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b. TiSCHERIA. 



c. Adelid.e. Ovipositor (of imago) formed for 



piercing plant-tissues. 



d. Nepticulid.*:. Antennae separate from head in 



dehiscence. 



p. Larva exposed feeder. Slug-like in form and move- 

 ments, head very retractile. Free segments 

 3» 4, 5j 6, 7, or 3, 4, 5, 6. 



1. MiCROPTERYGiD/E.* Eight pairs of abdominal legs, 



curious appendages, moss-feeders. 



2. CocHLiopoDiD^. Legs evanescent, but traces of 



extra pairs and of curious appendages. Max. 

 palpi large in pupa, not in imago. 



3. Zyg/enid^.. Legs of Macro-type. Max. palpi 



evanescent in pupa. 



" C. ? Pupa with no free segments, appendages 



adherent to all abdominal segments. {Lyonetia, Ccniiostonia, 

 Bedellia.) 



"Note. — Eriocephala (^Mic7'0pteryx purpiirclla, &c.) appears 

 by imaginal characters to belong to Adelidai. But the pupa 

 is truly Incomplete^ not semi-incomplete, as all the other 

 I)icompleiie are, — that is, the appendages are all absolutely 

 distinct and free, and all the abdominal segments are free ; 

 moreover, it possesses working jaws." 



* " I have only seen a portion of a pupa of these, and of Psychids 

 I hive h.id none of my own, and have not been able to examine them 

 frjcly."— T. A. C. 



