DYAR: LARVAE OF THE HIGHER BOMBYCES. 
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(Lymantriidae), and later still wart i also. In the curious family 
Nolidae, warts i and iv are absent, apparently not by degeneration 
but by consolidation with warts ii and v respectively, as in the 
higher Microlepidoptera (see the special description to follow). 
SYNOPSIS OF THE FAMILIES OF BOMBYCIDES. 1 
Tubercles single haired, all stages; secondary setae present only in 
extremely rare instances. 
Only the normal setae present, at least above tubercle vi. 
Abdominal feet normal or the posterior pair modified. 
Notodontidae (Ptilodontidae) 2 
Pseudoipsidae 3 
Abdominal feet normal or the anterior pair or two pairs 
abortive. Noctuidae (Agrotidae) 
Agaristidae 
The three anterior pairs of abdominal feet partly or wholly 
aborted. Brephidae 
G-eometridae 
A few definite secondary setae added, rarely numerous. 
Feet normal. Dioptidae 
Feet normal or with a tendency to the disuse of the last 
pair. Thyatiridae 
Last pair of feet absent. Drepanidae (Platypterygidae) 
Tubercles converted into warts, rarely single haired by degeneration, 
and then usually multiple haired in the early stages, sometimes 
obscured by secondary hairs. 
Not more than two well developed warts above the stigmatal 
wart on the last two thoracic segments; if three, the lowest 
rudimentary. 
These two warts in line transversely. 
Abdominal feet normal. Apatelidae 
!The Thyridae have not been assigned a place from lack of material. 
2 The names in parentheses are those used by Mr. A. It. Grote in his “ Systema Lepi- 
dopterorum Hildesiae,” 1895, where they differ from those used here. 
s Family type Pseudoips quercana L. This is the Cymbidae of Kirby, but the name is 
founded on no genus included in the family and must fall. The name Nycteolinae of 
Hampson is unavailable (Moths of India, vol. 2, p. 128) since Nycteola Hiibn. Tentamen 
replaces Sarrothripus and the Nycteolinae are really a subfamily of Noctuidae (=Sar- 
rothripinae, Hampson). Nycteola H. —S. (thus preoccupied) — Zebeeba Kirby. Grote 
calls the family Pseudoipsidae, from Pseudoipes of Hubner’s Tentamen. 
