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  LEPIDOPTERA. 
  

  

  plumes, 
  and 
  illustrated 
  them 
  by 
  the 
  inclusion 
  of 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  species 
  

   as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Pterophorus. 
  — 
  Palpes 
  de 
  la 
  longueur 
  de 
  la 
  tete, 
  egalement 
  fournis 
  d'ecailles 
  : 
  

   ailes 
  alongees, 
  etroites 
  — 
  P. 
  monodactylus, 
  P. 
  didactylus, 
  P. 
  pentadactylus, 
  P. 
  

   rhododactylus, 
  P. 
  albodactylus. 
  

  

  Orneodes. 
  — 
  Palpes 
  plus 
  longs 
  que 
  la 
  tete 
  ; 
  second 
  article 
  plus 
  grand, 
  garni 
  

   d'ecailles 
  ; 
  le 
  dernier 
  alonge, 
  presque 
  nu 
  ; 
  ailes 
  en 
  eventail 
  — 
  0. 
  hexadactylus. 
  

   This 
  grouping 
  Latreille 
  maintained, 
  in 
  1809 
  {Gen. 
  Crust, 
  et 
  Ins., 
  iv., 
  

   pp. 
  233-4). 
  In 
  1806, 
  Hiibner 
  (Tentamen, 
  p. 
  2) 
  gives 
  us 
  the 
  following 
  ; 
  

   Phalanx 
  IX 
  : 
  Alucit^e. 
  

   Tribus 
  1 
  : 
  Indubidatae. 
  

  

  1. 
  Pterophorae 
  — 
  Pterophora 
  pentadactyla 
  

  

  2. 
  Ripidophorae 
  — 
  Ripidophora 
  hexadactyla 
  

  

  but 
  this 
  is 
  only 
  of 
  importance 
  from 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  it 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  

   published 
  long 
  before 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  figures 
  of 
  his 
  plumes 
  in 
  the 
  Eur. 
  

   Schmett., 
  Alucitae, 
  pi. 
  i.-vii., 
  figs. 
  1-38. 
  The 
  exact 
  dates 
  of 
  publication 
  

   of 
  these 
  plates 
  are 
  doubtful, 
  but 
  were 
  possibly 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Plates 
  1-2 
  — 
  1804.— 
  Referred 
  to 
  by 
  Laspeyres 
  in 
  his 
  review 
  of 
  Illiger's 
  edition 
  

   of 
  the 
  Wiener 
  Verzeichniss, 
  in 
  1805 
  (Illiger's 
  Magazin, 
  iv., 
  pp. 
  16-68). 
  Also 
  

   referred 
  to 
  by 
  Haworth, 
  in 
  1811 
  (Lepidoptera 
  Britannica, 
  pp. 
  475 
  et 
  seq.). 
  

  

  Plates 
  3-6— 
  1811-1817. 
  — 
  Referred 
  to 
  by 
  Charpentier, 
  in 
  1818 
  (Verzeichniss 
  

   der 
  europdischen 
  Schmett., 
  p. 
  92) 
  ; 
  also 
  noted 
  by 
  Hiibner 
  himself 
  in 
  1822 
  (Syst.- 
  

   alphabet. 
  Verzeichniss) 
  . 
  

  

  Plate 
  7 
  — 
  1823. 
  — 
  Not 
  mentioned 
  by 
  Hiibner 
  in 
  his 
  Syst. 
  -alphabet. 
  Verzeichniss, 
  

   in 
  1822, 
  but 
  was 
  offered 
  for 
  sale 
  December 
  22nd, 
  1823, 
  in 
  prospectus 
  issued 
  by 
  

   Hiibner 
  on 
  that 
  date 
  of 
  the 
  books 
  he 
  had 
  for 
  sale. 
  

  

  The 
  contents 
  of 
  the 
  plates 
  are 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  — 
  -Plate 
  1 
  : 
  Alucita 
  

   pentad 
  actyla, 
  A. 
  galactod 
  actyla, 
  A. 
  mictodactyla 
  (bipunctid 
  actyla), 
  A. 
  

   pterodactyla 
  (monod 
  actyla), 
  A. 
  leucodactyla.* 
  Plate 
  2 
  : 
  Alucita 
  

   megadactylai 
  (gonodactyla), 
  A. 
  calodactyla\ 
  (zetterstedtii), 
  A. 
  rhododactyla, 
  

   A. 
  trickodactyla, 
  A. 
  hexadactyla. 
  Plate 
  3 
  : 
  Alucita 
  ochrodactyla, 
  A. 
  

   phaeodactyla, 
  A. 
  ptilodactyla 
  (highly 
  coloured 
  pterodactyla— 
  fuscus). 
  

