STICTOPTERIN^. 



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Subfamilj STICTOPTERINiE. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi xipturned or oblique and wihh 

 the 2nd joint fringed with hair above towards extremity, the rJrd 

 joint usually rather long and sometimes dilated at extremity ; frons 

 smooth with tuft of hair above ; eyes large and naked without 

 bristly cilia from their margins; antennte ciliated, sometimes very 

 long; thorax clothed almost entirelj' with scales, with or without 

 slight crests, the patagia sometimes with erectile triangular crest 

 on upper edge; tibiae usually moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with or without slight crests. Fore wing triangular or narrow and 

 elongate, sometimes with scale-tooth at tornus ; with small tufts of 

 raised scales in r,he cell ; vein 1 a weak, not anastomosing with 1 b ; 

 1 c 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 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 1 a and 1 h present; 

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

 developed, from or from just above angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only ; frenulum of 

 female simple. 



Larva with all the prolegs present, almost smooth, the warts 

 with single hairs ; the 12th somite slightly humped. 



Fig. 47. — Larva of Siictoptera stcbobliqua. {. 



The subfamily is a development from the JVoctuirue, from which 

 it is distinguished by the single frenulum of the female and the tufts 

 of raised scales in the cell. 



PflYLOGENY OF THE SxiCTOPTEEIN^. 



Paralopha. 



Odontodes. Stictoptera. Gi<iantoceras. 



LopJiO'pferd. l^igramma. Sadarsa, 



Nycteol\3,. 

 Stenosticttti 



Gyrtona. 



