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I also refer to it the T. harisella, whose caterpillar, according 

 to the observations of Hubert, Jan. forms a sort of hammock *. 

 Sometimes the inferior palpi are very small, and hairy. The 

 antenncE are almost always very long, and the eyes are closely ap- 

 proximated. 



Adela, Lat. — Alucita, Fab. 

 These Insects are found in the woods, and several species appear 

 with the first budding of the Oak. Their wings are usually bril- 

 liant. 



A. Degeerella; Alucita Degeerella,Fa.h.', De Geer, Insect., 

 I,xxxii, 13. The antenna thrice the length of the body, and 

 whitish, the inferior portion black; superior wings golden- 

 yellow, on a black ground, forming longitudinal streaks, with a 

 broad, golden-yellow, transverse band, margined with violet. 



A. Reaumurella; Alucita Reaumurella, F&h. Black; supe- 

 rior wings golden, and immaculate f . 

 The tenth and last section of the Nocturnal Lcpidoptera, that of 

 the FissiPENN^ {Pterophoiites, Lat.), is closely related to the pre- 

 ceding one, so far as relates to the narrow and elongated form of the 

 body and upper wings, but is removed from it, as well as from all 

 others of this order by the four wings, or at least two, being split 

 longitudinally, in the manner of branches or fingers with fringed 

 edges, and resembling feathers. The wings resemble those of 

 Birds. 



Linnaeus comprised these Lepldoptera in his division of the Pha- 

 lance alucita'; De Geer calls them f halccnce-iipulce. 



AVith us, as with Geoffrey and Fabricius, they constitute the sub- 

 genus 



Pterophorus. 

 The caterpillars have sixteen feet, and live on leaves or flowers, 

 without constructing a tube. 



Sometimes the inferior palpi are recurved from their origin, are 

 entirely covered with little scale.s, and not longer than the head. 

 They form the genus Pterophorus proper of Latreille. Their chry- 

 salides are exposed, covered with hairs, or little tubercles, sometimes 

 suspended by a thread, and sometimes fixed to a bed of silk on leaves, 

 &c., by means of the terminal hooks of the abdomen. 



P. pentadachjlus. Fab. ; Roes. Insect., I, Class IV, Pap. Noct., 



V. Snow-white wings; the superior divided into two slips, and 



the inferior into three %. 



Sometimes the inferior palpi project, are longer than the head, and 



have the second joint densely covered with scales, and the last 



* The Tinea majorella,, Geoffroyellu, t-xifimitreUa, &c. of Hiihner. For this and 

 the preceding subgenus, see the Monograph of the genus, Phycis, iu the Magas. der 

 Entom., Ill, of Germar. 



t See Fab., Entom. Syst., Supp. ; Lat., Gener. Crust, et Insect., IV, 223; and 

 Hiibner, Tina?, XIX. 



X The other Pterophori of Fabricius, the hexadactylus excepted. See also 

 Hiibner and De Geer. 



