CATALOGU E 



LEPIDOPTERA PHALiENJ^. 



Family NOCTUIU^. 



Subfamily ERASTRIAN^E. 



Proboscis usually fully developed, sometimes aborted or abseut ; 

 palpi usually uptiirued, sometimes oblique or porrect, wheu the 

 2nd joint is usually fringed with hair above towards extremity ; 

 frons often with rounded prominence Avith corneous plate below it 

 or with corneous processes of various forms ; eyes naked, without 

 bristly cilia from their margins, almost always large and round ; 

 antennae usually ciliated, sometimes serrate or pectinated, often 

 laminate and almost simple ; thorax usually clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, rarely with hair and hair-like scales or with hair only, 

 usually without crests ; tibias without spines, the fore tibia rarely 

 with a terminal claw ; abdomen usually without crests, sometimes 

 with dorsal series of crests or with crest at base only ; size nearly 

 always small or moderate, the build often slender ; wings usually 

 short and broad with the termen evenly curved, sometimes long 

 and narrow, the termen of fore wing often excised below apex or 

 towards tornus. Fore wing with vein 1 a weak, not anastomosing 

 with 1 6, 1 absent : 2 from middle of cell ; 3 and 5 froin near 

 lower angle, or 3 from well before angle, or rarely 3, 4 stalked ; 

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

 with 8 to form the areole, sometimes 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole, or rarely 11 anastomosing with 8 and 10 to form 

 the areole, or 7, 8, 9, 10 and rarely 11 stalked, or 7, 8, 9 stalked, 

 10 from cell, or 7 from cell and 8, 9, 10 and rarely 11 stalked; 

 9 and rarely 8 also absent, or 10 rarely anastomosing with 11. 

 Hind wing with veins 1 a and 1 h present, 1 c absent ; 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell or often stalked ; 5 typically nearly fully developed 

 from well below middle of discocellulars, but in several genera 



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