CATALOGUE 



LEPIDOPTERA VEkLM^M. 



Family ARCTIAD^. 



Proboscis Tisiially well developed, sometimes aborted ; palpi usually 

 short, sometimes long and porrect or upturned ; antennae ciliated or 

 bipectinate ; tibias with the spurs usually short or moderate. Eore 

 wing with vein 1 a forming a fork with Ih, Ic absent ; 5 from 

 below angle of discocellnlars or coincident with 4. Hind wing with 

 veins 1 a& b present, Ic absent ; 5 from below angle of discocellulars 

 or coincident with 4 ; 8 coincident with the upper margin of cell 

 to near or to well beyond middle, sometimes to beyond upper angle ; 

 frenulum present ; retinaculam almost always bar-shaped. 



A family of Moths of small to large size derived from the 

 Noctuidse, from which they may be distinguished by vein 8 of the 

 hind wing being coincident with the upper margin of the cell from 

 base, instead of arising free and then more or less strongly anasto- 

 mosing with the cell. In some species of Automolis vein 8 is 

 coincident with the cell to beyond the upper angle in the males, 

 whilst in some specimens of various species of Eucereon, near the 

 point of origin of the family" Syntomidce, vein 8 is sometimes absent, 

 or partially aborted, or replaced by two or three spurs between the 

 cell and costa. 



The family is divided into three subfamilies, the Nolince, Liilio- 

 siance, and ArctiancB ; the first two have the ocelli absent, the Nolinm 

 having tufts of raised scales in the cell of fore wing at base, middle, 

 and extremity, whilst in the lowest subfamily, the Arctiance, the 

 ocelli are present, as in their ancestors among the Noctuidce. 



The larvae of the Arctiadce have a similar arrangement of the 

 warts and tufts of hair to that described and figured in the Syntomidce, 

 Vol. I. p. 22 ; but in the subfamily Nollnoi the 1st pair of prolegs 

 on somite 6 are absent : they usually feed exposed, forming a cocoon 



VOL. II. B 



