CATALOGUE 
OF 
LEPIDOPTERA PHALANA. 
Family NOCTUID.®. 
Subfamily EUTELIAN &, 
Proboscis usually fully developed, rarely aborted or absent ; palpi 
upturned, the 3rd joint usually rather long; frons smooth, usually 
with a tuft of hair above; eyes large and naked, without bristly 
cilia from their margins; antennze usually pectinated in male on 
basal half, sometimes ciliated or almost simple; thorax clothed 
with hair and scales or with hair only, the tegulw sometimes pro- 
duced to a hood or dorsal ridge; tibiz without spines, usually 
moderately fringed with hair, sometimes with large tufts of scales 
and hair on both tibiwe and tarsi; abdomen with or without dorsal 
crests, usually with lateral tufts of hair and more or less developed 
paired anal tufts or sometimes a long tubular tuft. Wings usually 
triangular, sometimes very long and narrow, in repose mors or 
less strongly folded at the discal fold and hanging downwards ; 
fore wing with vein 1a@ weak, not anastomosing with 16; le 
absent; 2 from middle of cell; 3 and 5 from near lower angle ; 
6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 
areole, which is sometimes minute or in aberrant specimens entirely 
aborted; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins ! a and 16 present ; 
lc absent; 3, 4 from lower angle of cell, rarely stalked ; 5 fully 
developed, more or less approximated to the lower angle of cell ; 
6, 7 from upper angle, or rarely stalked; 8 anastomosing with the 
cell near base only ; frenulum of female single. 
VOL, XI. B 
