may) 
D. Palpi moderate; exceeding front, but not reaching base of antenne. 
I. VESTITURE SCALY. 
Primaries lanceolate: secondaries unusually narrow: robust; abdo- 
men exceeding secondaries by % its length. Phyprosopus. ” ; 
elongate, narrow, crambiform: secondaries disproportionate- 
ly large. Crambodes. 
Pyralidiform: primaries narrow; apex acute, outer margin slightly, 
excavate beneath; ,j\ with a large pellucid impression in discal cell: 
secondaries rounded, exceeded by the slenderabdomen.  Pteraetholix. 
§ Thorax and abdomen untufted. 
Form robust; size small; primaries rather short, narrow; widened 
outwardly; secondaries rounded: markings consisting of black marks 
and dashes on a yellow or reddish: ground. Agrophila,* 
slighter: primaries short, broad, with very convex costal mar- 
ein: fringes short. Nolophana. 
— slight: wings proportionately larger; primaries as before, but 
fringes twice as long. Xanthoptera. 
— robust: primaries elongate, widening outwardly: ornament- 
ation, metalic black or brown, on a white ground. Tarache,” 
——- moderate: primaries with depressed costal, obliquely round- 
ed outer, and rather short inner margin: accessory cell wanting. 
Thalpochares. 
: head closely applied to thorax, which is rather short 
and convex; abdomen cylindric, subequal; wings rather long; pro- 
portionate; outer margin of primaries somewhat excavated near hind 
angle. Microcoelia, 
slight; thorax convex; abdomen depressed: primaries elong- 
ate, equal; with confused lines and spots. *Monodes. 
stout: palpi divergent: third joint short, buried in the vest- 
iture of second; tongue moderate: thorax short: primaries with acute 
apex and a tooth at hind angle: secondaries small. - *Hemiceras. 
: thorax quadrate, convex: collar and shoulder tippets 
elevated: abdomen filiform; primaries lanceolate. Stictoptera. 
moderate: body slender; abdomen filiform conic; terminat- 
ing in an acute point: wings with large fringes; primaries produced 
at apex; secondaries small. *Panula. 
§§ Abdomen tufted. 
Thorax with upright scaly vestiture: abdomen with prominent tufts; 
primaries long, strongly widening outwardly, apex acute; outer mar- 
gin oblique: secondaries small, exceeded by abdomen. Marasmalus. 
