STICTOPTERIN A. 141 
Subfamily STICTOPTERIN &. 
Proboseis fully developed; palpi upturned or oblique and with 
the 2nd joint fringed with hair above towards extremity, the 3rd 
joint usually rather long and sometimes dilated at extremity ; frons 
smooth with tuft of hair above; eyes large and naked without 
bristly cilia from their margins; antenne ciliated, sometimes very 
long; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, with or without 
slight crests, the patagia sometimes with erectile triangular crest 
on upper edge; tibize usually moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 
with or without slight crests. Fore wing triangular or narrow and 
elongate, sometimes with scale-tooth at tornus ; with small tufts of 
raised scales in the cell ; vein 1 a weak, not anastomosing with 1 4; 
lc 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; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 1 a and 1%) present; 
le absent; 3,4 from lower angle of cell, rarely stalked ; 5 fully 
developed, from or from just above angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper 
angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only; frenuJum of 
female simple. 
Larva with all the prolegs present, almost smooth, the warts 
with single hairs; the 12th somite slightly humped. 
Fig. 47.—Larva of Stictoptera subobliqua. }. 
The subfamily is a development from the Voctuine, from which 
it is distinguished by the single frenulum of the female and the tufts 
of raised scales in the cell. 
PHYLOGENY OF THE SLICTOPTERIN &. 
Paralopha. 
Odontodes. Stictoptera. Gigantoceras. Nycicola. 
eae 
Lophoptera. Nigramma. Sadarsa. Stenosticta. 
Gyrtona, 
