238 LEPIDOPTERA. 



moths of India, Sir George Hampson arrived at the conclu- 

 sion, which I think a correct one, that the genus Sarrothripa 

 is intimately connected with a considerable assemblage of 

 species of Noctuidm, which are distinguished by having 

 groups or lines of raised scales on their fore wings — Triorbis, 

 Plothcia, Hyblaza, Labanda, Argyrothripa, and others — and 

 that its proper position is in that great group. 



Further study of species recently received, some of them 

 from South and East Africa, evidently allied to Earias and 

 Halias — genera of which we possess three species which also 

 were formerly placed, with Sarrothripa, in close proximity to 

 the Tortriccs, and more recently among the Bombycina — has, 

 I believe, convinced the same author that the affinities of these 

 also are more closely with the Noctuidm, and that he may 

 find it necessary to place the whole family Nyctceolidce of his 

 work — to which Halias and Earias belong — near to the 

 •Sarrothripince, and that they must be removed from among 

 the Arctiidce as at present placed by him. In this also, 

 after seeing the allied forms, I am disposed to concur, and 

 to indicate this position, as more suitable for those three 

 species in the family Chloephoridce, than where I have placed 

 them (in Vol. II. pages 174 to 182) in this work. 



Family 4. GONOPTERID51. 



Palpi with the second joint straight ; abdomen longer than 

 the hind wings, stout, smoothly scaled ; fore wings increasing 

 in width to the outer margin ; vein 5 of the hind wings fully 

 and strongly developed, yet arising from the cross-bar near to 

 vein k 



Genus L GONOPTERA. 



Antennas sometimes pectinated, almost naked ; palpi short, 

 porrected ; eyes naked ; front lashes dense, curled over ; back 



