LEPIDOPTERA. 211 
Lat.(1), consists of species very analogous to true Phalenz, but 
whose caterpillars have fourteen legs, and roll up leaves. In the 
perfect Insect the inferior palpi are elongated and recurved. Its 
wings and body, onthe sides of which the former are extended hori- 
zontally, form a sort of delta, marked by a re-entering angle in the 
posterior side, or appearing to be forked. The antennz are usually 
pectinated or ciliated. 
The Deltoides form the subgenus 
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Herminia, Lat. 
Which belongs to the division of the Pyralides of Linnzus, and 
is composed of the genus HMybixa, Fab., and of several of his 
Crambi(2). 
The ninth section of the nocturnal Lepidoptera, that of the Tr- 
nEITES—Tineites, Lat.; Phalenz tinew, L., and most of his P. py- 
ralides—comprises the smallest species of this order. Their cater- 
pillars are always closely shorn, furnished with sixteen feet at least, 
and rectigrade, living concealed in dwellings fabricated by them- 
selves, either fixed or movable. Here the wings form a sort of elon- 
gated and almost flattened triangle, terminated by a re-entering 
angle; such are the Pyralides of Linnzeus(3)s3 they have four distinct 
and usually exposed palpi. There, the superior wings are long and 
narrow, sometimes moulded on the body, and forming a sort of 
rounded roof to it, sometimes almost perpendicularly decumbent and 
laid on the sides, and frequently raised or ascending posteriorly like 
the tail of acock. In both cases the inferior wings are always wide 
and plaited. These species also frequently have the four palpi ex- 
posed. 
All the caterpillars, whose habitations (sheaths) are fixed or im- 
movable, are the Pseudo-Tinex of Reaumur; those which construct 
portable ones, which they transport with them, are true Tinez. 
The substances on which they feed, or on which they reside, fur- 
nish the materials of the structure. ax be 
Of those sheaths which are composed of vegetable matters, many 
are very singular. Some, like those of the Adelz, are covered ex- 
teriorly with portions of leaves laid one over the other and forming 
(1) In the first edition of this work, this section comprised all the Phalene 
pyralides of Linneus. A complication of characters, however, was the result, 
which disappears by merely including the Herminie. That of the Tinzites will 
then consist exclusively of the Tinex, and Psewdo-Tinex of Réaumur. 
(2) Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., LV, 228. 
(S) They might form a separate section. 
