254 J«)DElt!I SYSTIM. 



SriRPS 4. — Caterpiilars -with fourteen feet, anal ones wanting j the first 

 pair of membranacecus ones distinct. 



Genus 363. PLATYPTERYX. Luspeyercs, Lutr., Leach. Pha- 



L^N.\. Fabr. 

 Anterior wings falcate : untenutE of the male pectinate : palpi very short, 



somewhat conic : tongue short. 

 Sp. 1. P/«.7«/c«^«?- " (pebhle hooktip). !?. P/«. /«cerfa??«m (the scol- 

 loped hooktip), SiC. 



Obs, — Tiie last species has the anterior wings dentate. 



Genus 364. CILIX. Leach. Bombyx. Fahr. Pi.atypteryx. Latr. 

 Anterior wings rorindeil : antenncz of the male pectinated : palpi very- 

 short, somewhat conic : tongue none. 

 Sp. 1. Cil. conipressa (goose-egg moth). 

 Bombyx compressus. Fubr. 



Stirps 5. — Caterpillars with sixteen feet: rwn^swith the body forming 

 a broad short triangle, dilated on each side anteriorly. 



Genus 365. TORTRIX. Hiibner, Leach. FiiAXyENA (Tortrix), 

 Linnc. Py kalis. Latr., Fabr. 

 Falpi with the second joint distinctly longer than the third, and more 

 squamous; third joint short, truncate or obtuse, not recurved over 

 the liead. 

 Sp. 1. Tor. Fagana. . 



Genus 366. SIMAETIIIS. Leach. Tortrix. Habncr. Pvkalis. 



Latr. 

 Falpi ^hoTt, rising; the last joint not recurved over the head; v/ith 

 the second and third joints nearly equally long and equally squa- 

 mose : inferior wings not completely covered by the upper ones. 

 Sp. 1. Sim. dentana. 

 Tortrix dentana. Hubner. 



Genus 367. NOLA. Leach. Pyralis. Hub., Latr. 

 Palpi short, porrect, last joint not recurved over the head; the second 



and third joints nearly equally long and equally squaniose: umhr 



wings completely covered by the upper ones. 

 Sp. 1 . Nola palliolatis. 

 Pyralis palliolatis. Hubiur, Lair. 



Fam. X. Pi-RALiD.x. La:cfr, 

 Crambites. LatreUle. 

 Falpi four; larva (as far as has been ascertained) with sixteen feet 



Stirps ■\.— Superior wings forming with die body a nearly horizontal^ 

 depressed triangle. 



