336 KOCTiin.K. 



Subfamily MOMIX^. 



Proboscis fully developed or aborted ; palpi short, upturned or 

 porrect ; f roiis smooth ; eyes large, round, clothed with hair ; an- 

 tennae ])ectinate, ciliated, or laminate ; thorax clothed with scales 

 and hair or hair only, the pro- meso- and metathorax sometimes 

 crested ; legs usually clothed with rather long hair and the tai-si 

 with small tufts at the joints, the tibiae not spined ; abdomen 

 usually with hairy crests, in Epica^isis entirely clothed with woolly 

 hair and Avith immense anal tuft, in Elydnodes without crests. 

 Fore wing usually triangular, in Elydnodes with the tennen angled 

 at middle ; vein 1 a weak, not anastomosing with \h ; Ic absent ; 



Fig. 80. — Larva of Moma ludifica. \. 



veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole, in Calocasia vein 10 

 arising from 7, ^S, 9 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 1 a and 1 h 

 present ; 1 c absent ; the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 

 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the eeU near base only. 



The MomincB form a very natural and well-characterized sub- 

 family, very homologous in appearance except for Ejn'causis and 

 Elydnodes. 



The Larvce have all the pro-legs fully developed, the warts -with 

 loose tufts of hairs; in Moma^ Diphthera, and Calocasia there are 

 dorsal pencils of hair, but in Charadra and Elceodes there are no 

 luiu' pencils. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Abilonien entirely clotlied with long woolly hair and 



with immense anal tuft Ei'iCAusis, p. 337. 



13. Abdomen not entirely clrtiied with long woolly hair 

 and witl> the anal tuft normal. 

 o. Ahdomcn with dorsal series of crests. 



«'. Pro-, meso-, and metathorax with divided crests . BAXnvRA, p. 382. 

 //'. Tro- and metathorax without crests, the meta- 

 thorax with divided crett TnisvLoiDEs, p.339. 



