﻿492 
  BRITISH 
  LEPIDOPTERA. 
  

  

  characters 
  for 
  various 
  species 
  from 
  localities 
  as 
  far 
  distant 
  as 
  the 
  Cape 
  

   de 
  Verde 
  Islands, 
  Queensland 
  and 
  New 
  Guinea, 
  although 
  he 
  rightly 
  

   acknowledges 
  that 
  he 
  does 
  not 
  know 
  whether 
  the 
  generic 
  name 
  

   rightly 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  species 
  he 
  describes. 
  One 
  suspects 
  not, 
  at 
  any 
  

   rate, 
  in 
  the 
  cases 
  of 
  scythrodes 
  and 
  ceramodes, 
  and 
  possibly 
  of 
  many 
  

   more. 
  In 
  his 
  Handbook, 
  p. 
  431, 
  he 
  gives 
  " 
  a 
  slight 
  black 
  scale-tooth 
  

   in 
  dorsal 
  cilia 
  of 
  3rd 
  segment 
  of 
  hindwing" 
  as 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  characters 
  of 
  

   the 
  genus 
  in 
  which 
  he 
  places 
  pallidum, 
  which 
  is, 
  however, 
  without 
  the 
  

   scale-tooth. 
  That 
  palud 
  urn 
  belongs 
  to 
  the 
  American 
  genus 
  we 
  are 
  not 
  

   inclined 
  at 
  all 
  to 
  grant, 
  and, 
  for 
  our 
  European 
  species 
  without 
  the 
  

   scale-tuft 
  on 
  the 
  3rd 
  plumule 
  of 
  the 
  hindwing, 
  we 
  created, 
  in 
  1905, 
  

   the 
  genus 
  Buckleria. 
  Although 
  we 
  do 
  not 
  think 
  Meyrick 
  was 
  right 
  in 
  

   the 
  use 
  of 
  the 
  name 
  Trichoptilus, 
  we 
  are 
  fully 
  in 
  agreement 
  with 
  him 
  

   in 
  following 
  Hofmann 
  in 
  bringing 
  it 
  into 
  close 
  proximity 
  with 
  his 
  

   genus 
  Oxyptilus, 
  for 
  even 
  he 
  had, 
  in 
  1886, 
  followed 
  (Trans. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  

   Lond.j 
  p. 
  6) 
  his 
  predecessors 
  in 
  keeping 
  the 
  insect 
  close 
  to 
  Aciptilia. 
  

   That 
  Meyrick's 
  diagnosis 
  of 
  Trichoptilus 
  applies 
  to 
  the 
  whole 
  of 
  the 
  

   Buckleriid 
  group, 
  or 
  tribe, 
  is 
  clear 
  from 
  his 
  description 
  {Trans. 
  Ent. 
  

   Soc. 
  Lond., 
  1890, 
  p. 
  484), 
  which 
  reads 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  Face 
  without 
  tuft, 
  rounded; 
  ocelli 
  obsolete; 
  tongue 
  developed. 
  Antennas 
  

   two-thirds 
  ; 
  in 
  J 
  ciliated 
  (one-third 
  to 
  two-thirds). 
  Labial 
  palpi 
  moderate, 
  

   ascending, 
  second 
  joint 
  with 
  short 
  projecting 
  scales 
  beneath, 
  tending 
  to 
  

   form 
  a 
  short 
  angular 
  apical 
  tuft, 
  terminal 
  joint 
  short 
  or 
  long, 
  filiform, 
  tolerably 
  

   pointed. 
  Maxillary 
  palpi 
  obsolete. 
  Tibia? 
  thickened 
  with 
  scales 
  on 
  origin 
  of 
  

   spurs, 
  outer 
  spurs 
  nearly 
  equal 
  inner. 
  Forewings 
  bifid, 
  cleft 
  from 
  before 
  middle 
  ; 
  

   vein 
  2 
  out 
  of 
  4 
  or 
  absent, 
  3 
  absent, 
  5 
  and. 
  6 
  extremely 
  short, 
  7 
  absent, 
  9 
  absent, 
  

   10 
  from 
  near 
  8 
  or 
  absent, 
  11 
  from 
  near 
  8, 
  loug. 
  Hindwings 
  trifid, 
  3rd 
  segment 
  

   with 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  developed 
  tooth 
  of 
  black 
  scales 
  in 
  dorsal 
  cilia, 
  often 
  slight 
  ; 
  

   vein 
  2 
  from 
  middle 
  of 
  cell, 
  3 
  absent, 
  5 
  and 
  6 
  very 
  short, 
  7 
  to 
  apex. 
  

