C A T A I. O G U E 



OF 



LEPIDOPTERA PHAL.EN.E. 



Family NOCTUIU.^. 



Subfamily CUCULLIANi*]. 



Proboscis usually well-developed, sometimes aborted or absent ; 

 palpi usually short, upturned or porrect, the 3rd joint sometimes 

 long and dilated at cxtreu\ity, in Mantholciica rostriform ; frons 

 sometimes with rounded prominence with corneous jdate below it, 

 or with corneous processes of various forms ; eyes naked, overhung 

 by more or less dcveloi)ed bristly cilia from their margins, the eyes 

 usually large and round, sometimes small and renii'orm ; antennte 

 usually ciliated, sometimes serrate or pectinated, more rarely 

 laminated and almost simple ; liead and thorax clothed with hair 

 and scales when there are usually crests on the pro- and meta- 

 thorax or a ridge-like dorsal crest, or clothed with hair only, the 

 tegul.'e sometimes ])roduced dorsally into a ridge, or in Cucullia and 

 allies produced bcliind into a more or less developed liood over the 

 thorax ; tibiie without spines, tlie fore tibia sometimes with terminal 

 claws ; the proximal joints of fore tarsi sometimes with a series of 

 curved claw-like spines ; abdomen usually with a series of dorsal 

 crests or one crest at base. Wings usually rather broad, but often 

 long and narrow, the termen rounded or crenulate, rarely slightly 

 angled at middle ; fore wing with vein 1 a weak, not anastomosing 

 with vein 1 6, 1 c absent ; 2 from middle of cell ; J3 and o from near 

 lower angle ; G from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areolo ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins Ift 

 and b pi'esent, 1 c absent ; 3, 4 from lower angle of coll ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from or from just below middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from 



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