Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . ahbotii; fh, cocoon- —Pupa, nf Thyridopteryx ephemercvforinis, cf ;A, side view of end of body, sbowiDg oue of the twoterminal hooks; vestiges of 3 pairs of abdominal legs- MEMOIES OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 71 and limbless. It is very plain that they are an ofishoot from the Tineoids, and especially fromthe Tahiporida, which have no tongue and whose females are wingless and sack-bearers. licnuirks on the Family Ilejnalida.—This group is assigned by Comstock, from the venaticmalone, to a position at the bottom of the lepidopterous
Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . ahbotii; fh, cocoon- —Pupa, nf Thyridopteryx ephemercvforinis, cf ;A, side view of end of body, sbowiDg oue of the twoterminal hooks; vestiges of 3 pairs of abdominal legs- MEMOIES OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 71 and limbless. It is very plain that they are an ofishoot from the Tineoids, and especially fromthe Tahiporida, which have no tongue and whose females are wingless and sack-bearers. licnuirks on the Family Ilejnalida.—This group is assigned by Comstock, from the venaticmalone, to a position at the bottom of the lepidopterous scale, even beh)W the Chapman it is more coi-rectly jdaced above tlie latter grou]). He even jdaces it abovethe Nepticulida, Adelidte, and Tischeria. The Iamily e^?identlJf branched off from tineid-likeforms. Since receiving and studying Chapmans pa]ier it lias become very i>lain to me that Ilepiahisand its allies are simjily colossal Tineoids, and thatSpeyer was right in ISTd in suggesting that theHepiali<be
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