220 NOCTUIDA, 
Subfamily SARROTHRIPIN &. 
Proboscis almost always fully developed, minute in 7’riorbis and 
Iscadia; palpi usually long and upturned or with the 2nd joint 
oblique and fringed with hair above, the 3rd usually long and some- 
times dilated at extremity, often porrect; frons smooth except in 
Poliothripa, Triorbis, and Calathusa ; eyes large, naked, without cilia 
from their margins; antenne usually ciliated, often somewhat 
Jaminate and almost simple, rarely pectinated ; head and thorax 
clothed almost entirely with scales, usually without crests or with 
depressed crest on metathorax, sometimes with spreading crests on 
pro- and metathorax, in Ochthophora the metathorax with very large 
oblique crest; tibiee without spines or claws, the fore tibie often 
fringed on both sides with long hair; abdomen usually with one or two 
crests at base, rarely with a dorsal series of crests. Fore wing usually 
rather narrow, the costa arched at base and the margins subparallel, 
sometimes more triangular, in @dicraspis with the costa slightly 
lobed just beyond middle, the termen usually evenly curved, some- 
times oblique or excised towards tornus; vein 1 @ weak and not 
anastomosing with 16; 1c¢ absent; 2 from middle of cell; 3 and 
5 from near lower angle, in Apothripa veins 3, 4 stalked; 6 from 
or from below upper angle; 9 usually from 10 anastomosing with 
8 to form an areole which is often very long and narrow or both 9 
and 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form a minute areole, or the areole 
obsolete and veins 7, 8, 9 or 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, in Sarrothripus 
the areole is often absent by vein 7 having become disconnected, 
this occurring as a varietal form in many of the species; vein 11 
from cell. Hind wing with veins 1 a and 1) present, 1 ¢ absent ; 
3, 4 from cell or often strongly stalked or coincident ; vein 5 fully 
developed, from or from near lower angle of ceil, often stalked 
with 3; 6,7 from upper angle; 8 usually anastomosing with the cell 
to middle, sometimes near base only. 
The fore wing of male has a strong bar-shaped retinaculum 
usually more or legs curled round the frenulum at its tip, and there 
are, except in Hligma, slight tufts of scales in middle of cell and on 
discocellulars, sometimes also on the ante-, postmedial, and sub- 
terminal lines, 
Fie, 71.—Larva of Selepa celtis. 1. 
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The larvee have all the prolegs present and are sparsely covered 
with hair; they form a boat-shaped cocoon of silk, often with 
angular projection on dorsum in front, sometimes covered with fices. 
