CATALOGUE 



OF 



LEPIDOPTERA PHAL^NJ). 



Subfamily ARCTIAN^. 



Proboscis more or less aborted in the typical genera Arctiay 

 Diacrisia, and allies, fully developed in most Neotropical genera, 

 and also in Utetheisa^ /Secusio, and their allies; palpi slight and 

 porrect or well developed and upturned ; ocelli present ; eyes 

 rarely hairy ; antennas pectinate or ciliate ; tibial spurs typically 

 small but often well developed, the hind tibiae with the medial 

 spurs absent in a few genera and the fore tibiae in others with 

 curved apical claw, the mid and hind tibiae rarely spined. Wings 

 usually well developed, sometimes aborted in the females of Ocno- 

 gyna etc. Fore wing with vein 1 a separate from 1 6 ; 5 from 

 near lower angle of cell or well below angle of discocellulars ; 6 

 from or from near upper angle, except in the very abnormal genus 

 Psycharium, where it is from near middle of discocellulars in both 

 wings ; areole present in many genera. Hind wing with vein 1 a 

 present ; 1 c absent ; 4 often absent ; 5 from near lower angle of 

 cell or well below angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 sometimes coincident ; 

 8 coincident with the cell from or almost from base to near middle, 

 extremity, or in Automolis and some other forms sometimes to 

 beyond angle of cell; in Thalesa, CaratJiis, Ochrodota, and some 

 species of Melese and Halisidota obsolete. 



The species of Automolis etc. which have veins 6, 7 of hind wing 

 coincident and vein 8 from or from beyond upper angle of cell can 

 be distinguished from the Syntomidce by the stalk of the coincident 

 veins 6, 7 being slightly curved towards the costa at base. 



The Agaristid genus Pseudospiris and some genera of Noctuidce 

 have acquired the Arctid character of vein 8 of the hind wing 

 becoming coincident with the cell to near middle, but in these it 



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