CYMATOPHOBIDjE. 



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Ptilopliora Icashghara, Moore, C. & S. no. 1200, is from Tur- 

 kestan. 

 Moma champa, Moore, C. & S. no. 1213, is a Noctua. 



Family CYMATOPHORID^. 



A family of moths resembling the Noctuidce in appearance. 

 Proboscis present. Antennae usually rather thickened and flattened. 

 Mid tibia with one pair of spurs, hind tibia with two pairs. Fore 

 wing with vein 1 a short and slight, not forming a fork with 1 b ; 

 1 c absent ; 5 from the centre of the discocellulars ; veins 7 and 8 

 stalked, and 9 and 10 stalked and almost or quite anastomosing 

 with 7 and 8 to form an areole. Hind wing with two internal 



Fig. 110. — Larva of Thyatira batis. }. (Prom Buckler, Larvae 

 Brit. Butt. Moths, pi. liv, fig. 2.) 



veins ; vein 5 from the centre of discocellulars, or generally from 

 below the centre ; veins 6 and 7 given off not far from the base ; 

 8 bent down and quite or almost touching 7 after the bifurcation. 

 Larva : Noctuaeforni, with five pairs of prolegs*. 



Key to the Genera. 



Fore wing with a tuft of scales at outer angle. 1. Habrosyne,p.178. 

 Fore wing with no tuft of scales at outer 



angle. 

 a'. Fore wing with vein 6 from angle of cell. 



a 2 . Fore wing short and broad 



b 2 . Fore wing long, narrow, and arched . . 



V ' . Fore wing with vein 6 from above angle of 



cell. 



a 2 . Fore wing with apex rounded; hind 



wing with outer margin rounded .... 



b 2 . Fore wing with apex acute ; hind wing 



with outer margin slightly angled. 



a 3 . Antennas thickened and flattened in 



both sexes 



i 3 . Antennae filiform and ciliated iu both 



2. Thyatira, p. 180. 

 6. Toxoides, p. 185. 



3. Gaurena, p. 181. 



4. POLYPLOCA,p.l82. 



[p. 185. 



5. Nemacerota, 



* After the Cymatophoridce would follow the Noctuidce, if the Heterocer; 

 could be arranged in a linear series. 



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