14 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



It is more attached to dry places than fl. malvcc, which is often 

 found in damp as well as in dry woods; but T. tages prefers 

 dry banks and lanes, where it flies close to the ground, on 

 which it often settles. It has been found by several good 

 observers at rest with the wings folded over its back in the 

 exact position of a Noctua, and Mr. Barrett figures a specimen 

 which shows this very clearly. 



SUB-FAMILY III. PAMPHILIN^E. 

 Section A. 



ANTENN/E : Very varied, never much hooked, and usually 

 sharply pointed. In all the genera in which the tip of the 

 antennae is blunt, the epiphysis on the fore tibiae is wanting, ex- 

 cepting in one or two Australian forms. 



PALPI: Third joint usually short and inconspicuous, in some 

 few genera long and slender ; in these it is also always erect, 

 and never porrected horizontally in front ot the face. 



FORE-WINGS : Cell always less than two-thirds of length of 

 costa ; vein 5 slightly nearer to 4 than to 6, except in some 

 aberrant Australian forms, in which it is slightly nearer to 6. 

 Hind-wing never with a conspicuous tail or tooth, though fre- 

 quently more or less lobate ; vein 5 never well developed. 



Male never with a costal fold, and only comparatively sel- 

 dom with a discal stigma on the fore-wing ; frequently with 

 glandular patches and tufts of hair on the wings ; never with a 

 tuft on the hind tibiae. 



The epiphysis on the fore tibioe and the medial pair of spurs 

 on the hind tibiae are occasionally wanting. 



Confined almost entirely to the Old World. As far as is 

 known the species of this group rest with their wings raised 

 over their backs, assuming that position immediately on 

 settling. (Watson.) 



