WILLIAM T. M. FORBES 



Family 37. LACOSOMHXffi 



(Perophoridee) 



Stout, bombyx-like moths, of quite uncertain affinity. Male antennae 

 broadly pectinate, abruptly narrowing at two-thirds their length. 

 Female narrowly pectinate. Palpi and tongue rudimentary ; vestiture 

 deep and mixed. Fore wing falcate, and more or less bent at middle ; 

 with thick scaling and heavy veins; M 2 arising from middle of end 

 of cell ; R, and R ;! long stalked, and close to costal edge, separated by a 

 wide space from R 4 and R- (fig. 411), which are also stalked; M x free, 

 connate ; Cu 2 arising only halfway out on cell. Hind wing with 

 humeral angle enlarged and strengthened, bearing a minute frenulum 

 or none; Sc fused for a short distance at base with R, then abruptly 



FIGS. 411-412 LACOSOMID.E 

 411, Lacosoma chiridota, venation; 412, Cicinnus melsheimeri, seta map of larva 



and widely divergent, as in the Epiplemidse and Saturnioidea ; M 2 

 arising from middle of end of cell. Fore wing with 2d A only ; hind 

 wing with 2d A and 3d A normal, and 1st A more or less distinctly 

 indicated at margin. 



