. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. In several genera the males often have secondary sexual tufts of hair or fans of scales on thorax, legs, or abdomen, and in the genus Eriopyga patches of androconia on the wings of very diverse forms ; in Cirphis the underside is sometimes clothed with silvery metallic scales. The species of the genus Monima all appear in the early Larva smooth, the warts with 1 hair; all the prolegs present, the 12th somite with more or less developed dorsal hump. In the ffarmodia-grou^ of Polia the larvae all feed on CaryophyUacece
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. In several genera the males often have secondary sexual tufts of hair or fans of scales on thorax, legs, or abdomen, and in the genus Eriopyga patches of androconia on the wings of very diverse forms ; in Cirphis the underside is sometimes clothed with silvery metallic scales. The species of the genus Monima all appear in the early Larva smooth, the warts with 1 hair; all the prolegs present, the 12th somite with more or less developed dorsal hump. In the ffarmodia-grou^ of Polia the larvae all feed on CaryophyUacece, Silene, Lychnis, Dicmtlws, etc., mostly in the seed-pods, and the females have the ovipositor long and exserted for penetrating the tissues of the plants ; in Leucania and allied genera the larvae all feed on Graminece. Key to the Genera. A. Eyes small, reniform. a. Thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales ... Anakta, p. 37. h. Thorax clothed with hair only Panolis, p. 461. B. Eyes large, rounded. a. Fore tibia with terminal claw. a^. Frons with rounded prominence with corneous plate below it Thargeua, p. 220. b^. Frons without prominence. a-. Abdomen with dorsal series of crests Barathea, p. 11. b-. Abdomen with dorsal crest on 1st segment only Hypobarathka, p. 221. b. Fore tibia without terminal claw. a'. Fore tarsus with long curved claw-like spines on outer side of 1st joint. a^. Fore tibia with spine on outer side near extremity Conisania, p. 472. b^. Fore tibia without spine. a^. Frons with truncate conical prominence with vertical ridge at middle and corneous plate below it Pronotestha, p. 224. P. Frons with truncate conical prominence with corneous plate below it. a^. Proboscis aborted, minute Aglossestra, p. 225. /)'. Proboscis fully developed. a\ Frontal prominence occupying lower part of frons Epia, p. 226. 6'. Frontal prominence reniform, in middle of frons Cardepia, p. 234. c'. Frons with rounded prominence with- cor- neous plate below it TiucitocLEA, p. 2
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