Fundella Zeller: A contribution 

 toward a revision of the American Pyrali- 

 doid moths of the family Phycitidae. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 3190, vol. 96, 

 pp. 105-114. 3 pis.. May 18, 1945. 



