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LEPIDOPTBEA. 



Division 2. HETEROCERA. 



Group 5. PYRALIDINA. 



Family 4. SERICOE-IDiE. 



Genus 5. HEDYA. 



Antennae slender, rather long; palpi short, blunt, hardly 

 thickened ; thorax slender, very faintly crested at the back ; 

 fore wings without a fold, narrow, drawn closely in at the 

 sides ; hind wings untufted. 



We have eiglit species — readily recognised — all of rather 

 small size. 



A. Fore wings white or nearly white, basal blotch con- 



spicuous, dark coloured, complete. 



B. Basal blotch nearly rounded or very bluntly angulated 



outwardly ; head brown or grey. 



C. Fore wings moderately broad, somewhat ovate. 



H. ocdlana. 



C-. Fore wings narrow. H. lariciana. 



B-. Basal blotch very oblique, its margin smoothly curved ; 



fore wings very long. S. ijmq^cranc' . 



B^. Margin of basal blotch rather sinuous, not angulated ; 



wings not long. ^. accriana. 



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