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: with an acute anterior tuft; abdomen conic with divergent 
vestiture. z *Ammaconia.” 
Primaries moderate; subequal: Aaditus of Orthosia. *Metalepsis. 
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Il. TIBIA NOT SPINULATED. 
I. ANTERIOR ARMED AT TIP.” 
§ Tongue weak and short. 
Palpi not reaching front: head almost buried in thoracic vestiture, 
which is long, thin and divergent; primaries widening outwardly 
with sinuate inner, and oblique outer margin. Copipanolis. 
Vestiture more smooth: primaries short; narrow: secondaries small; 
exceeded by abdomen. Hutolype. 
8§ Zongue moderate or strong. 
Vestiture hairy; coarse, short and divergent: beneath, very heavily 
clothed with long wooly hair; primaries narrow, elongate; with acute 
apex and very oblique outer margin. Valeria.” 
Tibia clothed with long Gense hair; anterior with a thi¢kened pro- 
cess terminating in a blunt spine; vestiture consisting of flattened 
hair. | Euros. 
Palpi exceeding front: vestiture with flattened scales intermixed: ({' 
ovipositor extruded: wings moderate, Oncocnemis. 
2. ANTERIOR TIBIA UNARMED. 
A. Palpi exceeding head by more than its own length, 
Hypena like: anterior tibia of © sometimes with a brush of hair: 
primaries large, apex acute; outer margin excavated near tip, round- 
ed at middle. Bomolocha,” 
Form more robust; palpi shorter, oblique; vestiture coarse and shag- 
gy; wings broader: primaries with costal margin excavate. Macrohypena. 
Palpi horizontal; broad; convex without, concave at inner side; ter- 
minal joint obsolete: primaries with acute apex, sinuate outer mar- 
gin, a tooth at hind angle, and a rounded lappet like projection at 
middle of inner margin. Calpe. 
L. Palpi porrect; reaching to or exceeding base of antenne, 
§ Primaries angulated. 
Palpi with terminal joint long and flattened; vestiture hairy: wings 
large; primaries deeply excavate to vein four, and strongly notched 
or toothed to hind angle. Scoliopteryx. 
$$ Primaries not angulated: 
Form stout; vestiture wooly: head very small: thorax convex: ab- 
domen conic; wings broad; primaries with depressed and sinuate 
costal, oblique outer and rather short inner margin. Litocala. 
