358 Mr. J. W. Tutt on recent papers on 
ADDENDUM. 
As an addendum to Mr. Dyar^s system of classification, 
it may be well to notice a short summary published by 
him in ^^Entomological News," * Feb., 1895, pp. 38-40. 
In this he writes : — " I would divide Prof. Comstock's 
Feenat^ into six superfamilies on the arrangement of the 
tubercles of the larvae. In response to a tendency for 
these tubercles to be arranged in a single transverse row, 
tubercles iv. and v. have become consolidated into one in 
the first three superfamilies, and later, tubercles i. and ii. 
have been likewise united, or else tubercle ii. disappears. 
In the three highest families the tubercles have tended to 
form two alternating rows. According to these charac- 
ters the superfamilies separate as follows : — 
Tubercles iv. and v. approximate or consolidated. 
" Tubercles i. and ii. remote . Microlepidoptera. 
Tubercles i. and ii. colisolidated . Antheocerina. 
Tubercles i. and ii. remote, ii. dis- 
appearing at the first moult . . Bombycina. 
" Tubercles iv. and v. remote. 
" Tubercle iv. behind the spiracle, 
V. below it NocTUiNA. 
" Tubercle iv. below, v. in front of 
spiracle vSphingina. 
Tubercles iv. and v. in line, except 
in some Nymphalidse, where 
secondary armour is developed . Rhopaloceea. 
" The Microlepidoptera include the Psychidas, Gossidx, 
Pyralidsej Tortricidse, Sesiidse, Tineidse, and Lacosomidse. 
The Antheocerina include the Pterophoridse, Anthro- 
ceridse, Pyromorjjhidse, Megalopygidas, and Eudeidse. 
The Bombycina — the Citheroniidse, Semileucidse,-f Saturn- 
iidd3,f and Bomhycidse. The Noctuina — the Nofodontidse, 
Thyatiridse, Geometridm, Drepanidds, Agaristidse, Noctu- 
idse, Gymbidse, LUhosiidse, Pericopidse, Arctiidse, Euchro- 
miidse, Lymantrid^, and perhaps also the Thyridiidse, 
" Relationship of Pyralidce and Pterophorina from the Larvae,"' 
Ent. News, Feb., 1895. 
t "Not in the sense used by Professor Smith. My classifica- 
tion corresponds more nearly with that of Grote's Check List, 
1882." 
