CATALOGUE 



OF 



LEPIDOPTERA PHALiENiE. 



Family NOCTUID^E. 



Subfamily HADENIN^. 



Proboscis usually well-developed, sometimes aborted ; palpi 

 usually short, upturned or porrect; frons often with rounded 

 prominence with corneous plate below it, or with corneous processes 

 of various forms ; eyes hairy, sometimes overhung by long cilia ; 

 antennae usually ciliated, often pectinated or serrate ; thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales when there are usually crests on the pro- and 

 metathorax or a ridge-like dorsal crest, or clothed with hair only ; 

 tibiae without spines, the fore tibia rarely with terminal spine ; the 

 proximal joints of fore tarsi sometimes with curved claw-like 

 spines ; abdobien usually with series of dorsal crests or one crest at 

 base. Wings usually broad, the termen rounded or crenulate, 

 rarely slightly angled at middle ; fore wing with vein 1 a weak, 

 not anastomosing with 1 6, 1 c absent ; 2 from middle of cell ; 3 

 and 5 from near lower angle ; t) from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, in Erana with 7, 8, 9 

 stalked ; 10 from cell. Hind wing with veins 1 a & 5 present, 

 1 c absent ; 3, 4 from lower angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from or 

 from just below middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or 

 shortly stalked ; 8 arising free, then bent down and touching the 

 cell, then again diverging. 



VOL. V. B 



