﻿HISTOKICAL 
  ACCOUNT 
  OF 
  THE 
  ALUCITIDES. 
  71 
  

  

  dactyla, 
  A. 
  pentadactyla 
  and 
  A. 
  Jieterodactyla, 
  whilst, 
  in 
  1771, 
  De 
  Geer 
  

   describes 
  and 
  figures 
  (Mem. 
  Hist. 
  Insectes, 
  ii., 
  p. 
  260) 
  Alucita 
  didac- 
  

   tyla, 
  L., 
  and 
  A. 
  ptero 
  dactyla, 
  L., 
  which 
  were 
  renamed 
  by 
  Retzius 
  (Gen. 
  

   et 
  Spec. 
  Insect., 
  p. 
  35), 
  in 
  1783, 
  albofasciatus 
  and 
  f 
  uncus 
  respectively. 
  

   In 
  1772, 
  Bechmann 
  gives 
  (Linn. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  in 
  Epit., 
  p. 
  168) 
  under 
  

   Phalaena. 
  Alucita 
  — 
  didactyla, 
  pentadactyla 
  and 
  hexadactyla. 
  In 
  1775, 
  

   Fabricius 
  followed 
  (Syst. 
  Ent., 
  pp. 
  671-672) 
  Geoffroy, 
  in 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  

   Pterophorus, 
  and 
  unaccountably 
  refers 
  some 
  twenty 
  species 
  of 
  Tineina 
  

   (sens, 
  lot.) 
  to 
  Alucita. 
  He 
  diagnoses 
  Pterophorus 
  as 
  : 
  

  

  Palpi 
  lineares. 
  Lingua 
  exserta, 
  membranacea. 
  Antennse 
  setaceee 
  -Ptero- 
  

   phorus 
  monodactylus, 
  P. 
  didactylus, 
  P. 
  tridactylus, 
  P. 
  tesseradactylus, 
  P. 
  

   pterodactylus, 
  P. 
  pentadactylus 
  and 
  P. 
  hexadactylus. 
  

  

  In 
  1775, 
  SchifTermiiller 
  and 
  Denis 
  published 
  the 
  ScJimett. 
  Wien. 
  

   (republished 
  in 
  1776 
  as 
  the 
  Systematise-lies 
  Verzeichniss), 
  and 
  enumerated 
  

   (pp. 
  144-146) 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  Alucitae, 
  the 
  following 
  species 
  : 
  — 
  Alucita 
  

   ochrodactyla 
  (Blass 
  rothlichgelbes 
  Geistchen), 
  A. 
  didactyla, 
  L., 
  A. 
  

   trichodactyla 
  (Braunes 
  weissgestrichtes 
  Geistchen), 
  A. 
  calodactyla 
  

   (Dunkelbraun, 
  und 
  oraniengelbgemischtes 
  Geistchen), 
  A. 
  rhododactyla 
  

   (Heckrosen 
  Geistchen, 
  larv. 
  Rosa 
  canina), 
  A. 
  pterodactyla, 
  L. 
  (Le 
  

   Pterophore 
  brun, 
  Geoff., 
  larv. 
  Convolrulo 
  arrensi, 
  pi. 
  \a, 
  fig. 
  8; 
  pi. 
  ib, 
  

   fig. 
  8), 
  A. 
  leucodactyla 
  (larv. 
  Pulmonaria 
  officinale), 
  A. 
  meyadactyla 
  

   (Weisslichtes 
  braunlichtgeflecktes 
  Geistchen), 
  A. 
  pentadactyla, 
  L., 
  and 
  

   A. 
  hexadactyla, 
  Linn. 
  On 
  p. 
  320, 
  these 
  authors 
  further 
  add 
  A. 
  

   chrysodactyla 
  (Braunes 
  Geistchen 
  mit 
  goldglanzen 
  den 
  Querstrichchen), 
  

