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Elacliistida\ — MaxilLary palpi of imago minute. Wings narrow and the veins reduced in 
number of branches. 
Lavernida\ 
Hypo n omentidcc, 
Argyresihidw, 
G lyph ip teryyidcv, 
Coleophoridiv. 
Oecophoridw. 
Plutellida\ 
Galechida\ — In the pupa of Cryptolechia (hgs. 22, 23) we have an example of the modern Pupa 
ohtecta, there being no eyepiece (maxillary xmlpi) and no labial i)alpi visible, while a cremaster 
is well developed. Both in its larval, pujial, and imaginal characters 
the transition to the Pterophoridm, Cranibidm, Phycidm, and Pyralida^ 
is not great, and we can thus see that these families may have 
descended from the Tineina, 
Family Talaporida’. — This group, coini)rising the genera Solenobia 
and Taheporia, has evidently either directly descended from the case- 
bearing Tiueidte or the two families have had a common origin. They 
form a side branch by themselves and 
are the direct ancestors of the broad - 
winged, more recent Psychid*‘e. Their 
relations are shown in the genealogical 
tree at the end of this chapter. 
The imagines have, according to 
Stainton, no maxillary i-^alpi, and the 
tongue is wanting, Mobile the females are 
wingless. The head is broad, and in 
fact in this group we have, so to si)eak, 
Tineid Bombyces. The venation (fig. 
50) is generalized Tineid, and it is evi- 
dent from a long abode in cases that the 
features which sei)arate the family so 
widely from the Tineidiv are the result 
of disuse and resulting adaptation. The 
family had diverged considerably from 
the Tineid source along a path which 
unmistakably ends in the Psychuhc, 
Without specimens of the wingless 
female we are unable at i)rescnt to compare them with those of 
the Psychube; and we still need examples of the larvm (living 
and in alcohol) to compare with those of the Tineids on the one 
hand and those of the J^sychidie on the other. 
Tlie pupa of TaUeporia pHeud<>homhycelkP (fig. 24) has a broad 
head, Avith distinct paraclypeal ])ieces and glazed-eye- sutures. 
The maxillary palpi {mx, p,) are large and well developed, extending under the eye from tlie 
antenme to the labial palpi, Avhich are large, but short and very broad. The maxilhe are present, 
but small. The abdomen bears no cremaster, but there are two terminal vsmall spines which 
may be the homologues of the anal-leg hooks of the i»upm of Psychidje. The scars of the four 
pairs of anterior abdominal legs are present, as in Psychidm. 
In T, coiispurcatella (fig. 25) the maxillm are much more rudimentary, and before exuviation 
concealed by the long labial palpi (w.r. p,)] the maxillary palpi [mx. p,) are large and triangular. 
‘I am greatly indebted to Dr. T. Algernon Chapman for kindly sending mo the pupio of the European 
T. peeudobombycella, and pupa*, with imago, of T, conspnrcalella. For the loan of Solenobia pineii and VHthhelhi, pupie- 
and other specimens, I am indebted to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. 
Fio. 20. — Pupa of Tiacheria marginea; 
A', end of body, showing spines; A, the 
same, side view. 
Fig. 19. — Pupa of Tischeria tinC' 
torella. $ . 
