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MODEM? SYSTEM. 
S tip. ps 4. — Caterpillars with fourteen feet, anal ones wanting; the first 
pair of membranaceous ones distinct. 
Genus 363. PLATYPTERYX. Laspeyeres, Latr., Leach. Pha- 
uena. Fahr. 
Anterior wings falcate : antenna: of the male pectinate : palpi very short, 
somewhat conic : tongue short. 
Sp. 1. Pla.fakataria (pebble hooktip). 2. Fla. lacertanaria (the scol- 
loped hooktip), &.c. 
Obs. — T he last species has the anterior wings dentate. 
Genus 364. CILIX. Leach. Bomby n. Fabr. Platypteryx. Latr- 
Anterior wings rounded : antenna of the male pectinated : palpi very 
short, somewhat conic : tongue none. 
Sp. 1. Cil. compressa (goose-egg moth). 
Bombyx compressus. Fabr. 
Stirps 5. — Caterpillars with sixteen feet : wings with the body forming 
a broad short triangle, dilated on each side anteriorly. 
Genus 365. TORTRIX. Hiibner, Leach. Piial-Ina (Tortrix). 
Linni. Py kalis. Latr., Fabr. 
Palpi with the second joint distinctly longer titan the third, and more 
squamous; third joint short, truncate or obtuse, not recurved over 
the head. 
Sp. 1. Tor. Fagana. 
Genus 366. SIMAETHIS. Leach. Tortrix. Hiibner. Pyralis. 
Latr. 
Palpi short, rising; the last joint not recurved over the head; with 
the second and third joints nearly equally long and equally squa- 
mose : inferior wings not completely covered by the upper ones. 
Sp. 1. Sim. dentana. 
Tortrix dentana. Hiibner. 
Genus 367. NOLA. Leach. Pyralis. Hub., Latr. 
Palpi short, porrect, last joint not recurved over the head; the second 
and third joints nearly equally long and equally squamose: under 
wings completely covered by the upper ones. 
Sp. 1. Nola paU'wlatis. 
Pyralis palliolatis. Hiibner, Latr. 
Farm X. Pyralid.l. Leach. 
Crambites. Latreille. 
Palpi four : laroa (as far as has been ascertained) with sixteen feet. 
Stirps 1 . — Superior wings forming with the body a nearly horizontal 
depressed triangle. 
