1895.] On a New Classification of the Lepidoptera. 647 
gide. On looking over the venation of the Tineide repre- 
sented on Spuler’s Plate XXVI, it is evident that the very 
narrow-winged genera, such as Coleophora, Ornix, Lithocol- 
letis, Nepticula, Gelechia, Cemiostoma and (Ecophora, are 
highly modified recent forms, when compared with Tinea and 
Blabophanes as well as the Adelidæ (Adela, Nemotois, Cho- 
reutidee, Simaethis and Choreutis) and justify Chapman in 
associating them with the Pyraloids in his group of Pupæ 
obtectx. 
Family Prodoxidx.—This group is represented by Tegeticula 
(Pronuba) and Prodoxus. The eye-collar (maxillary palpi, 
Fig. 6, mx p) is larger than in any of the other Tineina, and 
the group is thus intermediate between the 
Neo- and Paleolepidoptera. The pupa, as 
well as other stages, have been well-des- 
cribed by Riley, who, however, has over- 
looked the eye-collar, though he figures 
and describes the remarkable “ maxillary 
tentacles.” I am disposed to regard the 
latter organ as the maxilla itself, and to 
consider that the “ maxilla ” of Riley is the 
Fic, 6. lacinia or inner lobe of the maxilla, but 
have had no material for examination. Should this prove to 
be the case, it would carry the family down among the Lepi- 
doptera laciniata. 
(To be continued.) 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
Some Recent Text-books and Student Guides.—For several 
years the crying need of American teachers has been a text-book of 
zoology which, in contents and manner of treatment, should be of use 
in American colleges and technical schools: All that our publishers 
had offered us were books which were far behind the times, and some 
were far behind any times unless we go back to that long ago when 
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