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The
three genera included here share general similarity of facies,
particularly the presence and disposition of blocks of black on the forewing.
The valves of the male genitalia are very much simpler than in tribes treated
previously, usually with a process at the ventral margin from the apex of the sacculus and, more rarely, one costally
or distally. The juxta is typical of the core catocalines, as is the aedeagus vesica. In the female, the ostium
is associated more with the eighth segment than the seventh, though the sternite of the latter is vestigial. The larva is of the ophiusine type (p. 22), and a pupal
bloom has been noted in a species of Avatha Walker, but not
in Serrodes or Anereuthina Hübner. Host plants in
Serrodes and Avatha are
predominantly from the Sapindaceae, but Anereuthina larvae are palm-feeders.
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