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743. 

 DIURNEA NOVEMBRIS. 



The November Dagger Moth. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tineidse. 



Type of the Genus, Tinea Fagella, Fab. 



DiuRNEA Haw., Goda., Curt. — Lemmatophila Treit. — Tinea and 

 Crambus Fab. 



Antenna inserted on the crown of the head close to the eyes, 

 thrown back in repose under the wings, nearly as long as the 

 body in the male, slender and setaceous, composed of oblong 

 scaly joints, with spreading hairs beneath (1 (J), rather shorter 

 and simply scaly in the females (1 ? ). 

 MaxillcB small, slender and not half the length of palpi (3). 

 Labial palpi rather large, remote, thickly clothed Avith long 

 scales, i)orrected obliquely (4), triarticulate, basal joint short, 

 ovate, abruptly curved at the base, 2nd very long, not stout, a 

 little waved and slightly attenuated, 3rd a little longer than the 

 1st, very slender, tapering and acute (4 a) ; rather longer and 

 stouter in the female. 

 Head small transverse : eyes small globose and prominent. Thorax 

 not large nor crested. Abdomen rather short, linear and tufted in 

 the male ; stouter in the female ; the apex conical, with a short ovi- 

 positor. Wings Ir/ing partially over each other horizontally in re- 

 pose, and very long in the male (9) ; superior spatulate, the apex 

 rounded: inierior ample, the apex rounded : cilia perfect but short : 

 wings small and convex in the female, meeting upon the back ivhen 

 at rest ; superior not longer than the body, narrow and lanceolate, 

 the apex acute : cilia imperfect ? inferior small lanceolate and very 

 acute : cilia perfect. Legs longish in the male : tibiae, anterior with 

 a short spine andfascicle of scales on the inside, the others spurred 

 at the apex, the hinder long stout and ciliated on both sides, with a 

 pair of spurs at the middle : tarsi longish, slender and 5-jointed, 

 basal joint long : claws minute (Sf, hind leg). Female with the 

 legs stouter and the hinder tibia not hairy. 

 CaterpiWars fat, furnished with 2 rows of verrucose dots, each termi- 

 nated by a little hair ; armed with a corneous shield on the back, 

 with the 3rd pair of pectoral feet inform of a battledore, living and 

 metamorphosing between the leaves. Pupse slender and elongated, 

 inclosed in a double web. Goda. — Hub.,Tin. l.,Bomb.B,a,fig. 2,a,b. 



NovEMBRis Haw. — Curt. Guide, Gen. 995, 2. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



Mr. Haworth's genus Diurnea, at the time it was published, 

 embraced the insects which now form the Semioscopis and 

 Oporinia Hiib.^ the Lemmatophila Treit..) and my genera 

 Dasystoma and Cheimaphasia established in the Ent. Mag. 

 M. Godart has not adopted the former genus, and without 

 assigning a reason has altered the last into Cheimonophila: 

 as he is at a loss for the signification of the name Diurnea, it 

 may be as well to state that it alluded to the moths Hying in 



