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and black. The forehead is a velvety crimson running into 
black on the crown. Crimson appears also on the bend of the 
wings, on the under side of the wings intermingled with 
yellow, on the thighs and on some of the tail feathers; these 
tail feathers, exquisitely tinted with yellow at their extremi- 
ties, are rounded and overlapped in a curiously beautiful 
fashion. All else the color is a predominating green, 
frequently flushed with red or grained with yellow. Bill and 
feet black, eyes yellow. The sexes are not easily dis- 
tinguished. 
ON A NEW CLASSIFICATION OF THE LEPIDOPTERA. 
By A. S. PACKARD. 
The taxonomic importance of Walter’s most interesting dis- 
covery that Hriocephala calthella has maxille constructed on 
the type of those of biting or mandibulate insects, i. e., with an 
inner and outer lobe (lacinia) beside the palpi, was apparently 
overlooked by him as well as others, though its bearings on the 
phylogeny of the Lepidoptera as, however, insisted on by Wal- 
ter, are, it seems to us, of the highest interest. The presence 
of the maxillary lobes, homologous with the galea and lacinia 
of the Mecoptera (Panorpidee) and Neuroptera (Corydalus, 
Myrmeleon, as well as the lower orders Dermaptera, Orthoptera, 
Coleoptera, etc.), in what in other important respects also is 
the “lowest” or most primitive genus of Lepidoptera, the 
lacinia being a rudimentary, scarcely functional glossa or 
tongue, and not merely a vestigial structure, is of great signi- 
ficance from a phylogenetic point of view, besides affording a 
basis for a division of the Lepidoptera into two grand divisions 
or sub-orders, for which we would propose the names Lepi- 
doptera laciniata and Lepidoptera glossata. 
Sub-order I. LEPIDOPTERA LACINIATA. 
Walter thus writes of the first pair of maxille: “The other 
mouth-parts also ofthe lower Micropterygine have a most 
