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and agreeing in character with the second, with which it is often 

 elbowed. Spiral tongue always well developed, though slight and 

 short. Body usually thin, always glossy. Thorax short, rounded, 

 slightly convex, covered with scales or a few hairs slightly adherent; 

 the neck never elevated. Pterygoids slight, never ornamented with 

 raised hairs. Abdomen long, slightly consistent, slightly velvety, not 

 having, in the female, either projecting oviduct or anal tuft passing 

 beyond its length. Legs long, not velvety; tibiae shorter than femur, 

 often dilated, and furnished with hair disposed in brushes or tufts ; 

 the middle legs furnished with one pair and the posterior with two 

 pairs of spurs, always long and robust, particularly the inner ones. 

 Whigs proportionally large and thin, slightly squamose, rarely den- 

 tate, never raised in repose or folded round the body ; superior wings 

 never covering each other or entirely hiding the inferior ones, often 

 marked with the same lines or spots as the Noctua3 ; inferior wings 

 well developed, slightly or not at all folded, having rarely colours or 

 marks distinct from the upper ones. 



Nervulation. In the upper wings the subcostal furnishes from 

 five to six nervules; areola generally existing, always unique, placed 

 above the cell, of which it is independent, and always grouping 

 around it ; all the superior nervules inequally disposed, the median 

 quadrifid and the submedian simple. Loiver wings : the costal 

 always joined to the subcostal just after its origin, the last only bifid 

 and .the median quadrifid; only two nervures free, the internal and 

 the submedian. 



Fam. 1. Hypenid^e, H.-S. 



Gen. 1. Madopa, St., Dup., Gn., H.-S. 



Colobochyla, St., III., & Cat. B. M. 



Hypena, Tr. 



Crambus, Haw. , 



1. Salicalis, W. V. (Type). 

 Gen. 2. Hypena, Schr. 



Crambus, Haw. 



Hyblaea, Fab. 



1. Proboscidalis, Lin. (Type). 



2. Rostralis, Lin. 

 Vittatus, Haw. Var. 

 Palpalis, Fab. Var. 



3. Crassalis, Fab. 

 Teniculalis, Hub. Var. 

 Achatalis, Hub. Var. 



Gen. 3. Hypenodes, Gum., H. D. 

 Cledeobia, St., H.-S. 



