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the Naryciids, to have reached their present form. There are, also, 

 certain other characters in the early stages (which will be dealt with at 

 length in considering the genus Solenobia), that separate this family 

 very decidedly from the latter. The family, too, is important as being 

 one of those that tend to unite the Psychids with the Tineids, not 

 only in the female having wings, and the scaling thick (not flimsy and 

 thin as in the Psychids), but also in the metallic lines which suggest 

 in some measure the Tineids represented by vinculella, &c. But the 

 greatest difference between the Naryciids and the remaining Micro- 

 Psychids exists, perhaps, in the antennae, for, like those of Psychoides 

 verhuella, the antennae of Narycia monilifera have two rows of scales 

 completely encircling each segment in the ? , and only have, in the 

 male, hairs like other Psychids. 



Subfamily : naryciin^e. 



Tribe : naryciidi. 



Genus : narycia, Stephens. 



Synonymy. — Genus : Narycia, St., " Nom. Br. Ins.," 2nd ed., p. 118 (1833) ; "111. 

 Brit. Ent.,"vi., p. 154(1836); Crt., "Guide," 2nd ed., p. 17'2,no.76(M(1837) ; Westwd., 

 " Syn. Gen. Br. Ins.," p. 51 (1840) ; Kol., " Gen. Sp. Trichop.," i., p. 102 (1848) ; 

 Ibid.,pt. ii., pp. 163, 181, 293 (1859); Hgn., " Stett. Ent. Zeit.," xiii., pp. 156, 233 (1852), 

 xx., p. 203 (1859); " Ent. Ann.," 1859, p. 108 (1858) ; " Ver. z.-b. Ges. Wien," xiv., 851 

 (1864); Wkr., " Cat. Neur.," i., 135, 154 (1852); White, " List Br. An. B. Mus.,"xiv., 15 

 (1853) ; Doug., " Ent. Wk. Int.," ii., p. 59 (1857) ; McLach., " Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond.," 

 3rd ser., v., 169 (1865) ; " Ent. Mo. Mag.," xxxiv., p. 186 (1898) ; Meyr., " Hand- 

 book," p. 776 (1895). [Tinaea, in part, Geoff., " Hist. Ins.," ii., 189-190, no. 18 

 (1762), reprint (1764), 2nd. ed. (1800) ; Wernebg., " Beitr.," i., 313, no. 18 (1864).] 

 Tinea, in part, Geoff. (Fourc), " Ent. Paris," ii., p. 325 (1785); Haw., "Lep. 

 Brit.," pt. 4, p. 566 (1828) ; Sta., " Cat.," p. 6 (1849) ; " Supp. Cat.," p. 17 (1851) ; 

 "Ent. Comp.," pp. 10, 30, 36, 39 (1852); Doug., " Zool.," 1851, p. 3184; Brd., 

 " Lep. Doubs," iii., livr. 5-6, p. 31 (1850) ; Fre, " Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg.," ii., p. 110 

 (1858) ; Now., " Enum. Lep. Hal. Or.," pp. 169-170 (1860). Lampronia, in part, 

 Stphs., " Cat.," p. 227 (1829) ; " Norn. Br. Ins.," p, 51 (1829) ; " 111. Brit. Ent.," 

 iv., p. 358 (1835) ; Crt., "Guide," p. 187 (1831), 2nd ed., p. 215 (1835); Wood, 

 " Ind. Ent.," p. 230 (1839) ; Humph, and Westd., "Brit. Moths," ii., p. 252 (1851), 

 2nd ed. (1854) ; Hdrch., "Eur. Lep. Cat.," p. 78(1851); Koch," Schmett. Deutsch.," 

 iii., 373 (1856). Adda, in part, F. von B., "Abbild. Ber. Schmett.," 5. 156 (1834). 

 Xysmatodoma, Zell., " Linn. Ent.," vii., pp. 332, 362 (1852) ; Frey, " Die Tineen," 

 &c, p. 14 (1856) ; "Lep. der Schweiz,"p.335 (1880) ; H.-Sch., " Sys. Bearb.," v., 

 p. 26, pi. xi.,7 (1853) ; p. 89 (1854) ; Sta., "Ins. Brit.," p. 21, pi. i., la-c (1854) ; " List 

 Br. An. Br. Mus.," xvi., p. 6 (1854) ; " Man.," ii., p. 287 (1859) ; Staud. and Wocke, 

 " Cat.," p. 105(1861), p. 267 (1871) ; Hein., " Schmett. Deutsch. Tin.," p. 34 (1870) ; 

 "Tin.," 2,Tab. 3 (1876) ; Mill., "Cat. Lep. Alp.-Mar.," p. 98 (1875); Bang-Haas, 

 " Nat. Tids." (3), x., p. 2 (1875) ; Hrtm., " Mitt. Miin. Ent. Ver.," iii., p. 197 (1879) ; 

 Band, "Cat. Lep. Auv.," p. 154 (1879); Snell., " DeVlind.," pp. 416, 450(1882); Pey., 

 " Cat. Lep. Als.," p. 84 (1882) ; Curo, " Bull. Soc. Ent. It.," xv., p. 5 (1883) ; Sorh., 

 " Die Kleinsch. Brandbg.," p. 142 (1886) ; Meyr., " Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales," 

 vii., p. 490 (1893). Conoeca, Scott, " Aust. Lep.," i., 26 (1865); Wkr., "Cat.," 

 xxxv., 1925 (1866) ; F. and R., " Beise Nov. Lep.," v., expl. pi. 138 (1875) ; Bsnstk., 

 "Ann. and. Mag. N. Hist.," xvi., 440 (1885), vide Meyr., " Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. 

 Wales," vii., p. 490 (1893). CEcobia, Scott, "Aust. Lep.," i., p. 27 (1865); Wkr., 

 " Cat.," xxxv., 1924 (1866), vide Meyr., "Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales," vii., p. 490 

 (1893). 



Stephens diagnosed (Illustrations of British Lepidojrtera, vi., p. 154) 

 tli is genus as follows : — 



" Antennrc with the basal joint pilose and much incrassated, the remainder 

 furnished ( <$ ) on each side with long hairs; maxillary palpi drooping, very pilose, 

 rather short; head transverse-ovate, pilose in front ; eyes moderate, lateral, scarcely 

 prominent ; thorax ovate ; wings strongly defiexed during repose ; anterior elongate- 

 elliptic, obtusely rounded at the apex, which is furnished with short scaly cilia j 



