. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. AGEOTINiE. Subfamily AGROTINiE. Proboscis usually well developed, sometimes aborted; palpi usually short, upturned or porrect; frous rounded, often with rounded prominence, sometimes with corneous plate below it, or with corneous processes of various forms ; eyes naked, sometimes overhung by cilia, in Ala hairy ; antennae usually ciliated, often pectinate or serrate; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, when there are usually crests on pro- and metathorax or ridge-like dorsal crest, or clothed with hair only ; tibia; m
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. AGEOTINiE. Subfamily AGROTINiE. Proboscis usually well developed, sometimes aborted; palpi usually short, upturned or porrect; frous rounded, often with rounded prominence, sometimes with corneous plate below it, or with corneous processes of various forms ; eyes naked, sometimes overhung by cilia, in Ala hairy ; antennae usually ciliated, often pectinate or serrate; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, when there are usually crests on pro- and metathorax or ridge-like dorsal crest, or clothed with hair only ; tibia; more or less spinose, all the tibiiB being sometimes strongly spined, in others the spines are reduced to one between mid and hind spurs of hind tibife ; abdomen rarely with dorsal crests. Wings usually broad, some- times rather narrow, the termen rounded or crenulate: fore wing with vein 1 a weak, not anastomosing with 1 6 ; 1 c absent; 2 from middle of cell; 3 and 5 from near lower angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 from the areole ; 11 free, from the cell. Hind wing with veins 1 a and?> present; 1 c absent; 3, 4 from lower angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 8 arising free, then bent down and touching cell, then again diverging, in Tliyreion suoivi connected with cell at middle by an oblique bar after Fig. 2.—Larva of Agrotis deraiota. ]. (From Hmpsu. 111. Het, is. pi. 176. fig. 4.) Larva smooth, the warts with 1 hair ; all the prologs present; the 12th somite with dorsal hump. In the Heliothis group the larvae usually feed on flowers ; in the Agrotis group they often hide in the earth by day and emerge to feed at night: the perfect insects of the former often flying in the sunshine, whilst the latter are purely Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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