CLASS VIII. ORDERS xI. & Xu. 109 
wards the extremity, commonly ter minating in a 
knob or clavate tip ; wings when sitting , erect and 
meeting upwards ; flight “diurnal. 
SpHINX, (hawk-miller,) antennie thickest in the 
middle, subprismatic and attenuated at each ex- 
tremity ; wings deflected ; flight strong and com- 
monly in the morning or evening. 
PHALAENA, (candle- miller, moth,) antennez se- 
taceous, gradually lessening from the base to tip $ 
Wings, when sitting, generally deflexed and bent 
down archwise 3; flight nocturnal. 
ORDER 11. RHIPTERA. 
Having two membranaceous wings plaited inte 
a fan, with two small elytralike moveable bodies 
near their origin, at the forepart of the corslet. 
Al very trifling order, probably will be rejected 
hereafter. 
Xenos, two branches of antennze have no ar-’ 
ticulation ; the abdomen is horned. Under scales 
of other insects. 
Stytops, the upper branch of the hindmost 
piece of the antennz is composed of three smal} 
joints ; the abdomen is retractile and fleshy.— 
Under scales of other insects. 
ORDER 12. DIPTERA. 
_ Having but two wings. 
CuLEx, (gnat, musqueto,) mouth consisting of 
setaceous piercers, within a flexible sheath. 
Tipua, (crane-fiy,) mouth arched over by the 
upper jaw extending from the head ; palpi 2, re- 
eurved, longer than the head ; proboscis recurved, 
very short. 
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