Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
155 
Family NOTOD ONTID AE. 
General build noctuiform, seldom slender; fore wing 1 b often forming a fork 
at base, 1 c absent, vein 5 from middle or a little above middle of discocellulars ; 
hind wing with two internal veins, vein 5 from middle of discocellulars or 
absent, 8 free from base, then parallel with, or approximated to, upper median 
or connected with that vein by a bar, then obliquely to near apex. 
KEY TO THE GENERA. 
1 a. Eyes hairy ............ 2 
b. Eyes glabrous ........... 3 
2 a. Fore wing with an areole ..... Scalmicauda p.158 
b. Fore wing without an areole .... Ichthyura p. 161 
3 a. Fore wing with one or more tufts of hairs and scales on inner margin 
at middle ........... 30 
b. Fore wing without such a tuft ........ 4 
4 a. Hind legs with four spurs ......... 10 
b. Hind legs with two spurs only ........ 5 
5 a. Fore wing with an areole ....... . 6 
b. Fore wing without an areole . . ... . . 7 
6 a. Areole long, about half the distance from upper angle to apex; abdo- 
men with lateral tufts of hair ..... Amyops p.206 
b. Areole short, less than one-third the distance from upper angle to apex; 
no lateral tufts of hair on abdomen .... Gerura p. 170 
7 a. Fore wing with all veins present ........ 8 
b. Fore wing with at least one vein absent ...... 9 
8 a. Antennae bipectinated for two-thirds their length; branches in over 
six times shaft; fore and hind wing with veins 3 and 4 separate; hind 
wing with vein 5 rather weak .... Stauropus p. 194 
b. Antennae bipectinated for two-thirds of shaft, but pectination short, 
only two times shaft; hind wing with vein 5 weak; fore wing with 
veins 3 and 4 on a short stalk; hind wing with veins 3 and 4 on a 
stalk of over one-third of 3 or from a point . . Stenostaura p. 215 
c. Antennae bipectinated till the tip .... Anaphe p.232 
9 a. Fore wing with vein 8 absent; hind wing with all veins present 
Polelassothys p. 229 
b. Fore wing with veins 5 and 9 absent; hind wing with vein 5 absent 
Epanaphe p. 234 
10 a. Hind wing with vein 5 absent or very weak 1 ..... 31 
b. Hind wing with vein 5 present, at least distinct . . . . 11 
11 a. Fore wing without an areole 2 ........ 12 
b. Fore wing with an areole 3 ........ 15 
1 In Antheua dimovpha vein 5 is very weak and the proboscis is in some specimens 
practically absent, but the other characters place this species provisionally in 
Antheua. 
2 In some cases the areole is not completed by the connection between vein 10 
and the stalk of 8-9. General characters will have to decide to which group it belongs. 
In Antheua some species are very inconsistent in this character, some specimens 
of the same species having and lacking the areole. Many specimens have in such a 
case to be examined. 
3 In Chadisra and Antheua the areole may be absent in some species. 
