Palpi with terminal joint nearly equal to second; flattened, sub-cla- 
vate: vestiture long and coarse; without tuftings: primaries narrow, 
with very oblique outer margin and obtusely rounded hind angles. 
Litoprosopus. 
Thorax with a large saddle shaped. posterior tuft; abdomen with dor- 
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sal tufts: wings moderate; primaries often with a tooth at hind an- 
le: ornamentation often metallic. Plusia,’° 
C. Palpi not reaching to, or bul shghily exceeding front. 
§ Tongue weak. 
Vhorax quadrate; very heavy: vestiture coarse, somewhat diver- 
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gent; primaries widening outwardly; hind margin half as long as 
costal; apex acute. Feralia.” 
-———— rounded; rather slighter: vestiture long and fine: abdomen 
considerably exceeding secondaries: primaries elongate, narrow; apex 
acute. Arsilonche.” 
Tongue strong and corneus. 
Clypeus with a coyneus projection: thorax quadrate: primaries nar- 
row, subequal; outer margin oblique. Aporophyla. 
Like Ferata in all points except /ongue Arthrochlora. 
Collar rounded; projecting hood-like upward; primaries sub-lan- 
ceqlate. | Cucullia.” 
Thorax depressed, quadrate; collar acutely projecting at middJe and 7” 
and sides; excavate between: vestiture coarse: primaries narrow, sub- 
equal. Dryobota.”” 
with divided anterior and posterior tuft; abdomen obsoletely 
tufted: primaries with outer margin oblique: Q ovipositor extruded. 
Cleoceris. 
© ovipositor not extruded: vestiture hairy, coarse: thorax with an 
anterior divided tuft; abdomen with small tuftings: primaries nar- 
row, but slightly widening outwardly: outer margin oblique. Polia. 
+ Primaries elongate, narrow, equal. 
Vestiture elongate, heavy, somewhat divergent: outer margin of pri- 
maries rounded: ornamentation sub-obsolete; color yellowish white. 
pike Ommatostola, 
‘Thorax with a raised anterior divided tuft: front with a double tuft. 
Xylina,” 
—— flattened: produced at middle and sides: excavate between; 
front with close fine wooly vestiture. Caleocampa.” 
+} Primaries wider but equal. 
Outer margin nearly straight, body depressed: vestiture close and 
smooth; thorax with a slightly elevated anterior crest: abdomen 
more or less flattened. Orrhodia. 
