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BRITISH LEPIDOPTERA. 



the females. Above the Solenobiid branch, another (the Lumid) was 

 given off, which, whilst retaining the characteristic Taleporiid <? pupa, 

 became specialised with regard to — (1) its case (conical), (2) larva, 

 which has the tubercles arranged quite in the form of the higher Psychids, 



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Phylogenetic Tree illustrating the development of the Psychids 

 erom a hypothetical base. 



(3) imaginal antenna, and (4) the assumption of the higher Psychid 

 character of the female pupa being retained within the larval case. 

 From the main stem the Fumeids also arose, the larva with the 

 posterior trapezoidals (ii) having migrated nearer to the mediodorsal 



