218 INSECTA. 
with the first budding of the Oak. Their wings are usually bril- 
liant. 
A. Degeerella; Alucita Degeerella, 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; superior 
wings golden and immaculate(1). 
The teuth and last section of the Nocturnal Lepidoptera, that of the 
Fisswrennx (Pterophorites, Lat.), is closely related to the preceding 
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 longitu- 
dinally in the manner of branches or fingers with fringed edges, and 
resembling feathers. ‘The wings resemble those of Birds. 
Linnzus comprised these Lepidoptera in his division of the Pha- 
lene alucite, De Geer calls them Phalenzx-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, coyered with hairs or little tubercles, sometimes 
suspended by a thread, and sometimes fixed to a bed of silk on leaves, 
&e., by means of the terminal hooks of the abdomen. 
P. pentadactylus, Fab.; Rees. Insect., I, Class IV, Pap. Noct., 
vy. Snow-white wings; the superior divided into two slips, and 
the inferior into three(2). 
Sometimes the inferior palpi project, are longer than the head, and 
have the second joint densely covered with scales, and the last 
a eee 
the preceding subgenus, see the Monograph of the genus Phycis, in the Magas. 
der Entom., IH, of, Germar. 
(1) See Fab., Entom. Syst., Supp.; Lat., Gener. Crust. et Insect., IV, 225; and 
Hubner, Tinez, XIX. 
(2) The other Pterophori of Fabricius, the heccadactylus excepted. See also 
Hubner and De Geer. 
