DYAR: LARVAE OF THE HIGHER COMBYCES. 
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indicate points in the phytogeny at which the larvae acquired warts; 
the asterisks (*) points where cubitus of primaries became four 
branched. I append also a synopsis of the superfamilies of the 
larvae of the Lepidoptera. 
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SYNOPSIS OF SUPERFAMILIES OF TIIE LEPIDOPTERA. 
Setae primitive and simple, if modified still single; normal sub¬ 
primary ones absent though others may be present. 
Suborder Jugatae. 
Feet normal, the abdominal ones with rudimentary crotchets. 
Hepialides. 1 
Feet numerous with single hook or absent. Micropterygides. 
Setae primitive with normal subprimary ones present, or modified 
and supplemented by secondary structures. Suborder Frenatae. 
Subprimary setae present, represented in the functional arma¬ 
ture even when most modified. 
Tubercle vii forming an ordinary wart; no leg plate; iv 
and v united except in the lowest forms, in the highest, 
i and ii also united. Crotchets of abdominal feet usu¬ 
ally forming a nearly complete circle. 
Tineides ( Mi cr o lep i dop ter a ). 
Tubercle vii converted into a leg plate; iv and y usually 
separate, iv moved up behind the spiracle; i and ii sepa¬ 
rate (except in Nola). Crotchets of abdominal feet very 
rarely forming a circle. . . Bombycides ( JSToctuina). 
Subprimary setae absent or all greatly obscured after the first 
molt by secondary characters. 
Tubercles iv and v united, all the setae borne on pro¬ 
longed tubercles subject to various modifications. Usu¬ 
ally an unpaired dorsal tubercle on the eighth or ninth 
abdominal segment. Saturniides. 
Tubercles iv and v remote, v higher than iv, obscured after 
first molt. An unpaired process bearing tubercles i on 
the eighth abdominal segment. . . . Spiiingides. 
Tubercles iv and v remote, in line, or iv higher up than v. 
Mature armor for the most part secondary. 
Papilionides ( Rhopcdocera ) . 
1 The superfamily names are written as proposed by Grote, “ Systema Lepidopterorum 
Hildesiae,” 1895. 
