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391. 



DAMOPHILA TRIFOLII. 



The Trefoil thick -horned Tinea. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tineidae. 



Type of the Genus, Tinea spissicornis Haw. 

 Damophila Curt. — Porrectaria Haw, 



AntenncE inserted above the eyes on each side the head, slender, 

 somewhat setaceous, composed of numerous joints clothed with 

 broad scales nearly to the middle, the basal joint appearing veiy 

 much dilated, the following gradually tapering (1). 

 Maxillce a little longer than the palpi, spiral, attenuated, clothed 

 with scales at the base (3). 



Labial Palpi longer than the head, slightly curved upwards, 

 slender, clothed with close metallic scales, triarticulate, basal 

 joint long, subclavate, 2nd very long and linear, 3rd shorter and 

 pointed (4 and 4 a). 

 Head S7nall subglobose clothed with broad depressed scales. Eyes lateral 

 rather prominent, slightly and obliquely ovate (7 and 7*). Thorax 

 ovate. Wings very long and lanceolate folded cylindrically when at 

 rest, inferior very narrow : cilia exceedingly long, surrounding the 

 iriferior wings. Abdomen slender, tufted at the apex in the males. 

 Legs long and slender: coxsg, anterior long: thighs of equal length: 

 tibiae j anterior as long as the thigh, with a minute internal notch 

 near the apex, intermediate spurred at the apex as well as the pos- 

 terior, which are longer, stouter, and furnished with a pair of spurs 

 below the middle : tarsi 5-jointed, anterior rather the longest, basal 

 joint very long, 4th and 5th the shortest: claws minute (8 a fore 

 leg). 



Tripoli I Curtis' s Guide, Gen. 1017. 1. 



In the Cabinets of Mr. Dale and the Author. 



The singular horns of these insects like those o^ Lepidocera 

 (plate 34^4) are clothed with scales at the base, but much finer; 

 this alone will distinguish them from any others that are allied 

 to them, and of those genera already illustrated in this Work, 



