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WILLIAM T. M. FORBES 



Subfamily GLAPHYRIIN^E 

 (Hoinophysidse ; Pyraustinae; Crambinac, in part) 



Head smooth (fig. 318); ocelli well developed; antennae of male not modified, 

 with a rather small smooth scape; tongue normal, scaled at base (absent in the 

 western genus Chalcoela; labial palpi moderate or rather long, the segments 

 almost equal in length, the first two broadly scaled, the third much more slender, 

 often pointed, upturned in the eastern species, porrect in Chalcoela. Maxillary 

 palpi typically as long as a segment of the labials, obliquely porrect and rough 

 scaled; rarely rudimentary. Wings usually broad and ample, coarsely scaled, 

 sometimes with metallic scaling at the margin of the hind wing, as in some 

 Nymphulinae. Fore wing with R t and R 2 free, or stalked with each other (figs. 316, 

 317), rarely united; R 3 and R 4 stalked, R^ free, divergent from R 3+4 ; rarely with 



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FIGS. 316-319. GLAPHYRIIN.*: 



316, Lipocosma fuliginosalis, venation; 317, Glaphyria glaphyralis, venation of 

 costal part of fore wing; 318, Dicymolomia, julianaUs, head; 319, D. julianalis, 

 seta map of larva (ex coll. Claassen) 



R 2 stalked with R 3+1 . 1st A lost; 3d A free, weak. Hind wing ample, with a large 

 broad cell; Sc and R strongly anastomosing; Mj connate with R; M 2 and M 3 

 closely approximate or shortly stalked; middle discocellular long and moderately 

 bent, not tubular; frenulum of female multiple. Upper side of hind wing with 

 a more or less defined fringe of long hair just below Cu, ending in a larger or 

 smaller number of spatulate hairs or scales in the fold, near or below end of 

 cell; a similar series of hairs on 2d A, also usually ending in a group of scales. 

 The spatulate hairs or scales are more or less deciduous, bul distinct in fresh 

 specimens of all species; the characteristic palpi will distinguish them from the most 

 similar Pyraustinae, the broad rounded wings from all our Nymphulinse, to which 

 they are probably most closely related. The Crambinse and the Ancylolomiinae are 

 not, in fact, close relatives, and all the species known to me may be distinguished 

 by the open cell or widely spaced R and M, of the hind wing. (Larva, fig. 319.1 



