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been erroneously attributed. The species are very variable, which might 
be an indication of the ancient character of the genus. Allohermenias is 
related with He.rmenias and may have developed from that stock rather 
recently, while Crocostola stands quite isolated. 
The extremely extensive cosmopolitan genus Argyroploce has developed 
numerous endemic species in New Guinea, five of which could be recorded 
from the Central Region; of the two exogenic species, A. harmonica from 
the Sigi Valley is known also from Ceylon and Java, and A. lamyra from 
the Idenburg River Camp occurs also in Ceylon. The third exogenic species of 
this family, Enarmonia pulverula, from the Sigi Camp, was also recorded 
from Ceylon, Assam, Borneo, Java, and China. 
It was a surprise to find that two new species from the Central Region 
and a third one, previously described from Rook Island as an Argyroploce, 
in fact belong to the North American genus Pseudogalleria, up till now 
supposed to he monotypic. This find loses much of its importance, however, 
through the fact that a series of tropical species, before short known under 
the name of “Argyroploce iUepida” or “Cryptophlebia carpojihaga” , that 
often are serious crop pests, must be attributed to Pseudogalleria as well. 
The Schoenotenidae, an interesting endogenic Papuan family, was 
sufficiently discussed in a previous publication (Diakonoff, Zool. Meded. 
Mus. Leiden, vol. 21, pp. 165 — 177, 1952), in the systematic part, and 
in the preceding chapter. Its composition and distribution form one of the 
strongest arguments for the peculiar and independent character of the 
New Guinean fauna. 
The Chlidanotidae, a small family of great taxonomic interest, is 
represented in the collection by a single aberrant monotypical genus. 
The family seems to originate from India; one species has a wide distri- 
bution, extending from India, the Andamans, Java, and New Guinea to 
Australia and the Fiji Islands. 
The Carposinidae are rather numerous in New Guinea and are often 
represented by species of unusually large size which may indicate that the 
conditions for their development in that island are optimal. The endemic 
element is considerable, only three genera out of ten collected being 
apodemic (and almost circumtropical). Of these, Meridarchis has developed 
not less than 22 endemic species throughout the Papuan region, Hetero- 
gymna eight, and Carposina only one. No apodemic species are known. 
The Copromorphidae are a small, ancient family of world-wide 
distribution and obscure origin. Fourteen genera are known altogether, 
of which C opr omorpha occurs in India, the Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, 
and Australia, but the genus has few representatives in all these countries; 
other genera are distributed as follows: Bismarck Islands 2, Australia 2, 
New Zealand 2, Madagascar 1, Central and South America 4. In the 
Central Region one species of Copromorpha was collected. 
The Gelechiidae, the largest family of the Microlepidoptera, abundant 
in the Oriental region as well as in Australia, appear to be less numerous 
