Monograph of the bombycine moths of North America, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature . para-clypeal piece; 7/ia:, labium. Fia. 23.—Pupa of Crypto-lechia ijurrccUa, $ ; I—III, lejis. 3[(). 24.—Pu)ia it( Talitpuria 2>seudnhomtiiicella: .1, bend eular^ed; B. end of boily. Zeller, has outstripped the American one in the process ofdegeneration and modification, and the maxilhe (fig. 27, mx.)are very much shorter and smaller, though the maxillary palpiare of the same shape and size. In thisgenus the abdomen has no eremaster and noterminal hooked spines
Monograph of the bombycine moths of North America, including their transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature . para-clypeal piece; 7/ia:, labium. Fia. 23.—Pupa of Crypto-lechia ijurrccUa, $ ; I—III, lejis. 3[(). 24.—Pu)ia it( Talitpuria 2>seudnhomtiiicella: .1, bend eular^ed; B. end of boily. Zeller, has outstripped the American one in the process ofdegeneration and modification, and the maxilhe (fig. 27, mx.)are very much shorter and smaller, though the maxillary palpiare of the same shape and size. In thisgenus the abdomen has no eremaster and noterminal hooked spines, the pupa in exuvia-tion being fastened to tlie sides of the cocoonby numerous hooked seta^ (fig. 20, A). Family rmjchirliv.—The transition fromthe Taluporidie to the Psychida is a mostimtural one, whether we compare the pupaor inmgo. In I^umea the wingless femaleshave legs and antenna,wliilc in Psyche theyare wanting and theynever leave their case,or when the female ofI^umea escapes fromtlu ])ui)a, it emergesfrom the case and sitson the outside (Stain-ton). On reading theviews of Simler we dis-covered, by comparing. tbe pupa of the two groups, their evident relationsbip. Indeed, Spuler appears to placeTalaporia in the Psychidse, thougb at present tbey are universally referied to tbe Tineina, MEMOIRS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 69 remarking- tliat its venation is typically Tineinan. He adds tliat in shape and mode of life thefemales of manj- species of Funiea, and those of Epichnopteryx and of the Taheporidse, are muchmore nearly related to each other than those of other species of Fumea and Psyche the speciesof the latter genus falling into two groups,judging by their Aenation, and be states thatFsyche febretta is -tlie nearest relation ofthe type from which on the one side theZyganidiB and on the other the ArctiidiC andLiparida^ have descended. The Lithosiidieare also perhaps to be added, and indeedbelong to a branch which extends from theTalaporid;e to
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