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antenna to tongue. Cremaster present and sometimes with some hooked 

 setae on venter of ninth segment of abdomen as well. 



The family is probably the largest of the Tineid series, and is especially 

 developed in the tropics. Most of the subordinate groups are wide- 

 spread, but the forms with a pecten are of Old-World affinity, and the 

 Strobisia type is South American, like the Stenoma group of Xyloric- 

 tidae, which they resemble. 



Key to the genera 



Moth 



1. Fore wing with Mj stalked with R B beyond origin of R 4 , which is distinct 

 (fig. 170). 



2. Pecten present 29. Sitotroga. 



2. No pecten. 



3. Fore wing with a vein absent. 



4. RJ absent, the first developed radial arising from cell close to end. 



32. Agnippe. 

 4. A dorsal vein absent; Rj from cell two-thirds way out. (figs. 171, 173). 



5. Hind wing with R or Mj lost 34. Helice. 



5. Hind wing with R and M! connate 33. Stereomita. 



3. Fore wing with all veins preserved. 

 4. Hind wings with M 3 and Cu t widely separate (fig. 170). 



5. Second joint of palpus with long spreading hairs or a triangular tuft. 



31. Ptycerata. 

 5. Second joint of palpus rough-scaled; expanse over 12 mm. 



30. Metzneria. 

 5. Second joint of palpus not very rough; expanse under 12 mm. 



19. Glauce. 

 4. Hind wings with M 3 and CUj connate, stalked, or barely separate (fig. 



169). 

 5. Hind wings with Mj absent (R-stem apparently simple) (fig. 162). 



28. Evippe. 

 5. Hind wings with M t present, attached to R-stem. 



6. Fore wings with M 3 and Cu stalked 27. Trypanisma. 



6. MS not stalked with CUj. 

 7. Second joint of palpus with a long, expansible tuft on inner 



side 25. Eucordylea. 



7. No such tuft. 



8. R and M t of hind wing approximate at base 24. Recurvaria. 



8. R and Mj stalked 26. Epithectis. 



1. Fore wings with M x arising from cell, or more shortly stalked than R (or 



with R 4 absent). 

 2. CUi and Cu 2 stalked (fig. 157). 



3. Second joint of palpus with a long triangular tuft below. 



9. Dichomeris, 11. Anorthosia. 



3. Second joint of palpus without such a tuft; sometimes broad-scaled on 

 both sides. 



4. Hind wings narrower than fore wings 12. Strobisia. 



4. Hind wings broader than fore wings. 



5. Fore wings with 11 veins (R 8 united with R, as shown in fig. 161). 



10. Glyphidocera. 

 5. Fore wings with all veins present; "8+ and R B stalked. 



6. R, shortly stalked with R^ s 8^. Brachmia. 



6. R. free 8. Trichotaphe. 



