ARCADES A. 1 65 



GENUS ARGADESA. 



Argadesa, Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xi. p. 74 (18S1). 



" Fore-wing in male and female with the exterior margin 

 oblique, and scalloped throughout its length ; palpi shorter, 

 and the third joint slender " {Afoore). The typical species is, 

 however, more easily recognised by the hind-wings, which are 

 bordered with black to the anal angle (the incisions being 

 yellow), and marked with an oval black spot. 



ARGADESA MATERNA. 

 {Plalc CXLI., Fig. I.) 



Noctua materna, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i (2), p 840, no. 117 



(1767); Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 13, fig. 4 (1773) ; 



Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 174, fig. B (1777); iii. pi. 267, 



fig. E (1780). 

 Noctua hybrida, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 593, no. 11 (1775). 

 Ophideres wa/^r/w, Boisduval, Faune Madag. p. 100(1833); 



Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 113 (1852); 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1221, no. 9 



(1857); Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 561 



(1894). 

 Triphcena materna, Westwood in Jardine's Nat. Lib. Exot. 



Moths, p. 201, pi. 25, fig. 2 (1841). 

 Argadesa ffiaferna, Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xi. p. 74, 



pi. 12, figs 4, 4 a-d (transf.), pi. xiv. figs. 3, 3 a (1881) ; 



id. Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p 133, pi. 161, fig. 2 (18S5). 



This Moth has a range extending through India and Ceylon 

 as far as Burma, and including Java and the Andaman Islands. 

 It expands from two inches and a half to three inches and 

 three-quarters. 



