INSECTA BRITANNICA. 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



Al(P ijnatitor, ■'trjf/ai/u's iinbricafa;. 

 Os JiaHstellnni, viaxiUis colicercnllbm couiposiluui. 

 Larva pcdlhm ad sammnrd IG instrv.cla. 

 MetamorpUom perfcda . 



SpiODjjiiia. 



Lepuhplera, Liiman, 1753, Do Ciccr, aliorumque auctornm. 

 Glossata, Fabricii, 1775. 



TFinrj-tfoHr, clothed with scales'^, which are inserted ou botli sides of 

 the nieinhraiic ; month a tubular ton(jae\ co)iipo>ied of the nniled maxittcv 

 protected on each side by the ])al|)i J. The tarca famished at the most 

 with sixteen leys, rarely with less thou ten. Metamorphosis comptete, 

 i. e. the larva changes to a (juieseeut masked pupa, which diJl'ers both 

 from the larva and from tlie imago. 



iVono of tile iusccts of tliis order are lial)l(! (o be mislakeii for 

 any otlier, but several of the Trichoplcrd apjiroxiniaie so closely 

 to the Lepidojjtera, that it is witli tlu; greatest (litllculty tliey can 



* Some species of llie P.ii/r/iidee have all (Ik; \viui;s rlotlicil with huirs, ami in 

 some species of Incarcaria, Lawpriniia, Microplrri/.r, and JS^cjil'ii'tihi Ihe j)oslerior 

 wings are furnished with hairs instead of scales. The females ui ILii'rojijmg, P^si/ctn', 

 and Talaporia, etc., are entirely destitnte of wings. '^ 



t In some of the rxyclddcv, and in Aglosm, the longnc is ahscnt. 



\ 'The palpi arc sometimes wanting, c.y. Bucadatrix and some of the r.v/chid<c. 

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