﻿HISTOKICAL 
  ACCOUNT 
  OF 
  THE 
  ALUCITIDES. 
  73 
  

  

  nu. 
  Caracteres 
  Habituels 
  : 
  Ailes 
  tres-divisees, 
  formant 
  un 
  eventail 
  autour 
  du 
  

   corps 
  ; 
  celui-ci 
  court. 
  Pattes 
  fort 
  epineuses. 
  

  

  Pterophorus, 
  Geoff., 
  Fab., 
  Oliv. 
  (Phalaena, 
  Linn.) 
  : 
  Antennules 
  anterieures 
  

   obsoletes 
  ; 
  posterieures 
  courtes, 
  recourbees, 
  menues 
  subulees, 
  couvertes 
  d'ecailles, 
  

   de 
  trois 
  articles, 
  dont 
  le 
  premier 
  plus 
  grand, 
  les 
  autres 
  presque 
  egaux. 
  Caracteres 
  

   Habituels: 
  Corps 
  etroit, 
  alonge. 
  Ailes 
  tres-ecartees 
  du 
  corps, 
  en 
  forme 
  de 
  bras, 
  

   etroites, 
  divisee. 
  Pattes 
  tres-epineuses. 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  distinct 
  separation 
  of 
  the 
  Omeodids 
  from 
  the 
  

   Alucitids. 
  In 
  1797 
  or 
  1798, 
  Cuvier 
  gives 
  (Tabl. 
  Flementaire, 
  etc., 
  

   p. 
  603) 
  pentadactyla 
  as 
  the 
  type 
  of 
  Alucita, 
  Linn. 
  = 
  Pterophorus, 
  Fab. 
  

   He 
  writes 
  : 
  

  

  Les 
  Pterophores 
  (Pterophorus, 
  Fab.), 
  Alucita, 
  Linn., 
  sont 
  de 
  petites 
  phalenes 
  

   dont 
  les 
  ailes 
  sont 
  divisees 
  en 
  un 
  certain 
  nombre 
  de 
  digitations 
  semblable 
  a 
  autant 
  

   de 
  plumes— 
  Ph. 
  pentadactyla. 
  

  

  In 
  1801, 
  Lamarck 
  cites 
  (Sys. 
  Anim. 
  sans 
  Vert., 
  p. 
  288) 
  pentadactyla 
  

   to 
  Pterophorus, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  year, 
  llliger 
  diagnosed 
  (Sys. 
  Verz. 
  der 
  

   Wien., 
  2nd 
  ed., 
  pp. 
  126 
  et 
  seq.) 
  the 
  superfamily 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Alucita, 
  Linn. 
  (Pterophorus, 
  Fab.). 
  — 
  Larva 
  pedibus 
  sedecim 
  instructa, 
  

   parva, 
  segnis, 
  lata, 
  pilosa. 
  Metamorphosis 
  ut 
  Papilionum, 
  tela 
  nulla. 
  Pupa 
  

   piano 
  alicui 
  filorum 
  duorum 
  opum 
  adhaerente. 
  Imago 
  admodum 
  tenuis 
  ac 
  gracilis, 
  

   alis, 
  saltern 
  posticis, 
  in 
  plumulse 
  (dactylos) 
  fissis, 
  pedibus 
  longissimis 
  — 
  Alucita 
  

   ochrodactyla, 
  A. 
  didactyla, 
  A. 
  chrysodactyla, 
  A. 
  trichodactyla, 
  A. 
  calodactyla, 
  A. 
  

   rhododactyla, 
  A. 
  mictodactyla, 
  A. 
  gonodactyla, 
  A. 
  pterodactyla, 
  A. 
  galactodactyla, 
  

   A. 
  leucodactyla, 
  A. 
  megadactyla, 
  A. 
  pentadactyla, 
  A. 
  hexadactyla. 
  

  

  llliger, 
  wrongly 
  we 
  have 
  no 
  doubt, 
  refers 
  ochrodactylus, 
  Fab., 
  to 
  that 
  of 
  

   the 
  Sys. 
  Verz., 
  1st 
  ed. 
  (see 
  antea), 
  he 
  also 
  further 
  suggests 
  that 
  didac- 
  

   tyla, 
  Linn., 
  Syst. 
  Nat., 
  xiith 
  ed., 
  p. 
  899; 
  Fauna 
  Suec, 
  2nd 
  ed., 
  p. 
  370, 
  

