CATALOGUE 



OF 



LEPIDOPTEEA PHALiENJl. 



Family ARCTIAD^. 



Proboscis usually well developed, sometimes aborted ; palpi usually 

 short, sometimes loug and porrect or upturned ; auteunaj ciliated or 

 bipectinate ; tibi;e with the spurs usually short or moderate. Fore 

 wing with vein 1 a forming a fork with 1 5, 1 c absent ; 5 from 

 below angle of discocellnlars or coincident with 4. Hind wing with 

 veins 1 a & h present, Ic absent ; 5 from below angle of discocellulars 

 or coincident with 4; 8 coincident with the upper margin of cell 

 to near or to well beyond middle, sometimes to beyond upper angle ; 

 frenulum present ; retiuaculam almost always bar-shaped. 



A family of iloths of small to large size derived from the 

 Noctuida3, from which they may be distinguished by vein 8 of the 

 hind wing being coincident with the upper margin of the cell from 

 base, instead of arising free and then more or less strongly anasto- 

 mosing with the cell. In some species of Automolis vein 8 is 

 coincident with the cell to beyond the upper angle in the males, 

 whilst in some specimens of various species of Eucereoti, near the 

 point of origin of the family Syntomidce, vein 8 is sometimes absent, 

 or partially aborted, or replaced by two or three spurs between the 

 cell and costa. 



The family is divided into three subfamilies, the NoUnce, Litho- 

 siance, and Arctiance ; the first two have the ocelli absent, the Nolince 

 having tufts of raised scales in the cell of fore wing at base, middle, 

 and extremity, whilst in the lowest subfamily, the Arctiance, the 

 ocelli are present, as in their ancestors among the Noctuidce. 



The larva) of the Arctiadce. have a similar arrangement of the 

 warts and tufts of hair to that described and figured in the ISyntomidce., 

 Vol. I. p. 22 ; but in the subfamily NoUiich the 1st pair of prologs 

 on somite 6 are absent : they usually feed exposed, forming a cocoon 



VOL. II. B 