  

  * 
  This 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  doubtful 
  figure. 
  Haworth 
  refers 
  it 
  to 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  lemon- 
  or 
  

   sulphur-coloured 
  species 
  (osteodactyla). 
  It 
  is 
  usually 
  referred 
  to 
  tetiadactyla 
  and 
  

   Hiibner's 
  own 
  reference 
  of 
  the 
  species 
  (Verz., 
  p. 
  431) 
  to 
  Aciptilia 
  suggests 
  most 
  

   strongly 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  meant 
  for 
  this 
  species. 
  

  

  f 
  The 
  megadactyla 
  of 
  Hiibner 
  is 
  no 
  doubt 
  the 
  gonodactyla 
  of 
  Schiffermiiller 
  

   and 
  not 
  the 
  latter's 
  megadactyla, 
  agreeing 
  exactly 
  with 
  his 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  

   former 
  and 
  disagreeing 
  just 
  as 
  completely 
  with 
  his 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  latter 
  which 
  

   is 
  noted 
  as 
  " 
  whitish 
  " 
  in 
  colour. 
  One 
  suspects 
  some 
  mixing 
  of 
  species 
  here, 
  for, 
  

   after 
  the 
  de.-cription 
  of 
  a 
  white 
  species 
  from 
  the 
  collection, 
  it 
  is 
  noted 
  by 
  Fabricius 
  

   as 
  having 
  dark-spotted 
  legs, 
  which 
  gives 
  colour 
  to 
  Werneburg's 
  conclusion 
  that 
  

   the 
  insect 
  might 
  be 
  nemoralis, 
  H.-Sch. 
  The 
  supposition 
  of 
  mixing 
  is 
  further 
  

   borne 
  out 
  by 
  Charpentier, 
  who, 
  in 
  1821, 
  states 
  that 
  Hiibner's 
  megadactyla 
  

   corresponds 
  with 
  the 
  megadactyla 
  of 
  the 
  Vienna 
  collection. 
  Charpentier 
  possibly 
  

   makes 
  a 
  slip 
  when 
  he 
  states 
  that 
  Schiffermiiller' 
  s 
  gonodactyla. 
  is 
  only 
  a 
  worn 
  

   example 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  author's 
  calodactyla 
  (zetterstedtii, 
  Zell.) 
  (an 
  error 
  that 
  could 
  

   easily 
  occur 
  at 
  that 
  time 
  between 
  such 
  closely-allied 
  species 
  as 
  gonodactyla 
  and 
  

   zetterstedtii). 
  

  

  \ 
  Calodactyla 
  of 
  Hiibner 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  a 
  Platyptiliid 
  and 
  agrees 
  absolutely 
  

   with 
  Schiffermiiller's 
  diagnosis 
  ; 
  whilst 
  Charpentier 
  noted 
  (in 
  1821) 
  that 
  Hiibner's 
  

   figure 
  agrees 
  with 
  the 
  insect 
  in 
  the 
  Vienna 
  collection. 
  On 
  the 
  other 
  hand, 
  

   calodactyla, 
  Fab., 
  is 
  described 
  as 
  toothed 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  margin, 
  and 
  is 
  undoubtedly 
  

   the 
  species 
  known 
  as 
  acanthodactyla, 
  Ti\, 
  and 
  Hiibner 
  draws 
  both 
  his 
  cosmodactyla 
  

   and 
  acanthodactyla 
  with 
  such 
  a 
  tooth. 
  A 
  specimen 
  of 
  zetterstedtii, 
  Zell., 
  intheFrey 
  

   collection 
  is 
  almost 
  identical 
  with 
  Hiibner's 
  figure 
  of 
  calodactyla, 
  to 
  which 
  species 
  

   we 
  have 
  no 
  hesitation 
  in 
  referring 
  the 
  Hiibnerian 
  figure. 
  In 
  the 
  Verzeichniss 
  also, 
  

   Hiibner 
  places 
  calodactyla 
  and 
  petradactyla 
  with 
  the 
  untoothed 
  Platyptiliids, 
  

   whilst 
  the 
  toothed 
  cosmodactyla 
  and 
  acanthodactyla, 
  he 
  places 
  with 
  the 
  Oxyptilids 
  

   under 
  the 
  group 
  name 
  Amblyptiliae. 
  

  

  