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orange, with a black oval spot near the middle of each. Along the external edges is a black margin, 

 reaching from the upper to the abdominal corners ; the upper edge being scolloped. 



Under Side. Legs, sides, thorax, and abdomen pale orange. Anterior wings entirely pale orange 

 and dusky black, without any mixture of red, &c. Posterior wings as on the upper side ; the colours 

 being less distinct. Margins of the wings entire. 



TRIPH.'ENA MATERNA. 



Plate X 11 1, fig. 4. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Nocturna. Family : Noctuidee, Stephens. 



Genus. Triph^ena, Ochs. Treit. Steph. PhalEena (Noctua), Linn. Drury. 



Triph^na Materna. Alls anticis grisescentibus aut luteis, fusco irroratis et uiuUilatis, posticis fulvis, macule 



margineque (albo pimctato) ati'is. 

 Syn. Phalsena (Noctua) Materua, Linn. Syst. Nat. 11. 840. 117. Drury, App. vol. 2, 



Noctua Materna, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. 2. p. 16. No. 27. Gmel. Linn. S. K. 2533. 117. Oliv. Enc. 



MHh. 8. 259. 39. 

 Noctua hybrida, Fabr. Ent Syst. 593. 11. 



Habitat : Bengal. 



Upper Side. Antennse setaceous. Tongue spiral. Palpi yellow, blue at the tips. Head tinged 

 with blue. Thorax olive. Abdomen yellow. Anterior wings light brown and shining ; appearing of 

 several colours according to the position they are held in. Posterior wings yellow, with a round black 

 central spot. Margins black, beginning at the middle of the anterior edges, and enchng at the abdo- 

 minal corners where the margin is narrowest; having eight small white spots thereon, placed on the 

 external edges. 



Under Side. Thorax, abdomen, and sides yellowish ash-coloured. Anterior wings yellow; tips 

 brown, and separated from the yellow by a black streak running from the lower corner to the anterior 

 edge. Posterior wings coloured as on the upper side ; the black margin being rather fainter. Margins 

 of the wings dentated. 



EREBUS FLUCTUOSUS. 



Plate .XIV. fig. 1. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Nocturna. Family : Noctuida;, Steph. 



Genus. Erebus, Latr. Tbysania, Balm. Noctua, Fabr. 



Erebus Fluctuosus. Alls fuscis, fascia communi pallida, marginibiis late nigris interne dentatis, anticis ocello 

 magno auriformi. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 1^ lin.) 



Syn. PbaljEua (Noctua) fluctuosa, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Habitat : Sierra Leone. 



Upper Side. Antennae setaceous. Head and thorax brown. Tongue spiral. Wings dark hair- 

 coloured, or russet brown ; divided into two compartments by a clay-coloured line, which beginning 

 at the anterior edges of the anterior near the midcUe, and crossing them and the posterior, meets at the 

 extremity of the body : the inner compartment being brown, the outward one clay ; which is again 

 separated by an irregular waved line, beginning at the tips and ending at the abdominal comers. All 

 the outward part is brown. Two black spots are placed on the anterior wings next the anterior edges, 

 and near the middle. 



