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The Psendo-Tinez content themselves with mining the interior 
of the vegetable and animal substance on which they feed, and 
forming simple galleries, or if they construct sheaths either with 
those matters or silk, they are always fixed, and are mere places of 
retreat. 
These caterpillars which perforate in various directions the pa- 
renchyma of the leaves on which they feed, have been called Mineuses 
or Miners. They produce those desiccated spaces in the form of 
spots and undulating lines, frequently observed on leaves. Buds, 
fruits, and seeds of plants, frequently those of wheat, and even the 
resinous galls of certain Coniferze, serve for aliment and habitations 
to others. These Insects are frequently ornamented with the most 
brilliant colours. In several species the superior wings are decorated 
with golden or silver spots, sometimes even in relievo. 
Some, in which the four palpi are always distinct *, exposed, or 
merely partly concealed (the superior ones) by the scales of the cly- 
peus, salient, and of a moderate size, resemble Phaleene—P. pyra- 
lides, L.;—their tectiform wings most frequently flattened, or but 
slightly raised, form an elongated triangle or sort of delta. 
Sometimes the proboscis is very apparent, and serves for its ordi- 
nary use, The caterpillars of these species live on various plants. 
Botys, Lat. 
These caterpillars are leaf-rollers and do not differ externally 
from the others, as to their organs of respiration. 
B. urticata; P. urticata L.; Rees., Insect., I, Phal. XIV. 
Thorax and extremity of the abdomen yellow; wings white, 
with blackish spots, forming bands. 
Its caterpillar folds the leaf of the Nettle, and remains nine 
months in its cocoon before it becomes a nymph; it is naked 
and green, with a deeper stripe of the same colour along the 
back. 
The same plant nourishes the caterpillar of another spe- 
cies—the P. verticalis, L.—Reoes., Ibid. I, Phal., 4, iv. The 
perfect Insect is pale-yellowish, glossy, with some obscure trans- 
verse lines most apparent underneath t. 
Hyprocamprg, Lat. 
This subgenus is composed of species very analogous to the pre- 
ceding ones, but their caterpillars are aquatic, and usually furnished 
with appendages resembling long hairs, inside of which are trachex. 
* The Yponomeute, one or two excepted, Cicophore and Adele are almost the 
only Tineites whose maxillary palpi are not very apparent; but as they may be con- 
cealed by the inferior ones, and as it is very difficult to establish in this respect a 
fixed and rigorous line of demarcation, we have not thought proper to divide the 
Tineites according to the number of those organs. M. Savigny, in his Memoirs on 
the invertebrate animals, has published some figures in which they have various pro- 
portions. The new genera, which he merely mentions, are unknown to us. 
+ The Phalene forjicalis, purpuraria, margaritalis, alpinalis, sanguinalis, &e. of 
Fabricius, 
