394 CLASS viu. 



Sub-genus Orneodes LATR. Labial palps longer than head, with 

 second joint very scaly, the last somewhat naked, erect. 



Sp. Pterophorus hexadactylus, Phalcena (Alucita) hexadactyla L., KEAUMUR, 

 Ins. i. PI. 19, figs. 19 ii } DUMKRIL, Cons. gen. s. 1. Ins. PL 43, fig. 8. 

 The sixteen-footed naked caterpillar feeds on the blossoms of Kamperfolia, 

 (Lonicera), and spins itself up when about to change into a pupa. The per- 

 fect insect has each wing divided into six slips, and keeps the wings when 

 at rest deflected. 



Tinea FABR. (and Alucita ejusd.) Anterior wings narrow, or 

 horizontal, incumbent, or convolute round the body or deflected and 

 erect backwards. Labial palps erect, maxillary palps often distinct. 

 Antennae setaceous. 



A. Labial palps short, pilose. Antenna, especially of males, mostly very 

 long, approximate. Eyes subcontiguous posteriorly. 



Sub-genus Adela LATE. (Alucita FABR. in part). 



Sp. Tinea Degeerella L., DE GEER, Ins.i. PL 32, fig. 13; GUERIN, Iconogr. 

 Ins. PL 91, fig. 7; FISCHER'S Abbildungen zur Microlepidopterologie, 1834, 

 Tab. 66, 67, figs, a c; P. LYONET, Ouvrage posthume, PL 19, figs. 17 

 25 ; wings gold brown with a yellow band on the fore-wing, which is 

 margined with violet. Expanded wings about 8'", antennae of male 14'" 

 long. In the pupa the antennae have special cases that project behind the 

 body. 



B. Labial palps moderate, very distinct. Eyes and antennce remote, 

 a) Tongue distinct, elongate. 



Sub-genera (Ecophora LATR., Ypononieuta LATR., Ilithyia, LATR., 

 Ornix TREITSCHKE. 



Sp. Tinea evonymella L. (Tponomeuta evon.}, EOESEL, Ins. i. Pap. nocturn. 

 Cl. IV. Tab. VIII; the caterpillars live socially in a web, as do those of 

 Yponomeuta cognatella, POES. 1. 1. Tab. vn. SEPP vi. Tab. xxvii, that live 

 on thorn-bushes and fruit-trees, and also, what is often confounded with 

 it, Tin. padetta L., SEPP v. Tab. xxxii. whose caterpillar lives on wil- 

 low-trees. 



6) Tongue very short. (Crest on the head of hairs or scales.) 



Sub-genus Tinea LATR. 



Sp. Tinea pellionella L., K(ESEL, Ins. I. Pap. nocturn. CL IV. Tab. xvn. tlie 

 fur-moth; shining brown upper wings with a black spot; it shews itself in 

 the spring ; according to TREITSCHKE there are two generations in a year ; 

 Tinea graneUa L., KCESEL, ibid. Tab. xn. &c. 



Crambus FABK. Fore-wings narrow, much longer than broad. 

 Maxillary or upper palps very distinct, porrect above the base of 



