The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (Volume 37) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TEANSACTIONS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY LONDON Fok The Year 1889. I. Monograph of the genera connecting Tinaegeria, Wlk., with Eretmocera, Z. By The Eight Hon. Lord Walsinoham, M.A., F.E.S., F.L.S., andc. [Bead December 5th, 1888.] Plates I., II., III., IV., V., 4 VI. The object of the present paper is to collect and arrange material for a study of certain genera of Micro-Lepi- doptera, about the classification of which various opinions have already been expressed by different authors who have alluded to the subject. The genera here presented for study are as follows: Tincegeria, Wlk. Snellenia, Wlsm. Pseudeegeria, "Wlsm. (Edematopoda, Z. Eretmocera, Z. A careful and critical examination of their structure and affinities seems to disclose gradual modification, and to suggest that they are connected with each other TBANH. KMT. 800. LOND. 1889.PABT I. (HABOH.) B by characters not jointly possessed by any other genera of those families or subfamilies in which they have hitherto been classed. The species examined are those in the British Museum and in the Zeller collections, and especially a fine series of specimens in my own cabinet, for which I am indebted to Mr. G. T. Carter, Mr. F. J. Jackson, Mr. J. H. Leech, and Mr. H. Druce. The question of classification has been touched upon under the various descriptions of species by Zeller, by Staudinger, by Walker, by Stainton, and by Meyrick; also at more length by Butler in a paper entitled " On the natural affinities of the lepidopterous family Mgeriidte" (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1878, pp. 1215, Plate V.). Zeller regarded Eretmocera (including (Edematopoda) as forming a connecting-link between that section of the unrestricted genus (Ecophora, which included espereUum, Hb., seleni...