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The Long-Beaks (BB Palpi not as long)

BB. Palpi not as long as the thorax.

C. With only four well-developed legs, the front legs being unused, much shorter than the others, and folded on the breast like a tippet; radius of the fore wings five-branched. To determine the number of branches of radius, count the two cubital and the three medial branches first; the branches left between vein M₁ and the subcosta belonging to radius (Fig. 30). 1 For a table of the families of skippers see page 257. D. With some of the veins of the fore wings greatly swollen at the base (Fig. 36). (Agapetida), p. 180.