Smith, Synopsis ot Noctuids. 3.-- 
: vestiture consisting of flattened hair; thorax and ab- 
domen untufted, the latter exceeding secondaries. Exyra. 
vestiture hairy; tongue strong: thorax quadrate, with 
anterior crest and posterior tuft;.abdomen untufted: primaries large. 
*Gortyna. 
——- rounded, swollen: palpi porrect, exceeding head by one-half 
its length: wings angulated. *Butoreuma. 
B. Chipeus without projection. 
a. Palpi not exceeding front. 
§ VESTITURE HAIRY. 
+ Tongue weak, membraneous. 
Vestiture Jong, thin, divergent: head retracted: thorax untufted. 
Euthisanotia,. 
— short and thick: thorax tufted behind collar: abdomen 
smooth; closely scaled; exceeding secondaries; wings large, apices of 
primaries acuminate. Choephora. 
+7 Tongue strong; corneus. 
Body stout; abdomen slender; vestiture long and loose: head much 
retracted; primaries short, narrow, sub-equal. Tapinostola. 
Entirely robust; hair flattened: thorax with a small anterior and 
divided posterior tuft: head more free: primaries elongate, broad- 
ening outwardly. Macronoctua. 
§§ VESTITURE HAIRY, WITH FLATTENED SCALES INTERMIXED. 
Clypeus globose; palpi heavily fringed beneath; primaries short, 
broad, triangular: body slight. . Annaphila. 
Head retracted: body stout, depressed; vestiture flattened: primaries 
elongate, narrow, only slightly widening outwardly. Caradrina.* 
Head larger; thorax convex, tufted: abdomen with prominent dorsal 
tufts: primaries broader. Raphia.”° 
b. Palpi exceeding the head by twice its length or more. 
§ OCELLI WANTING. 
Palpi divaricate: primaries short, broad, triangular; apex acute. *Hexeris.~° 
—— ———. oblicue; wings large, frail, geometriform. *Phalenostola.” 
§§ OCELLI PRESENT. 
+ Primaries divided nearly to the middle. 
Palpi divaricate, sickle shaped. . Tortricodes. 
+? Primaries angulated. — 
Palpi recurved, with a long brush of hair at tip, reaching backward 
to base of thorax: wings narrow. Palthis. 
