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Family I.— TORTRICID/E mi/iL 



Antenna short, inserted near the eyes on the crown, mostly simple, with 

 the inside faintly ciliated in some males, or slightly pectinated in both sexes. 

 Pafpi two, very rarely four, and then only rudimentary, short, compressed, the 

 intermediate joint usually dilated above, the terminal short, slender, obtuse, 

 the base generally thickly clothed with scales or pilose, the apical joint 

 mostly exposed: maxillee short: head small : ocelli two, sometimes wanting: 

 eyes small, globose : thorax rarely crested : wings undivided, entire, anterior 

 broad, forming a triangle, dilated on each side anteriorly during repose, and 

 very slightly deflexed ; posterior ovate-triangular, folded on their inner 

 edge during repose : bodt/ slender, short, with a small anal tuft in the males, 

 rather stouter in the females and somewhat obtuse : legs short. Larva 

 naked, with sixteen legs ; usually residing within a leaf, convoluted by 

 itself: pupa formed in a delicate folliculus withui the twisted leaf. 



This beautiful and extensive family consists of a series of small 

 moths as remarkable from the great variation to which almost all the 

 species are subject, as from their peculiar aspect during repose, at 

 which time they sit with slightly deflexed wings, the outline of which 

 is not very dissimilar to that of a bell, being a short, broad triangle, 

 with the longer sides dilated anteriorly, or towards the shoulders of 

 the insect ; in habit there is consequently considerable resemblance 

 at first sight, but when more closely examined considerable diversity 

 becomes apparent, and the family may then be subdivided into 

 numerous genera, distinguished not only by the contour of the wings 

 and their markings, but by the variations in the structure of the palpi, 

 antennae, &:c. Nearly all the species, at least as far as known, 

 reside in their larva state within a leaf twisted, or convoluted, by the 

 larva itself, though some few reside within the pulpy substance of 

 fruits, or even the medulla of plants ; the caterpillar is usually naked, 

 slender, with sixteen legs, and is very active, running with great ra- 

 pidity either backwards or forwards. 



Genus CCLXXIV. — Hvlophila, Hilbner. 



Palpi short, remote, rather slender, somewhat divergent, pilose beneath, the 

 terminal joint visible; basal joint very short, reniform, second rather atte- 

 nuated to the apex, apical nearly as long, and more slender, slightly acute. 

 Antenna simple in both sexes, slender at the base, a little thickened towards 

 the apex, and with the joints slightly produced and pilose within, the apex 

 slender and simple : head small, with a dense fascicle of hairs between the 



Haustellata. Vol. IV. Apkil 30th, 1834. e 



