( 137 ) IX. A revision of the genera Acrolophus, Poet/, and Anaphora, Clem. By The Eight Honble. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Read April 6th, 1887.] Plates VII. & VIII. About a year ago I received from Mons. Ernile Ragonot, President of the French Entomological Societ}', a box containing thirteen specimens which had the general appearance of the genus Anaphora, Clem. Perhaps, owing to their unlucky number, they had suffered woeful treatment on the journey. On carefully examining the remnants I found myself quite unable to recognise any named species, and at once determined to devote my first week of leisure to a study of the group to which they belonged. The literature of the subject is not voluminous. Taking the genera Acrolophus and Ana-jjltora* together, the number of species described amounts to fourteen only, some of which are already admitted to be synonymous. The peculiar form represented by these genera, having for its chief characteristic hirsute and greatly recurved or elevated palpi, appears to be confined to the two continents of America and to the West Indies, but extending to the Sandwich Islands, the Hawaiian genus Stoeberliinus, Butl., obviously be-longing to the same group. There are probably an infinite number of species scattered throughout the Nearctic and Neotropical Regions. In general appearance these insects have a strong-superficial resemblance to certain Asiatic forms chiefly included at present in the Indian genus Alavona, Wlk., but represented also in Africa. The different shape of :;: I find on examination that the types of Tirasia granulatella, Walker, from Villa Nova, and Eddara zylinella, Walker, from Jamaica, are both females of some species of the Anaphorince, but it is not possible to adopt these generic names without knowing-the .structure of their respective males. TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. lbfc>7. — PART II. (JUNE.)
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