CATALOGUE 



LEPIDOPTERA PHALiENiE. 



Family NOCTUID^. 



Subfamily CATOCALINtE. 



Proboscis full}'^ developed, except in Chelecala ; palpi usually 

 upturned, rarely porrect or oblique, in C ry psotidia the 2nd joint 

 fringed with hair above, the 3rd joint often long, sometimes dilated 

 at extremity or acuminate ; frons usually smooth, often with a 

 tuft of hair above, in Lopliotidia with a transverse ridge bare of 

 scales, and with a corneous plate below it ; eyes almost always 

 large, naked, and without bristly cilia from their margins, in 

 Euclidimera, Leucomelas, and Gonospileia the eyes are rather small 

 and elliptical; antennae usually ciliated, sometimes with bristles, 

 or serrate, pectinate or laminate, rarely with dilations at base or 

 middle of shaft : thorax usually clothed with scales and hair 

 mixed, often with hair and hair-like scales, or hair only, usually 

 ■without crests, but the pro- and metathorax sometimes crested ; 

 the mid tibiae always spined, the fore and hind tibia3 often spined, 

 the fore tibiae sometimes with claws at extremity ; the tibiae often 

 fringed with long hair, or with greatly developed tufts of hair 

 especially in the males, wliich often have the mid tibia3 dilated 

 with a fold containing a tuft of hair or ridge of scales, the mid 

 femora sometimes similarly dilated; the spurs and tarsi sometimes 

 fringed with hair, abdomen often with dorsal crests, bnt usually 

 without crests and often with ridges of rough hair on basal 

 segments, sometimes entirely clothed with woolly hair, rarely 

 dorsally flattened, Fore wing usually triangular, sometimes rather 

 long and narrow, or with the apex j)roduced or falcate, the termen 



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