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639. 



LAMPRONIA LUZELLA. 



The four-spotted purple Tinea. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Tineidte. 



Type of the Genus, Tinea rupella Fab. 



Lampronia Ste., Curt. — Euspilapteryx Ste. — Denisia, Galanthia, 

 Antispila, Micropterix Hub. — Tinea Linn., Fab., Haiv., Hub. 

 Antenna; remote, inserted on each side the forehead near to the 

 eyes, shorter than the body, fiHform, the basal joint large and 

 ovate with a brush of hairs on the inside, the other joints tas- 

 selled with scales, and producing series of longish hairs in the 

 males : (1 portions of the base and middle) : more setaceous and 

 only clothed with scales and very short bristles in the females. 

 Maxillce spiral and formed of 2 broad flat filaments (3), shorter 

 than the Palpi which are long, attenuated, incurved and scaly, 

 composed of 6? joints, 3 basal joints stout, 1st short, 2nd and 

 3rd much longer, the remainder slender thin and compressed at 

 the apex (3 a). 



Labial Palpi longer than the maxillary, curved, clothed with 

 scales (4) and triarticulate, basal joint elongated, not stouter 

 than the 2nd, which is nearly twice as long, 3rd about the 

 length of the 1st, elliptic-conical (4 a). 

 Head tufted, being thickly covered with hairy scales : eyes small and 

 globose. Thorax smooth. Abdomen attenuated, tufted at the apex 

 in the male, with an oviduct sometimes exserted in the female, clothed 

 with hairs at the apex (AO). Wings ample, deflexed in repose; 

 superior somewhat linear, the apex ovate ; inferior more ovate-tri- 

 gonate ; cilia rather long. Legs, anterior very short, posterior 

 very long: thighs very short : tibiae, anterior exceedingly short, in- 

 termediate with a long pair of unequal spurs ; hinder pair very long, 

 compressed and densely hairy, with a long pair of unequal spurs at 

 the apex, and a longer pair above the middle (8 f) : tarsi long, espe- 

 cially the hinder. 



LVZEJ.-LA Hub. Tin.pl.64.f. 430. —Curt. Guide, Gen. 1037.6. 



Brown-black ; superior wings with a purple gloss, 2 ochreous 

 spots on the costa, that nearest the base minute, and 2 rather 

 further apart on the interior margin, that nearest the posterior 

 angle the largest and triangular ; apex of the cilia whitish : in- 

 ferior wings with an orange tinge. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



The deflexed wings and rough woolly head distinguish this 

 genus from a great portion of the Tineidae ; the under wings 

 are broader than usual, and the antennse of the males are 

 hairy and have a knotted appearance under a lens. 



