2 CATALOGUE OF 



or tegulae never elevated. Abdomen long, not robust, hardly- 

 pilose. Legs long, not pilose; fore tibiae much shorter than the 

 femora, often inflated and tufted; middle tibiae with two spurs; 

 hind tibiae with four spurs, which are generally long and stout. 

 Wings ample, delicate, rarely denticulated, never elevated or 

 wrapped round the body in repose; the fore pair never entirely 

 hiding the hind pair. Fore wings most often with an areolet above 

 the discal one, of which it is independent, always curved, and 

 having about it the superior veins, which are unequally located ; 

 four inferior veins; submedian vein simple. Hind wings with the 

 costal and subcostal veins united near their origin ; the first simple ; 

 the second forked. 



GueneVs arrangement, which separates this tribe from the 

 Noctuites, will probably be much modified by future observations, 

 for in the latter group several of the families are more distinct from 

 each other than some of them are from many species which that 

 author includes in the Deltoidites. 



A. Alae angulatae. -.''..- Fam. 1. Platydid^e, Guen. 



B. Alae non angulatae. 

 A. Frons prominens, acutus. Fam. 2. Hypenid^e, Herr.-Schoejf. 

 J3. Frons non prominens. - Fam. 3. HerminidjE, Duponch 





Fam. 1. PLATYDID,E. 



Palpi longi, valde ascendentes, caput superantes ; articulus 3us 

 semper distinctus, 2o brevior, saepe spatulatus. Antennae ciliatae 

 aut pubescentes, non nodosae. Pedes longi, graciles ; tibiae anticae 

 plus minusve incrassatae. Alae amplae, exteusae, concolores, lituris 

 non diversis, margine exteriore semper angulato ; anticae areola 

 rhomboidali bene determinata. 



Platydidee, Guen. Belt, et PyraL 11. 



Palpi long, much ascending, extending above the head ; third 

 joint always distinct, shorter than the second, often spatulate. 

 Antennae ciliated or pubescent, not nodose. Legs long, slender ; 

 fore tibiae more or less thickened. Wings ample, extended, alike 

 in colour and with like markings ; exterior border always angular or 

 bent. Fore wings with the areolet rhomboidal, well developed. 

 Hind wings with the independent vein distinct. 



