DELTOIDIN®, al 
3. Differs from decisa in being ochreous; a black speck in cell 
and two spots at end of it; the oblique band broader; the sub- 
marginal line more prominent. 
2. Browner and with a purplish tinge ; fore wing with a small 
ring-spot at end of cell. 
Had, Sikhim; Khasis. Hap. 48 millim. 
Subfamily DELTOIDIN 4. 
Palpi either long, slender, and sickle-shaped, the 2nd joint being 
eurved in front of head, or porrect, fringed with hair above and 
usually long, a sharp frontal tuft being present. Legs with the 
tibiz and especially the tarsal jomts long and slender. Wings 
with the neuration varying greatly as compared with the other 
groups of Noctwide; hind wing with vein 5 almost always fully 
developed. 
Larve usually semiloopers, with the first or first two pairs of 
abdominal prolegs rudimentary. 
Key to the Genera. 
A. Palpi long and slender, the 2nd joint curved 
upwards in front of head. 
a. Hind wing with vein 5 from close to lower 
angle of cell. 
a’. Fore wing with veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. 
a’, Palpi very long, the 2nd and 3rd 
joints tufted; fore wing of male 
with vein 5 absent, 1 curving up- 
wards and anastomosing with 2; 
hind wing with vein 8 short ...... 5. HETEROMALA, p.39. 
6?. Palpi of moderate length ........., 1. Ityreats, p. 34. 
6'. Fore wing with veins 8, 9, 10 stalked... 8. ALELIMMaA, p. 47. 
ce’. Fore wing with veins 8,9 stalked .... 2. LirHosropsis, p. 34. 
d'. Fore wing with veins 8 and 9 anas- 
tomosing to form an areole. 
a’, Hind wing with the cell of normal 
length. 
a®, Fore wing with vein 10 given off 
beyond the areole, whichis minute. 3, SIMPLICIA, p. 35. 
6°. Fore wing with vein 10 from the 
areole *. 
a‘, Palpi with the 3rd joint not 
tufted. 
a’. Fore wing with the apex 
rounded ; vein 7 from end of 
BN CONG a's, 2csthie ls) PNT ee 6. PsEUDAGLOSSA, 
6°. Fore wing with the apex [p. 40. 
produced and acute; vein 7 
from before end of areole .. 10. BRACHARTHRUM, 
6*. Palpi with a tuft of hair on [p. 50. 
inner side of 5rd joint........ 7. BLEpPrTina, p. 41. 
6°, Hind wing with the cell short .... 4. ApRapsa, p. 36. 
* Except in the Nilgiri form of Bleptina hadenalis. 
