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I also refer to it the 7. harisella, whose caterpillar, according 
to the observations of Hubert, Jun. forms a sort of hammock *. 
Sometimes the inferior palpi are very small, and hairy. The 
antenne are almost always very long, and the eyes are closely ap- 
proximated. 
Avena, Lat—Auveira, Fab. 
These Insects are found in the woods, and several species appear 
with the first budding of the Oak. Their wings are usually bril- 
hant. 
A. Degeerella; Alucita Degeerellia, Fab.; De Geer, Insect., 
I, xxxii, 13. The antennz thrice the length of the body, and 
whitish, the inferior portion black; superior wings golden- 
yellow, on a black ground, forming longitudinal streaks, with a 
broad, golden-yellow, transverse band, margined with violet. 
A, Reaumurella; Alucita Reaumurella, Fab. Black; supe- 
rior wings golden, and immaculate f. 
The tenth and last section of the Nocturnal Lepidoptera, that of 
the Fissipenn® (Pterophorites, Lat.), is closely related to the pre- 
ceding one, so far as relates to the narrow and elongated form of the 
body and upper wings, but is removed from it, as well as from all 
others of this order by the four wings, or at least two, being split 
longitudinally, in the manner of branches or fingers with fringed 
edges, and resembling feathers. The wings resemble those of 
Birds. 
Linnzeus comprised these Lepidoptera in his division of the Pha- 
lene alucite; De Geer calls them / halane-tipule. 
With us, as with Geoffroy and Fabricius, they constitute the sub- 
genus 
PTEROPHORUS. 
The caterpillars have sixteen feet, and live on leaves or flowers, 
without constructing a tube. 
Sometimes the inferior palpi are recurved from their origin, are 
entirely covered with little scales, and not longer than the head. 
They form the genus Pterophorus proper of Latreille. Their chry- 
salides are exposed, covered with hairs, or little tubercles, sometimes 
suspended by a thread, and sometimes fixed to a bed of silk on leaves, 
&c., by means of the terminal hooks of the abdomen. 
P. pentadactylus, Fab.; Rees. Insect., I, Class 1V, Pap. Noct., 
v. Snow-white wings; the superior divided into two slips, and 
the inferior into three i. 
Sometimes the inferior palpi project, are longer than the head, and 
have the second juint densely covered with scales, and the last 
* The Tinea majoreila,, Geoffroyella, rujimitrella, &c. of Hiibner. For this and 
the preceding subgenus, see the Monograph of the genus, Phycis, in the Magas. der 
Entom., Ii], of Germar. 
+ See Fab., Entom. Syst,, Supp.; Lat., Gener. Crust. et Insect., IV, 223; and 
Hubner, Tine, XIX. 
t The other Pteropbori of Fabricius, the Aevadactylus excepted. See also 
Hiibner and De Geer. 
