386 xocTUTD^i:. 



Subfamily MOMINtE. 



Proboscis fully developed or aborted ; palpi shoi-t, upturned or 

 porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round, clothed with hair ; an- 

 tennae pectinate, ciliated, or laminate ; thorax clothed with scales 

 and hair or hair only, the pro- meso- and metathorax sometimes 

 crested ; legs usually clothed with rather long hair and the tarsi 

 with small tufts at the joints, the tibige not spined ; abdomen 

 usually with hairy crests, in JEpicmisis entirely clothed with woolly 

 hair and with immense anal tuft, in ^lydnodes without crests. 

 Fore wing usually triangular, in Elydnodes with the termen angled 

 at middle ; vein 1 a weak, not anastomosing with 1 & ; 1 c absent ; 



Fig. 80. — Larva of Moma ludifica. \. 



veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, in Calocasia vein 10 

 arising from 7, 8, 9 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 1 a and 1 h 

 jDresent ; 1 c absent ; the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 

 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



The MomincB form a very natm^al and well-characterized sub- 

 family, very homologous in apj)earance except for Epiccmsis and 

 Elydnodes. 



The LarvcB have all the pro-legs full}^ developed, the warts with 

 looFe tufts of hairs ; in Moma, DiplitJiera, and Calocasia there are 

 dorsal pencils of hair, but in Gharadra and Elwodes there are no 

 hair pencils. 



Key to fdie Genera. 



A. Abdomen entirely clotlied with long woolly hair and 



with immense anal tuft Epicattsis, p. 337. C^i-Y"' 



J3. Abdomen not entirely clrthed with long woolly hair ^ 

 and with the anal tuft normal. 

 o. Abdomen with dorsal series of crests. v_«^ 

 ci^. Pro-, meso-, and metathorax with divided crests . Batiiyra, p. 382. '" *"**^'^^* 

 lA. Pro- and metathorax without crests, the meta- 

 thorax with divided crett Trisuloides, p. 339. ^r**^!^ 



