30 MODERN ARRANGEMENT OF 
This singular creature is of a rich orange colour ; and has 
frequently caused great alarms amongst the ignorant and super- 
stitious, from the praying attitude which it assumes, 
Famity III].—Tinzirzs, Latreille. 
The caterpillars are provided with sixteen feet, or 
sometimes more, living for the most part in fixed 
or portable tubes, formed of the substances they 
gnaw agglutinated together ; but some are with- 
out this covering ; upper wings narrow and long, 
the lower broad and plicated, sometimes resting 
horizontally on the body, or hanging nearly ver- 
tically on the sides, and raised upwards behind ; 
body cylindrical, or narrow and elongated ; the 
labial palpi in some species short, almost cylin- 
drical, in others thrown backwards in the form 
of horns ; the antenne are generally simple. 
The insects of this family are very small, but often ornamented 
with brilliant colours. The margins of their wings are fringed. 
The caterpillars have generally sixteen feet, and they live 
under cover, some in tubes, which they fabricate, and others, 
which have in consequence received the name of miners, in 
galleries formed in the interior of leaves. The species which 
destroy woollen cloths, furs, &c. inhabit portable tubes. The 
miners furrow the parenchyma of leayes, and are sometimes 
very destructive to fruits and seeds. 
I. Antennm and eyes serrated. 
1, A distinct and elongated spiral trunk. 
A. Wings resting horizontally on the body, or forming a rounded 
slope ; labial palpi not longer than the head. 
The genera are Liruosia, Yronomeura. 
