LEPIDOPTERA. — YPONOMEUTIDZ. 4.05 




having the labial palpi long and slender; and from the Tineide, in 
having the maxillary palpi rarely, and then but slightly, developed * 
( fig. 112. 1. Yponomeuta padella). The body is ordinarily slender 
and elongated, but rather depressed, in a few groups most nearly 
allied to the Tortricide ; the head (fig. 112. 2. head of Yponomeuta; 
s. head of Gicophora; 9. head of Metallosetia spissicornis) is small, 
and occasionally clothed with long scales in front ; the antenne long, 
slender, and generally simple in both sexes; the thorax is rarely 
crested ; the wings are entire (fig. 113. 9. fore wing of Depressaria), 
and often long, narrow, and more or less convoluted, the pos- 
terior having very long ciliz ; the legs are of moderate length, and 
spurred as in the majority of moths; the anterior tibia having one 
(fig. 112.3.), the intermediate two (fig.112.4.), and the posterior 
four spurs (fig.112.5.); the palpi are generally long and slender, 
and mostly recurved, but drooping in a few species, with the termi- 
nal joint distinct from the preceding, and not so thickly clothed with 

Duponchel. On Tinea decuriella, in Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, No. 3. — Ditto, in 
ditto, 1838. General revision of the Tineide. 
Desjardins. On Plutella Xylostella, in ditto, vol. vi. 
Fauna del Regno Napoli (Monograph on Ccophora). 
Curtis. On Cecidoses, in Trans. Zool. Soe. vol. i. pl. 40. 
Bohemann, in Swed. Transact., 1887 (Tinea Linneella). 
Fischer von Rislerstam. Abbild. zur Bericht. der Mikrolepidopterologie. 
And the general works above referred to. 

* «Les Yponomeutes, une ou deux exceptés, les Ecophores et les Adéles, sont 
presque les seules Tinéites, dont les palpes supérieures ou maxillaires ne soient pas 
bien apparents.” (Latreille, Régne An. tom. v. p. 417.) 
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