GENUS PHALTENA. Ill 



in houses, among linens, and woollen cloths and 

 furniture, in which they eat holes, and to which 

 they are very destructive. 



Section IX. Alucita. — The antennae are seta- 

 ceous, with the feelers divided to the middle, the 

 inner division very acute. 



Section X. Pteropiiorus. — With two linear 

 naked feelers ; the tongue is exserted, membranace- 

 ous, and Ijifid : the wings are fan-shaped, divided 

 down to the base, and generally subdivided as far 

 as the middle : the larvie have sixteen ovate, hairy 

 feet ; the pupa; are naked, and subulate at the tip. 



Modern naturalists have taken a different view 

 of the arrangements of papilionaceous insects, and 

 formed them into various orders and new genera ; 

 these we shall describe at length in our third volume. 



