SARROTHRIPItfjE. 365 



Subfamily SARBOTHRIPIN^E. 



Moths of small or moderate size ; the fore wing with the costa 

 and inner margin arched near base, then of nearly even width 

 throughout, and almost always with raised buttons of scales in 

 the cell or raised lines on the wings. The palpi either porrect and 

 rostriform or upturned ; legs with the tarsal joints short. 



Larvce with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, sparsely clothed 

 with hair in the known species. 



The subfamily is closely allied to the Wolince, and almost at the 

 bottom of the Noctuid scale ; the retinaculum is often bar-shaped 

 in the male ; and vein 8 of the hind wing often anastomoses with 

 7 to near middle of cell. 



Key to the Genera, 



A. Palpi obliquely porrect and slender; pro- 



boscis rudimentary 1. Triorbis, p. 366. 



B. Proboscis fully developed. 



a. Palpi with the 3rd joint short and por- 



rect 3. Ariola, p. 367. 



b. Palpi with the 3rd joint long and por- 



rect. 

 a'. Head extremely small ; fore wing with 



vein 1 a long and curved ........ 6. Hybl^a, p. 371. 



b'. Head normal. 



a 2 . Fore wing with the areole short. 

 a s . Fore wing with tufts of raised 



scales on the disk 5. Plotheia, p. 368. 



b 3 . Fore wing without tufts of raised 



scales on the disk 4. Nolasena, p. 368. 



b 2 . Fore wiug with the areole long . . 7. Arachnoonatha, 



c. Palpi with the third joint upturned. [p. 373. 

 a'. Fore wing with an areole. 



a 2 . Hind wing with vein 5 present. 

 a 3 . Thorax with no erect tuft be- 

 hind the collar. 

 a 4 . Fore wing with the apex 



rounded, the areole short . . 12. Clettharina, p. 379. 



6 4 . Fore wing with the apex 



rectangular. 



a 5 . Abdomen with dorsal tufts. 



a 6 . Abdomen usually long ; 



the antennae long and 



ciliated in male 8. Labanda, p. 374. 



b G . Abdomen and antennae of 

 normal length, the latter 



bipectinated in male . . 9. Chlumetia, p. 376. 

 b'°. Abdomen without dorsal 

 tufts. 

 a 6 . Fore wing with the areole 

 short. 

 a 1 . Fore wing short and 



broad 10. Barasa, p. 376. 



b 1 . Fore wing long and 



narrow 2. Gadirtha, p. 367. 



