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the eggs laid exposed. Larvae leaf-miners or bast-miners when 

 mature. 



Family 5. Nepticulidae. Characters of the superfamily. 



**Aculece confined to small areas or absent. 

 \Larvai with warts i and ii, iv and v united. 



Superfamily Zygaenoidea. Moth with primitive venation, large 

 wings, and minute maxillary palpi or none; Sc and R of hind wing 

 usually uniting along cell. Larvae short and slug-like; typically with 

 diffuse hair-tufts; pupa primitive, incomplete, with all segments free; 

 first abdominal spiracle uncovered, maxillae usually extended and toothed 

 laterally, but without maxillary palpus. 



Family 6. Megalopygidae. Moths with tongue obsolete; wings heavily and 

 loosely clothed with soft scales, often mixed with curly hair; hind wings with 

 Sc and R fused for most of length of cell. Larvae with 14 prolegs, 10 of , them 

 with an angulate or broken band of hooks. 



Family 7. Eucleidae. Moths with tongue obsolete; wings usually heavy and 

 loosely scaled; hind wings with Sc and R shortly fused near base. Larvae with 

 prolegs abr.nt, replaced by a system of sucking discs; hairy, spiny, or naked. 



Family 8. Pyromorphidae. Moths with tongue strongly developed. Wings trans- 

 lucent; hind wings with Sc and R fused toward outer end of cell, the basal part 

 of R also fused with Sc or obsolete. Larvae with tufted hair; with 10 prolegs, 

 provided with normal hooks. 



\\Larv(R with warts i and ii separate, iv and v often united. 



$" Micros." LarvcB ivith three setcR on prespiracular wart, 

 usually concealed feeders; moths with soft-scaled wings with 

 l)road fringes, broadest at anal angle, the wings often lanceo- 

 late or linear; R 5 often running to costa or apex; accessory 

 cell, when distinct, with its broad side resting on discal cell, 

 often fusing with it; hind wing with Sc and R never fus- 

 ing beyond cell, and very rarely at any point, the base of R 

 often obsolete; 1st A rarely lost unless wing is very narrow; 

 tongue very often scaled at base. 



Superfamily Tineoidea. Larvae with setae iv and v separate; pupa 

 normally incomplete; moth normally with rough head, often with 

 folded maxillary palpi; tongue scaled when present; fore wing usu- 

 ally with R 3 running to costa, hind wing with R and M t separate, 

 Sc and R typically approximate at base. 



Family 9. Tineidae. Larvae with anal prolegs unlike the ventrals; most often 

 . icavengers; moths winged in both sexes, without a heavy anal tuft in the female; 

 usually with rough head, folded maxillary palpi, and bristles on the labial palpi, 

 or with the first joint of the labial palpi enlarged. 



Family 10. Psychidae. Larvae with anal prolegs similar to the ventrals, each 

 with a single ellipse of hooka, broken on inner side; always living in a caae. 

 Female moth with a tuft of heavy hair-scales at the end of the abdomen, which 



