THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 509 



Family BREPHIDJE. 



This peculiar little group of species contains only a single representa- 

 tive in our State, flying so early that it is not often taken by collectors. 

 It has a resemblance to some of the frail forms of the owlet moths and 

 yet more to some of the "Geometrid" series. The black-banded, reddish 

 secondaries are quite characteristic as a superficial character, the venation 

 serving to distinguish the family structurally. 



BREPHOS Ochs. 



B. infans Moesch. Staten Island, III, IV (Ds). 



Family EPIPLEMID^E. 



CALLEDAPTERYX Grt. 



C. dryopterata Grt. Orange Mts. VI (Wdt) ; Newark VIII, 18 (Bwl) ; larva 



on "Viburnum nudum." 



Super-Family TINEOIDEA. 



Under this name is grouped a series of families which are not closely 

 related in appearance and structure, and have no one superficial character 

 that makes them all readily recognizable. Included in it are all the 

 families that in the last edition are placed in the "series Tineides," and 

 all that in more popular parlance are known as micro-lepidoptera. The 

 essential characters are largely in the larval structures and in some 

 peculiarities of venation, and, generally speaking, all caterpillars in which 

 the false or pro-legs have a complete circle of spinules or crotches belong 

 to this series. So in the adults, when the number of internal veins in the 

 primaries exceeds one and in the secondaries exceeds two, the species be- 

 longs here. Other details will be given under the appropriate family 

 headings. 



Family LACOSOMIM. 



This family resembles the following "Psychidse" in general structure, 

 but has the wings closely scaled and fully developed in both sexes. The 

 larvae live similarly in bags or sacs, but these are always open at both 

 ends. 



LACOSOMA Grt. 



L. chiridota Grt. Staten Island (Fulda), on oak near New York (Bt) ; 

 Lakehurst, larva only on oak (div). It probably occurs throughout 

 the State, but is decidedly rare. 



CICINNUS Blanch. 



C. melsheimeri Harr. Occurs throughout the State, May to July, always 

 rare and usually beaten from oak trees. The larva feeds on oak and 

 winterberry (Bt). 



