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b. Head with a distinct tubercle near the base of each antenna. 



Eupartlienos Grote. 

 bb. Head without a distinct tubercle at the base of each antenna, 

 c. Thorax and appendages with deep indeterminate transverse 

 striations; median caudal spines of cremaster somewhat en- 

 larged near the tip ; metathoracic legs never present. 



PJieocyma Hubner. 



cc. Thorax and appendages approximately smooth ; median caudal 



spines of cremaster never enlarged near the tip ; metathoracic 



legs always apparent caudad of the maxillae. 



d. Cremaster with spines practically all of the same size, no two 



being larger and longer than the others. .Caenurgia Walker. 



dd. Cremaster with two spines larger and longer than the others. 



Zale Hubner. 



The following species were examined : 

 Eupartlienos nubilis Hubner 

 Pheocyma lunifera Hubner 



Caenurgia erechtea Cramer, crassiuscula Haworth 

 Zale calycanthata Smith and Abbot, lunata Drury 

 Catocala illecta Walker, unijuga Walker, briseis Edwards, verecunda 

 Hiilst, aholibah Strecker, ilia Cramer, innubens Guenee, neo- 

 gama, Smith and Abbot, pacta Linnaeus, sponsa Linnaeus 

 Eunetis blandula Hulst, ultronia Hubner, grynea Cramer 



Subfamily Sarrothripinae 



This group is readily distinguished because it has neither cre- 

 master nor setae at the caudal end of the body, which is probably 

 due to the fact that its members are found in thick cocoons. The 

 dorsal surface of the body is very irregularly rugose with spinous 

 elevations, and there is a distinct row of spines along the caudal mar- 

 gin of the fifth abdominal segment extending from the rugose area on 

 the dorsum around nearly to the meson of the ventral surface. A 

 few spines are present in a similar position on the fourth abdominal 

 segment. The epicranial suture is always present, the labial palpi are 

 visible for their entire length, and only a small portion of the pro- 

 thoracic femur is exposed, or it may be entirely concealed. The 

 maxillae never reach the caudal margin of the wings, being about 

 seven eighths of their length, with the mesothoracic legs meeting 

 just caudad of them. The antennae always reach to the caudal mar- 

 gin of the wings, while the mesothoracic legs do not, but the latter 

 are slightly longer than the maxillae. Both prothoracic and meso- 

 thoracic legs extend cephalad to the eye-piece, the mesothoracic legs 

 extending between the sculptured eye-piece and the antenna. 