  

  Meyrick 
  then 
  says 
  (loc. 
  cit., 
  p. 
  485) 
  that 
  this 
  is 
  " 
  a 
  genus 
  of 
  limited 
  

   extent, 
  but 
  cosmopolitan 
  ; 
  more 
  species 
  are 
  known 
  from 
  Australia 
  

   than 
  any 
  other 
  region." 
  His 
  later 
  diagnosis 
  (Handbook, 
  etc., 
  pp. 
  

   430-431), 
  specially 
  written 
  for 
  pallidum, 
  still 
  maintains 
  that 
  "the 
  3rd 
  

   segment 
  of 
  the 
  hindwing 
  has 
  a 
  slight 
  black 
  scale-tooth 
  in 
  the 
  dorsal 
  

   cilia." 
  Hofmann, 
  as 
  usual 
  well 
  ahead 
  of 
  all 
  his 
  contemporaries, 
  first 
  

   brought 
  the 
  Oxyptilids 
  (Oxyptilus) 
  and 
  Buckleriids 
  (Trichoptilus) 
  into 
  

   close 
  connection 
  (see 
  anteci, 
  p. 
  91), 
  and 
  his 
  is 
  the 
  latest 
  independent 
  

   work, 
  Staudinger 
  and 
  Kebel's 
  Catalog, 
  3rd 
  ed., 
  pp. 
  70 
  et 
  seq., 
  being 
  a 
  

   mere 
  copy 
  of 
  Meyrick's 
  system, 
  and 
  including 
  all 
  his 
  errors. 
  An 
  

   examination 
  of 
  the 
  $ 
  genital 
  appendages 
  indicates 
  that 
  Hofmann's 
  

   grouping 
  is 
  correct, 
  and 
  Chapman 
  notes 
  thereof 
  : 
  " 
  The 
  structure 
  of 
  

   the 
  $ 
  appendages 
  shows 
  that 
  the 
  Buckleriids 
  (pallidum 
  and 
  siceliota) 
  

   belong 
  to 
  the 
  Ox)ptilid 
  group. 
  The 
  middle 
  (true 
  clasp 
  ?) 
  appendage 
  

   consists 
  of 
  two 
  portions, 
  a 
  basal 
  one 
  of 
  tolerably 
  solid 
  chitin, 
  clothed 
  

   with 
  scales 
  and 
  some 
  bristles, 
  and 
  a 
  terminal 
  one, 
  that 
  is 
  much 
  more 
  

   delicate 
  (and 
  easily 
  deformed 
  in 
  preparation 
  and 
  mounting). 
  It 
  has 
  

   an 
  inflated 
  appearance, 
  and 
  is 
  covered 
  with 
  fine 
  bristles, 
  regularly 
  

   disposed, 
  at 
  some 
  little 
  distance 
  apart. 
  In 
  Buckleria 
  (pallidum) 
  

   this 
  curious 
  appendix 
  arises 
  near 
  the 
  middle, 
  not 
  the 
  end, 
  of 
  the 
  

   shaft 
  which 
  is 
  very 
  long 
  and 
  slender. 
  In 
  Stangeia 
  (siceliota) 
  it 
  

   is 
  hardly 
  developed, 
  and 
  the 
  structure 
  is 
  less 
  close 
  to 
  Oxyptilus, 
  

   than 
  is 
  that 
  of 
  Buckleria.'" 
  Some 
  ten 
  years 
  after 
  the 
  position 
  of 
  

   the 
  Buckleriids 
  with 
  the 
  Oxyptilids 
  had 
  been 
  satisfactorily 
  worked 
  

   out 
  by 
  Hofmann 
  and 
  Meyrick, 
  Barrett 
  wrote 
  (Lep. 
  Brit. 
  Isles, 
  

  

  