220 NOCTUlDyE. 



Subfamily SARROTHRIPINtE. 



Proboscis almost alwaj-s fully developed, miuute in Triorbis and 

 Tscadia; palpi usually long and upturned or with the 2nd joint 

 oblique and fringed with hair above, the 3rd usually long and some- 

 times dilated at extremity, often porrect; frons smooth except in 

 FoUothripa, Triorhis, and CalatJmsa ; eyes large, naked, Avithout ciliu 

 from their margins ; antennae usually ciliated, often somewhat 

 laminate and almost simple, rarely pectinated ; head and thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, usually without crests or with 

 depressed crest on metathorax, sometimes with spreading crests on 

 pro- and metathorax, in OcJdhophora the metathorax with very large 

 oblique crest; tibiae without spines or claws, the fore tibiae often 

 fringed on both sides with long hair; abdomen usually with one or two 

 crests at base, rarely with a dorsal series of crests. Fore wing usually 

 rather narrow, the cosfa arched at base and the margins subparallel, 

 sometimes more triangular, in CEdicraspis with the costa slightly 

 lobed just beyond middle, the termen usually evenly curved, some- 

 times oblique or excised towards tornus ; vein \a weak and not 

 anastomosing with 1 6 ; 1 c absent ; 2 from middle of cell ; 3 and 

 5 from near lower angle, in Apotliripa veins 3, 4 stalked ; 6 from 

 or from below upper angle ; 9 usually from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form an areole which is often very long and narrow or both 9 

 and 10 anastomosing with 7, 8 to form a minute areole, or the areole 

 obsolete and veins 7, 8, 9 or 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, in Sarrothrijpus 

 the areole is often absent by vein 7 having become disconnected, 

 this occurring as a varietal form in many of the species ; vein 1 1 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 1 a and 1 6 present, 1 c absent ; 

 3, 4 from cell or often strongly stalked or coincident ; vein 5 fully 

 developed, from or from near lower angle of cell, often stalked 

 with 3 ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 usually anastomosing with the cell 

 to middle, sometimes near base only. 



The fore wing of male has a strong bar-shaped retinaculum 

 usually more or less curled round the frenulum at its tip, and there 

 are, except in Eligma, slight tufts of scales in middle of cell and on 

 discocellulars, sometimes also on the ante-, postmedial, and sub- 

 terminal line^. 



Fig. 71. — Larva of Selepa celt is. 



The larvae have all the prologs present and are sparsely covered 

 with hair ; they form a boat-shaped cocoon of silk, often with 

 angular projection on dorsum in front, sometimes coA'ered with faeces. 



