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Palpi short, not reaching beyond frontal tuft. phobetron. 



Head sunken.. ■■.... Alarodia! 



Head subpvominent 



Palpi longer, reaching distinctly beyond frontal tuft not to vertex. 



'Media of fore wings short-forked and open ; nrale antenn. P-t-ated o t.p. 



Vein 7 of fore wings from cell ; four spurs on huid tibise .^..Natada. 



Vein 7 stalked ; two spurs on hind tibiae Sisyrosea. 



Media of fore wings long-forked and more or less distinctly closed by a cross 

 vein ; male antenna simple towards the tip ; two spurs on hmd tibi«. 

 Interior margin of fore wings straight. 

 Fore wings with all veins present. 



Vein I o usually from the cell Parasa. 



, „ ■, Euclea. 



Vem lo stalked 



Fore wing with eleven veins (vein 8 absent). 



Exterior margin of fore wings entire Monoleuca. 



Exterior margin slightly excavate below apex Adoneta. 



Interior margin of fore wings sinuate ; excavated before anal an^^e,^^^ 



Male antennce simple. Prolimacodes. 



Vein 6 of hind wings stalked with 7 



Vein 6 of hind wings from the cell. 



Palpi reaching vertex of head. . 



'costa nearly straight ; fore wing rather square at ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



the cell r ^■L- 



Fore wing broader, more rounded ; costa ^<^^^^^jj^^^ 



Fc^fwing m;;e'po:n;ed;'cosua;;:hed, vein XO usually ^^^^k^^^^.^.^.^^ 



r , „,,, Lithacodes. 



Palni reaching above vertex ot neaa 



1% „„. ,e„l„, o.e. .»,f «>■ .o ve„« of .>=.^ ; «">^ - -— " 



tibiee 



Genus Phobetron Hilbner. 

 I8i6 Phobetron Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. 398- 

 ^ 1841 Ecnomidea WestwoOD, Nat. Lib. Exot. Moths, 183. 

 , 1855 Euryda H;.:RRicH-ScHAFFER, Ausser. Schmett. I, 7- 

 18=;=;. Nemeta Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. IV, 968. 

 1864. Phohetnun Packard, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Ill, 34°. 

 1802. Phobdnmi Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. I, 535- ^^ ^_ ^^ ^ ^ . TT 66 

 1894. Phobetron Neumoege. AND Dyar, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. II, 66. 

 Type, pithecium Abb. & Smith. 



Species: pithecium Abb. & Sm. (New York slug caterpillars^ 



ti^ii^^^^u^^^^^r^Tti;^^ 



ous that from miaginal characters the lower memoer. o th J-P^ S?- 



( Natada and Snyrosea ) seem almost strictly referable to the preceding g P ^ P 



hairy Eucleids). 



