CATALOGUE 



LEPIDOPTERA PHALJ^N.^. 



Family NOCTUIDyE. 



Proboscis usually Avell developed, rarely aborted ; palpi usually 

 upturned, sometimes very long, with the 3rd joint erect, recurved 

 over head, or porrect, and naked, dilated at extremity, hairy or 

 with tuft of hair on inner side, often short and porrect or in some 

 groups very long and rostriform ; maxillary palpi rudimentary ex- 

 cept in the Hi/blceince; frons rounded, in some genera with rounded 

 or conical prominence or corneous processes of various forms, 

 especially in the faunas of more arid countries ; eyes usually naked, 

 in some groups overhung by long cilia, or hairy ; ocelli present ; 

 autennse of male rarely nearly simple, usually ciliated, often serrate 

 or pectinated, rarely in the female also, very rarely with uniseriate 

 branches ; tegula3 in Cucullia produced into a hood ; pro- and 

 metathorax often with crests or the thorax with ridge-like dorsal 

 crest ; tibia? almost always with the spurs Avell developed, in some 

 groups spined ; pectus, legs, and a,bdomen of male often with ex- 

 pansible tufts of scent-hairs in folds ; abdomen often with dorsal 

 series of crests ; wings usually broad and well developed, sometimes 

 narrow and elongate, the termen often angled or scalloped. The 

 neuration is almost uniform in the great majority of genera: fore 

 wing with vein 1 a slight and not anastomosing with 16; 1 c 

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

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

 form the areole, 7 from the areole ; 11 free from the cell. Hind 

 wing with veins 1 a and h developed ; 1 c absent ; 2 from middle 



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