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antenna to tongue. Cremaster present and sometimes with some hooked 

 setas on venter of ninth segment of abdomen as well. " 



The family is probably the largest of the Tineid series, and is especially 

 developed in the tropics. Most of the subordinate groups are wide- 

 spread, but the forms with a pecten are of Old-World affinity, and the 

 Strobisia type is South American, like the Stenoma group of Xyloric- 

 tidas, which they resemble. 



Key to the genera 

 Moth 

 1. Fore wing with M x stalked with R 5 beyond origin of R^ which is distinct 

 (fig. 170). 



2. Pecten present 29. Sitotroga. 



2. No pecten. 



3. Fore wing with a vein absent. 



4. R x absent, the first developed radial arising from cell close to end. 



32. Agnippe. 

 4. A dorsal vein absent; Rj from cell two-thirds way out. (figs. 171, 173). 



5. Hind wing with R or Mj lost 34. Helice. 



5. Hind wing with R and M ± connate 33. Stereomita. 



3. Fore wing with all veins preserved. 



4. Hind wings with M 3 and Cu t widely separate (fig. ±70). 



5. Second joint of palpus with long spreading hairs or a triangular tuft. 



31. Ptycerata. 

 5. Second joint of palpus rough-scaled; expanse over 12 mm. 



30. Metzneria. 

 5. Second joint of palpus not very rough; expanse under 12 mm. 



19. Glauce. 

 4. Hind wings with M 3 and CUj connate, stalked, or barely separate (fig. 

 169). 

 5. Hind wings with Mj absent (R-stem apparently simple) (fig. 162). 



28. Evippe. 

 5. Hind wings with M ± present, attached to R-stem. 



6. Fore wings with 1YL, and CUj stalked 27. Trypanisma. 



6. M 3 not stalked with Cu^ 



7. Second joint of palpus with a long, expansible tuft on inner 



side .25. Eucordylea. 



7. No such tuft. 

 8. R and M t of hind wing approximate at base .... 24. Recurvaria. 

 8. R and M ± stalked 26. Epithectis. 



1. Fore wings with M x arising from cell, or more shortly stalked than R, (or 

 with R 4 absent). 

 2. CUj and Cu 2 stalked (fig. 157). 



3. Second joint of palpus with a long triangular tuft below. 



9. Dichomeris, 11. Anorthosia. 

 3. Second joint of palpus without such a tuft; sometimes broad-scaled on 

 both sides. 



4. Hind wings narrower than fore wings 12. Strobisia. 



4. Hind wings broader than fore wings. 



5. Fore wings with 11 veins (R 3 united with R 4 as shown in fig. 161). 



10. Glyphidocera. 

 5. Fore wings with all veins present; Rt and R 5 stalked. 



6. R 3 shortly stalked with R 4+E 8Yo. Brachmia. 



6. R 3 free 8. Trichotaphe. 



