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Labial palpi small, pilose, scarcely exceeding the clypeus. 

 Medio-posterior nervule remote from medio-inferior. 

 Median 4-branched. Discal vein angulated, simple. Abdo- 

 men, most often spotted. ArctiidcB, 

 Median 3-branched; discal angulated, simple. F. w. apical 

 vein trifid at tip. Gen. Crocota. 



Head with ocelli. Tongue moderately long. 



J Subcostal divides exterior to the disk. 

 Costal and subcostal pedicellate or decussating at base. 

 Labial palpi ascending, stout; last joint closely scaled, 



slenderer than the middle. 



Median 3-branched, with medio-discal or disco-central. 

 F. w. always with an areole, sometimes two. Wings de- 

 flexed. Noctuidse, 

 * * MEDIAN 4-BRANCHED. COSTAL VEIN BIFID. 

 Subcostal simple, attenuated or obsolete, from a minute 



intercostal. 

 Discal with a long curve. Head with maxillary palpi. 



Pyralidse, 



IT T 1T Hind-wings with an internal vein, very 



short, or almost obsolete. 



Internal vein nearly coincident with the inner, margin. 

 Costal and subcostal pedicellate, parallel, or in contact towards 

 the base. 



Subcostal bifid; median trifid; with or without disco- 

 central. 



Wings thin, often elevated in repose. F. w. often with an 

 areole. Geometridse, 



WlNGS WITH LONG CILIA, POINTED. IMAGO SMALL. 



NEURATION SIMILAR IN FORE AND HIND-WINGS. 



Costal veins bifid or simple. 



Subcostal with 2ndy cell. F. w. with an intercostal branch 

 between a branch of the costal and the first of subcostal ; 

 second branch furcate, with four branches from the end of 

 the disk. An intermediate branch between the bifid medio- 

 posterior and the median vein. MicropteHgidae, 



