Phalepa. LEPIDOPTERA. H3 



Many of the Tinias have incum- 

 bent wings expanded their whole 

 breadth, and feem to form a very 

 diftindt fe&ion, differing from the 

 Tinix in that particular ; from 

 the Pyralides in the want of palpi, 

 and diftinguifhed from the other 

 families of Phalxnx by their por- 

 redted forehead, and a kind of 

 fringe, with which the interior 

 margins of their wings, are edged. 



8. Alacitce : the wings of this divifion are 

 fplit, or divided into branches, al- 

 moft to their bafe. 



Geoffroy has feparated ihe laft family of our 

 author, the Ph. Alucita^ from the other Pha- 

 lcenas, under the generical name of Pterophorus* 

 on account of the chryfalids of the infecls 

 belonging to it being naked, and fufpended ho- 

 rizontally in the open air, as thofe of the Da- 

 nai Candidi^ or third family of butterflies, in 

 which particular they certainly differ efTentially 

 from the Phalcena, whofe Chryfalids are either 

 concealed in the ground, or protected from the 

 inclemency of the weather by a covering, which 



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