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THE HABITS AND STRUCTURE OF MOTHS. 
7. Tineina, comprising the Clothes-Moths, Long Horns, 
Depressarice or Flat-bodies, Goleophorce and Nepticulce, &c. 
8 . Pterophorina, consisting of the Plume Moths. 
9. Alucitina, consisting of only one British species, the 
Twenty-Plume Moth. 
The second classification, that proposed by Henry Double¬ 
day in the second edition of his “ Synonymic List of all 
the British Butterflies and Moths ” ( 1862 ), is that employed 
in Morris’ British Moths and other works. His principal 
groups are:— 
1. Nocturni, corresponding to the bulk of the Sphingina 
and Bombycina of Stainton. 
2. Geometrce = Geometrina of Stainton. 
3. 4. Drepanulce and Pseudo-bombyces, including the re¬ 
mainder of the Bombycina of Stainton. 
5. Abc^ce = Noctuina of Stainton. 
6 . Deltoides, included by Stainton with the Pyralidina. 
7. Avcntice , including only one species, placed by Stainton 
in the Geometrina. 
8 . 9. Pyralides and Crambites, including the remainder of 
the Pyralidina of Stainton. 
10. Tortrices, including the Tortricina of Stainton. 
11. Tinece, including the Tineina of Stainton, and the 
genus Psyche, placed by Stainton in the Bombycina. 
12. Pterophori, including the Pterophorina and Alucitina 
of Stainton. 
The third list is published by Richard South (1884). This 
is similar in the main to Stainton’s arrangement, and the 
principal groups are as follows:— 
1. Sphinges. 
2. Bombyces (including Nycteolidae and Holidae). 
8 . Noctuce (including Aventiidae, Boletobidae, Herminiidae. 
and Hyperiidas). 
4. Geometrce. 
5. Pyralides. 
6 . Pterophori (including Chrysocorididae and Alucitidae). 
7 . Crambi. 
8 . Tortrices; and 
9. Tinece (including Psychidae). 
In the autumn of 1895, Mr. Meyrick, who is chiefly known 
as an authority on Australian Lepidoptera, published a 
“Handbook of British Lepidoptera,” in which he proposed 
a wholly revolutionary classification, which we have not space 
to discuss, further than to remark that he places the butter- 
