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6 4 . Fore v ing increasing in width 

 to outer margin, usually 

 narrow and long ; hind 

 wing generally more or 



less hyaline at base 6. Stictopterince. 



b s . Pore wing without raised tufts 



or lines of scales, increasing 



in width to outer margin*, 



and not hyaline at base. 



a i . Palpi slender, with the 2nd 



joint' not thickened ; the 



scaling quite smooth 3. Palindiincr. 



b i . Palpi with the 2nd joint 

 more or less thickened ; 

 the scaling usually hairy . . 8. Quadrifince. 

 b' . Palpi sickle-shaped, the 2nd joint 



being curved 9. Focillince. 



B. Moths of slender build, with the legs and 

 especially the tarsal joints long and 

 slender 10. Deltoidince. 





Subfamily TRIPINLE. 



Pore wing with vein 6 from the upper angle of cell or rarely 

 from above it ; vein 8 given off from 7 and anastomosing with 9, 

 which is given off from 10 to form the areole ' 



also anastomoses with 9. Hind 



with 



or rarely vein 7 

 veins 3 and 4 from 



Fig. 105. — Larva of Agrotis c-nigrum. \. 

 (From Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix, pi. 176, fig. 4.) 



end of cell or rarely on a short stalk ; 5 from centre of discocellu- 

 lars, rarely slightly curved at origin, very slender and obsolescent, 

 the outer margin not being produced at its termination % ; veins 6 

 and 7 from angle of cell or rarely stalked. 



The following markings on the fore wing are very characteristic 

 of the Noctuidce and especially of the subfamily Trifince : an orbi- 

 cular or rounded stigma in the cell, a reniform or kidney-shaped 

 stigma just beyond it, and a claviform or elongate streak below 

 the cell. 



Larvae with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, not semilooping. 



* Except Isoeura, Dinumma, and Cattyna. 

 t Except in Arboricornus. 



\ In Acutipenna vein 5 is more strongly developed and from near the lower 

 angle of cell. 



