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Show INSECTA. 210 . and at an angle of forty-five . to confound them. In thls wa~. h they are attached, these lS easy 'th the limb to w lC degrees, or nlore, Wl d even days. animals rema·m ~o t. hours 1a no st naked, or their cocoon is extremely The chrysalides are a m . 'lk thin, and poorly furnis.hed :rl::es~a;erpillars, contains but one subThis section, exclusive genus, or PHAL.JENA proper. '11 of the Phalama margaritar~·a , F a b ., has twelve The caterp1 ar ~ (1)' the others have but ten. t I Class III, Pap. Noct., VI. 1eet , . L Rres Insec • ' 1 P Sa d · gs mbucana, .; ., . F nee· sulphur-co oure ; wm 0 e• o f the largest that m. hablts ra tra' nsverse strl. pes; t h e .lD L"e - n k d with brown, f t 'I ex tended and mart et he externa1 an gle in the mannet• o a at ' rior prolonged a . ots may be observed. w h e re two small bla. ckbt sh snp resemb l'm g a little stick both .i n The caterpillar 1s row '. fi d oval. With this spec1es The head 1S at an . '1 form and colour. . h . ferior wings have a s1m1 ar f wb1ch t e m and some others, o d the enus Ourapteryx. shape, Dr Leach bas formeib' d i where the antennce are peep syringaria, L.; R.res., ~ ., ' ;'aspered by a mixture of . . d . the male, whose wmgs are tmate m dd' h yellowish, brown, and re lS • t tubercles on its back, in addi· The caterpillar has four stou h k on the eighth ring. d a horn or oo · h tion to smaller ones, an . II 'V'ings white, spotted wtt p groasularia, Rres., Ibid., . th upper ones, one near the • d f ale yellow on e black; two ban 5 0 P . ond th6' middle. . base and the other a httle bey b e spotted with black; tn· ' '11 . bluish-grey a ov ' The caterp1 ar 1S dotted with black. ferior side and venter yellow, t L as well as those of some The female of the Ph. bruma ad~ ., ts of wings. They only analogous spect. es, h ave mere ru 1men appear in winter(2). . r Ph a six ailes), the male of De Geer describes a spectes " . . l' 'or ones with a little hich appears to have s.t x w ings ' the m1er1 :ppendage which is laid on them~~~ that of the DELTOIDES, The eighth section of the Noctu ' (1) The type of my sub genus METUOC.A.l\U'E. b nus Hr»E.B.:NI.A.. (2) They form my su ?'e Fabricius and Hubner. (3) }'or the other specles, see LEPIDOPTERA. 211 IJat.(l ), consists of species very analogous to true Phalcence, but whose caterpilla1·s have fourteen legs, and roll up leaves. In the perfect Insect the inferior palpi are elongated and recurved. Its wings and body, on the sides of which the former are extended horizontally, form a sort of delta, marked by a re-entering angle in the posterior side, or appearing to be forked. The antennce are usually pectinated or ciliated. The Deltoides form the subgenus HERMINIA, Lat. Which belongs to the division of the Pyralidea of Linnceus, and is composed of the genus Hybl~a, Fab., and of several of his Orambi(2). The ninth section of the nocturnal Lepidoptera, that of the TI· NEITEs-Tincites, Lat.; Phalt:ene£ tinee£, L., and most of llis P. pyralidea- comprises the smallest species of this order. Their cater· pillars are always closely shorn, furnished with sixteen feet at least, and rectigrade, living concealed in dwellings fabricated by themselves, either fixed or movable. Here the wings form a sort of elongated and almost flattened triangle, terminated by a re-entering angle; such are the Pyralidea of Linnceus(3); they have four distinct and usually exposed palpi. There, the superior wings are long and narrow, sometimes moulded on the body, and forming a sort of rounded roof to it, sometimes almost perpendicularly decumbent and laid on the sides, and frequently raised or ascending posteriorly like the tail of a cock. In both cases the inferior wings are always wide and plaited. These species a1so frequently have the four paJpi exposed. All the caterpillars, whose habitations (sheaths) are fixed or immovable, are the Pseudo-Tine~ of Reaumur; those which construct portable ones, which they transport with them, are true Tinece. The substances on which they feed, or on which they reside, furrJish the materials ·of the structure. Of those sheaths which are composed of vegetable matters, many are very singular. Some, like those of the Adelce, are covered exteriorly with portions of leaves laid one over the other and forming (1) In the first edition of this work, this section comprised all the Phalamm pyralide8 of Linnzus. A complication of characters, however, was the result, which disappears by merely including the Herminiz. That of the Tinzites wiH then consist exclusively of the Tinem, and Pseudo-Tinem of Reaumur. (2) Lat., Gen. Crust. et Insect., lV, 228. (3) They might form a separate section. |
