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its plan, thcic Ix-inii: li"ir median vetius. Uii a IVcsh comparisDii oi Evphanessa 

 with Euro])eaii f'xani|)les oi' Nudaria, I.fiee no reason to doubt the clear sub- 

 iiiinilv relations ol' the two yeneni. 



In these characlers, then, viz, the smaller occiput and epicranium; tiie 

 long(!r and larg<!r clypeus, in pr()|K)rtion to the two otlier pieces; in the vena- 

 lion, lhert> Ix'ing Init three median veins; in the longer thorax, with mon; 

 oblique flanks, and in the genital armature, as well as less essential features, 

 the imago Phahenids differ from the BoiiihycidcB. 



From the Pyralides, especially the Deltoids, the Phalagiiids differ as 

 regards the more external characters, /. c, in the shorter palpi, particularly the 

 second joint, and in fhe fore-legs being simple, without th(; tufts and pencils 

 of hairs which adorn the legs of the Deltoids; also, in the sha[)e of l)oth pairs 

 of wings, as well as in tlse want of the long jirojecting scales of the vertex 

 seen in the Deltoids, and in tlu^ shorter front of the head. 



In 11k' nioic essential fealures, such as the form of the pieces of the head, 

 and the venation, the Phahenids dilfer from the Deltoids in tlie same way as 

 they do from tlie Xoctuids. 



Lama — The Ijody is unusually long and slender, cylindrical, sometimes 

 slightly flattened; there l)eiiig, besides the three pairs of thoracic legs, usu- 

 ally two, rarely three or four, pairs of al)dominal legs. The head is usually 

 not (juile so w ide as the body, but sometimes larger and wider, and is, as a 

 general rule, smooth, but sometimes angular, or the epicranium is i)rolonged 

 on each side into a lai'ge tubercle. The alulominal segments are sometimes 

 (in the higher genera) variously ornamented with tubercles; sometimes, as in 

 Neiaatoamqui, tbrming long, curved filaments. The supra-anal plate is large, 

 triangular. 'Vhv terminal feet are often prolonged ])osteriorly at their base 

 into spines; and there is a ipedian spine projecting between the pedal spines. 

 The larvai difler from those of the Noetuids and Pyralids in the smaller num- 

 ber of feet and the looping gait, so tliat, except in a very few instances, where 

 certain Noctukkc are semiloopers, need they be conlbunded with the larvse 

 of those liunilies. 



They either spin a slight, thin cocoon anH)ng leaves ; or are free, attached 

 to twigs, or are subterranean, remaining loose under the surfoce of fhe soil, 

 or forming a rude earthen coeooM. 



I'lipa. — As a rule, the pupa is rather thick a little in front of the middle 

 of the Itody, thence tapering rapidly to a point, the posterior half being con- 