   A. 
  mictodactyla 
  (Flachsbliithfarben, 
  bleichroth 
  und 
  braungemischtes 
  

   Geistchen), 
  A. 
  gonodactyla 
  (Braunlichtweisses 
  Geistchen 
  mit 
  einem 
  

   diistem 
  Dreyeckfieckchen), 
  A. 
  galactodactyla 
  (Milchrahmfarbenes 
  

   Geistchen 
  mit 
  einem 
  diistern 
  Puncte). 
  In 
  1776, 
  Sulzer 
  described 
  and 
  

   figured 
  (Geschichte 
  der 
  Insecten, 
  p. 
  163) 
  three 
  species 
  — 
  Alucita 
  diptera 
  

   (= 
  gonodactyla) 
  , 
  A. 
  tetradactyla 
  ( 
  — 
  monodactyla), 
  A. 
  parado.va 
  (evidently 
  

   not 
  a 
  plume), 
  whilst, 
  in 
  1777, 
  Scopoli 
  gives 
  (Introductio 
  Hist. 
  Nat., 
  p. 
  

   428) 
  the 
  following 
  generic 
  diagnosis 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Aloe 
  saltern 
  posticae 
  laciniatse. 
  Pedes 
  longi 
  — 
  Alucita, 
  Schiffermiiller. 
  

   Although 
  Scopoli 
  cites 
  no 
  types, 
  he 
  evidently 
  restricts 
  the 
  genus 
  to 
  

   the 
  long-legged 
  plumes, 
  i.e., 
  to 
  the 
  superfamily 
  we 
  are 
  here 
  treating, 
  

   and 
  excludes 
  the 
  Orneodids. 
  In 
  1779, 
  Leske 
  gives 
  (Anfangsgr, 
  

   Naturg., 
  p. 
  464) 
  only 
  pentadactyla 
  to 
  illustrate 
  his 
  Phalama 
  Alucita 
  : 
  in 
  

   the 
  same 
  year 
  Blumenbach 
  notes 
  (Handb. 
  Nat., 
  p. 
  372) 
  hexadactyla 
  as 
  

   typical 
  of 
  Alucita. 
  In 
  1781, 
  Barbut 
  makes 
  (Genera 
  Insert. 
  Linn., 
  etc.) 
  

   pentadactyla, 
  Linn., 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Alucita, 
  whilst, 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   year, 
  Goze 
  collected 
  (Ent. 
  Beit., 
  iii., 
  pt. 
  4, 
  pp. 
  171 
  et 
  seq.) 
  the 
  various 
  

   species 
  already 
  described, 
  with 
  their 
  synonymy, 
  but 
  he 
  appears 
  to 
  use 
  

   no 
  discrimination 
  in 
  the 
  references 
  attached 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  name. 
  He 
  

   dealt 
  with 
  22 
  names 
  as 
  species. 
  In 
  1785, 
  Geoffroy, 
  in 
  Fourcroy's 
  Ent, 
  

   Paris., 
  ii., 
  p. 
  256, 
  named 
  the 
  species 
  he 
  described 
  in 
  1762 
  (Hist, 
  des 
  

   Insectes, 
  ii., 
  p. 
  90) 
  pentadactyla 
  and 
  didactyla 
  ( 
  = 
  monodactyla). 
  In 
  L787, 
  

   Fabricius 
  followed 
  (Mantissa, 
  pp. 
  258-259) 
  his 
  species-grouping 
  of 
  1775 
  

   for 
  Alucita 
  and 
  Pterophorus 
  (sec 
  supra) 
  but 
  included 
  the 
  following 
  

   species 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  genus, 
  riz., 
  Pterophorus 
  monodactylus, 
  l\ 
  ochrodac- 
  

   tylus, 
  P. 
  didactylusj 
  l\ 
  calodactylus, 
  /'. 
  tridactylus, 
  l\ 
  rhododactylus, 
  

   P. 
  tesseradactylus, 
  I\ 
  pterodactylus, 
  l\ 
  migadactylus, 
  P, 
  pentadactylus 
  

   and 
  /'. 
  hexadactylus. 
  We 
  know 
  that, 
  between 
  1776 
  and 
  1787, 
  

   Fabricius 
  had 
  been 
  to 
  Vienna 
  and 
  seen 
  the 
  insects 
  in 
  Schiffermiiller'a 
  

  

  