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Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . iiiaiiy vestiyes of areliaic features, iistiiilly with narrow wings,of (lull hues or with luetallie. bars, or with specialized scales, and spot^, and the venationgeneralized in tlie earlier forms. The maxilhe are sometimes aborted (wholly so in Ilepialidai);l)ali)i either well develoi)ed, more or less reduced, or wanting; ni;iudil)les rarely 0(;(uirring asminute vestiges; the thorax iieuropttroid; in the more primitive forms, becoming shorter, and thesegments fused together in the later or more sjjecialized groups. The pnpa, are incomplete
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . iiiaiiy vestiyes of areliaic features, iistiiilly with narrow wings,of (lull hues or with luetallie. bars, or with specialized scales, and spot^, and the venationgeneralized in tlie earlier forms. The maxilhe are sometimes aborted (wholly so in Ilepialidai);l)ali)i either well develoi)ed, more or less reduced, or wanting; ni;iudil)les rarely 0(;(uirring asminute vestiges; the thorax iieuropttroid; in the more primitive forms, becoming shorter, and thesegments fused together in the later or more sjjecialized groups. The pnpa, are incomplete; the more prinutive forms with the eye collar; labial jialpi visible;paraclypeal pieces distinct; abdomen (dten in the most piimitive forms with no creniaster. LarviB with one-haired tubercles, the four dorsal ones arranged in a trapezoid on abdominalsegments 1-8; usually a prothoracic dorsal plate; the abdominal legs sometimes wanting in certainuduing forms and Cochliopodid;e; larv;e often case-bearers or borers; crochets on the abdominal.
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