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PRODENIA LITTORALIS (Plate 146, Fig. 1, \n, $ q, \h, larva). 

 Hadena littoralis, Boisduval, Faun. Eat. Madaj;. Lcp. p. 91, pi. 13, fig. 8 (1834), g. 

 Neuria retina, Freyer, IJeitr. Schmett, v. p. 161, pi. 478, lig. 2, 3 (1846), J?; II. Sclia;ff. Fur. 



Schmott. ii. p. 292, pi. 29, f. 144-5, cj ?. 

 Prodenia retina, Giienee, Noct. i. p. 163; Walker, Catal. Lcp. Hut. U. M. ix. p. 192. 

 Prodenia ciligera, Guen. id. p. 164 (1852), $ g. 

 Prodenia testaceoides, Guen. id. p. 165, pi. 6, lig. 7, g . 

 Prodenia glaucistriija, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 197 (1856), (^. 

 Prodenia subterminalis, Walker, id. p. 196, ? . 

 Prodenia declinata, Walker, id. xi. p.' 723, $ . 



Male : forewing purplish greyish-brown, the veins from the base to the disc 

 lined with jDurplish-white ; along the costa are some short white oblique streaks with 

 black borders ; a white line extends from the base below the cell and curves upward 

 to the subcostal vein, beyond which is a transverse antemedial angulated white line, 

 the lower end of - which is bent inward; within the cell is a prominent large out- 

 wardly oblique purplish-white streaked orbicular mark, the end of which is suffusedly 

 continued below the cell ; reniform mark large, purplish-white lined and with brown 

 centre ; across the disc is a zigzag lunular white line ; all the lines and marks having 

 blackish borders : from the apex across the outer discal area is an oblique purplish- 

 grey fascia, which is interruptedly traversed by black streaks between the veins ; 

 alonsr the marginal border are two whitish lunular lines and a blackish denticulated 

 outer line ; the area between the medial and discal transverse lines is of a pale 

 ochreous-brown : hindwiug purplish opalescent-white, apical border brownish, the 

 veins lined with pale brown. Female : forewiug purplish ochreous-bx'own, with less 

 distinct markings as in male, and all of a pale purplish ochreous-brown ; below the 

 orbicular mark is a small sagittate black mark. 



Expanse 1| to If inch. 



Larva pale violet-brown, with a subdorsal row of narrow yellow spots bordered 

 above by black lunules ; a lateral row of violet-black spots centred by a white dot, 

 below which is a sublateral white-dotted line. Pupa pale reddish, the head olivaceous. 



" Feeds on Lantana, &c." (Z'r. Tlivmites.) 



PRODENIA NUBES. 



Spodoptera nubes, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 155 (1852), J. 



Spodoptera jilium, Guen. id. p. 155, ?. 



Prodenia infect a, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. [). 196 (1856). 



Prodenia insignata, Walker, id. ix. p. 197. 



Agrotis transducta. Walker, id. x. p. 344 (1856), ?. 



Laphjrjma squalida, Walker, id. xxxii. p. 652 (1865), $ . 



Prodenia venustula, Walker, id. xxxii. p. 654, g . 



Agrotis submarginalis. Walker, id. xxxii. p. 699, 9 . 



Prodenia peiinunda, Walker, id. xi. p. 723 (1857), ?. 



Male : f orewing violaceous greyish-brown ; with a transverse grey-bordered black 



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