   is 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  didactyla, 
  Linn., 
  Syst. 
  Nat., 
  xth 
  ed., 
  p. 
  542, 
  

   but 
  to 
  rhododactyla, 
  W.V., 
  a 
  conclusion 
  that 
  cannot 
  be 
  accepted. 
  He 
  

   further 
  refers 
  Linne's 
  pterodactyla 
  (fuscas) 
  to 
  the 
  convolvulus-feeding 
  

   pterodactyla, 
  Sys. 
  Verz., 
  but 
  rightly 
  points 
  out 
  that 
  Fabricius 
  is 
  in 
  

   error 
  in 
  referring 
  Geoffroy's 
  figures 
  of 
  monodactyla 
  to 
  the 
  didactyla 
  of 
  

   Linne, 
  and 
  one 
  suspects 
  his 
  yalactodactyla 
  to 
  be 
  another 
  form 
  of 
  

   monodactyla. 
  The 
  foodplant 
  of 
  leucodactyla 
  is 
  again 
  repeated 
  as 
  being 
  

   Pulmonaria 
  officinalis, 
  and, 
  if 
  so, 
  the 
  species 
  should 
  be 
  determined 
  

   with 
  certainty. 
  

  

  In 
  1802, 
  Schrank 
  gives 
  (Fauna 
  Boica, 
  ii., 
  2, 
  pp. 
  139-140) 
  the 
  

   following 
  species 
  in 
  the 
  genus 
  Alucita 
  — 
  A. 
  trichodactyla, 
  W.V., 
  145, 
  

   no. 
  3 
  = 
  Schaen\, 
  lam., 
  93. 
  7 
  (i.e., 
  presumably, 
  didactyla, 
  Linn.) 
  ; 
  A. 
  

   pterodactyla, 
  W.V., 
  297, 
  tab. 
  i., 
  fig. 
  8 
  (i.e., 
  monodactyla, 
  Linn.) 
  ; 
  A. 
  

   megadactyla, 
  W.V., 
  146, 
  no. 
  8 
  (possibly 
  spilodactyla, 
  Curfc., 
  although 
  

   gonodactyla, 
  W.V., 
  was 
  later 
  figured 
  by 
  Hiibner 
  as 
  this 
  species, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  

   determined 
  as 
  nemoralis, 
  H.-S., 
  by 
  Werneburg) 
  ; 
  A. 
  pentadactyla. 
  W.V., 
  

   146, 
  no. 
  9 
  (i.e., 
  pentadactyla, 
  Linn.). 
  It 
  was 
  also, 
  in 
  1802, 
  that 
  

   Latreille 
  made 
  (Histoire 
  Nat., 
  iii., 
  p. 
  418) 
  the 
  Alucitids, 
  the 
  6th 
  (and 
  

   last) 
  family 
  of 
  his 
  classification. 
  He 
  noted 
  them 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Pteropiiorii. 
  — 
  Ailes 
  divisees, 
  otroites. 
  Deux 
  a 
  quatre 
  palpes. 
  Une 
  trompe. 
  

   Antennes 
  simple, 
  setacees. 
  Corps 
  long. 
  Pattes 
  longues, 
  epineuses. 
  

  

  Genus 
  : 
  Pterophorus. 
  — 
  Palpes 
  guere 
  plus 
  longs 
  que 
  la 
  tote, 
  ogalenient 
  oeailleux. 
  

   Corps 
  fort 
  alonge. 
  Ailes 
  tres-otroites 
  — 
  Pterophorus 
  didactylus, 
  V. 
  

  

  Genus: 
  Orneodes. 
  — 
  Palpes 
  fort 
  longs; 
  le 
  second 
  article 
  garni 
  do 
  giandes 
  

   ecailles 
  ; 
  le 
  dernier 
  long, 
  presque 
  nu. 
  Ailes 
  divisees 
  on 
  un 
  grand 
  nombre 
  de 
  pieces, 
  

   formant 
  l'oventail 
  — 
  Pterophorus 
  hexadactylus. 
  

  

  It 
  may 
  be 
  noted 
  that 
  Latreille, 
  like 
  Fabricius, 
  erroneously 
  uses 
  Alucita 
  

   for 
  certain 
  Tineid 
  lepidoptera. 
  In 
  1805, 
  Latreille 
  (op, 
  cit., 
  \i\ 
  ., 
  pp. 
  

   257-258) 
  rediagnosed 
  the 
  two 
  genera 
  into 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  divided 
  the 
  

  

  