CATALOGUE 



OF 



LEPIDOPTERA PHALiEM. 



Family NOCTUID.E. 



Subfamily ERASTRIAN.E. 



Proboscis usually fully developed, sometimes aborted or absent : 

 palpi usually upturned, sometimes oblique or porrect, when the 

 2nd joint is usually fringed with hair above towards extremity ; 

 irons often with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it 

 or with corneous processes of various forms ; eyes naked, without 

 bristly cilia from their margins, almost always large and round ; 

 antennae usually ciliated, sometimes serrate or pectinated, often 

 laminate and almost simple ; thorax usually clothed almost entirely 

 -with scales, rarely with hair and liair-like scales or with hair only, 

 usually without crests; tibiae without spines, the fore tibia rarely 

 with a 'terminal claw ; abdomen usually without crests, sometimes 

 with dorsal series of crests or with crest at base only ; size nearly 

 always small or moderate, the build often slender; wings usually 

 short and broad with the termen evenly curved, sometimes long 

 and narrow, the termen of fore wing often excised below apex or 

 towards tornus. Fore wing with vein 1 a weak, not anastomosing 

 with 1 6, 1 c absent : 2 from middle of cell ; ','> and 5 from ue <v 

 lower angle, or 3 from well before angle, or rarely 3, I stalked; 

 (5 from or from below upper angle ; 9 usually from in anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole, sometimes 9 and LO anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole, or rarely 11 anastomosing with S and in to form 

 the areole, or 7, 8, 9, 10 and rarely 11 stalked, or 7. v . 9 stalked, 

 10 from cell, or 7 from cell and S, '.). In and rarely II stalked; 

 9 and rarely 8 also absent, or 10 rarely anastomosing with 11. 

 Hind wing with veins \a and L6 present, I C absenl ; 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell or often stalked ; 5 typically nearly fully developed 

 from well below middle of dlSCOCellularS, but in several genera 



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