CATALOGUE 



LEPIDOPTERA PHALiENiE. 



Family NOCTUID.E. 



Subfamily EUTELIANyE. 



Proboscis usually fully developed, rarely aborted or absent ; palpi 

 upturned, the 3rd joint usually rather long ; frons smooth, usually 

 with a tuft of hair above ; eyes large and naked, without bristly 

 cilia from their margins ; antennsB usually pectinated in male on 

 basal half, sometimes ciliated or almost simple ; thorax clothed 

 with hair and scales or with hair only, the teguhe sometimes pro- 

 duced to a hood or dorsal ridge ; tibias without spines, usually 

 moderately fringed with hair, sometimes with large tufts of scales 

 and hair on both tibiae and tarsi ; abdomen with or without dorsal 

 crests, usually with lateral tufts of hair and more or less developed 

 ])aired anal tufts or sometimes a long tubular tuft. Wings usually 

 triangular, sometimes very long and narrow, in repose mora or 

 less strongly folded at the discal fold and hanging downwards ; 

 fore wing with vein la weak, not anastomosing with Id; ic 

 absent ; 2 from middle of cell ; 3 and 5 from near lower angle : 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole, which is sometimes minute or in aberrant specimens entirely 

 aborted ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins ] a and 1 b present ; 

 1 c absent ; 3, 4 from lower angle of cell, rarely stalked ; 5 fully 

 developed, more or less approximated to the lower angle of cell ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle, or rarely stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only ; frenulum of female single. 



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