LEPIDOPTEBA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES 



351 



smaller, ample except in the more reduced Glyphipteryxes ; Sc con- 

 nected to E by a more or less. distinct crossvein; R and Mj separate, 

 parallel or divergent ; M., and Cu^ approximate, stalked, or united. Cu 2 

 farther from angle of cell than in fore wing, and without a fringe of 



FIGS. 212-217. GLYPHIPTERYGID.*: 



212, Simaethis diana, venation; 213, Choreutis pretiosana (Europe), venation; 

 214, Glyphipteryx loricatella (Europe), venation; 215, Glyphipteryx impigritella, 

 venation; 216, Choreutis species, side view of head; 217, Himaethis fabriciana 

 (Europe 1 ), seta map of larva 



hair on base of Cu ; 1st A and 3d A sometimes weak ; 2d A strongly 

 forked at base, more so than in any other frenate known to me. 



Egg of upright type. Larva (fig. 217) with front acute, extending 

 well toward, but not reaching, vertex ; ocelli normal ; upper anterior 

 seta of cervical shield farther from middle line than upper posterior 

 seta ; abdomen with seta i nearer middle line than ii, even on the eighth 

 segment ; iv and v close together ; prolegs slender, with a complete, 

 but often weak, circle of uniordinal hooks. Pupa (described by Miss 

 Mosher as Heliodinidae) incomplete, with some motion even between 

 the second and third abdominal segments; with some cremastral setae, 

 but no true cremaster. Abdominal segments with anterior rows of 

 fine spines only; wings reaching the fourth segment of abdomen; 

 spiracles not distinctly tubular; maxillary palpi, labial palpi, and front 



