30 MODERN ARRANGEMENT OF 



This singular creature in of a rich orange colour , and lias 

 frequently caused great alarms amongst the ignorant and super- 

 stitious, from the praying attitude which it assumes. 



FAMILY III. TINEITES, Latreille. 



The caterpillars are provided with sixteen feet, or 

 sometimes more, living for the most part in fixed 

 or portable tubes, formed of the substances they 

 gnaw agglutinated together; but some are with- 

 out this covering ; upper wings narrow and long, 

 the lower broad and plicated, sometimes restin c 

 horizontally on the body, or hanging nearly ver- 

 tically on the sides, and raised upwards behind 

 body cylindrical, or narrow and elongated ; tl 

 labial palpi in some species short, almost cylin 

 drical, in others thrown backwards in the form 

 of horns ; the antennae are generally simple. 



The insects of this family are very small, but often ornamented 

 with brilliant colours. The margins of their wings are fringed. 

 The caterpillars have generally sixteen feet, and they live 

 under cover, some in tubes, which they fabricate, and others, 

 which have in consequence received the name of miners, in 

 galleries formed in the interior of leaves. The species which 

 destroy woollen cloths, furs, &c. inhabit portable tubes. The 

 miners furrow the parenchyma of leaves, and are sometimes 

 very destructive to fruits and seeds. 

 I. Antennae and eyes serrated. 

 1 . A distinct and elongated spiral trunk. 

 A. Wings resting horizontally on the body, or forming a rounded 



slope ; labial palpi not longer than the head. 

 The genera are LITHOSIA, YPONOMEUTA. 



