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Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . inner lobe of the maxilla, but have had no material forexamination to settle this poiut. If this should prove to be the caseit would carry the family down among the Lepidoptera luciniata. Another striking feature of the imagines of this Iamily is thelong ovipositor, which is very extensile, the terminal Jointhorny, in one piece, and adaptedto iiiercing and sawing. (Kiley.)The family evidently is amore primitive one than theHepialidie, although the laivain one genus is entirely apodousand thus much Tlneklcc.—This group comprises gene
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . inner lobe of the maxilla, but have had no material forexamination to settle this poiut. If this should prove to be the caseit would carry the family down among the Lepidoptera luciniata. Another striking feature of the imagines of this Iamily is thelong ovipositor, which is very extensile, the terminal Jointhorny, in one piece, and adaptedto iiiercing and sawing. (Kiley.)The family evidently is amore primitive one than theHepialidie, although the laivain one genus is entirely apodousand thus much Tlneklcc.—This group comprises generalized forms ofTineina. The larvib are sack-bearers, buthave five pairs of abdominal legs; the wingsare rather broad and the venation is gener-alized, that of Tinea bisellieUa showing noreduction in the number of veins. The max-illary palpi are five and six-Jointed. Thepupa (fig. IG, Tinea tapetzella) has well-devel-oped maxillary palpi { p.)- the maxillie Fig. 13.— pnpal skin of TegeticulayuccaseJla;mx. maxillary
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