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10. Prodenia lUtoralis, Bdv. 



Prodenia lUtoralis, Boisd., Faun. Mad. Maur. p. 91, t. 13. f. 8 (1833) ; Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. 



t. 146. if. 1 a-b (larva) ; Hampson, Moths India, ii. p. 348, f. 139; Saalm., Lep. Madag. 



p. 2G7 (1891). 

 Hadena retina, Guenee, Maill. Reun., L^p. p. 35 (1863) . 



Cliagos. — Five examples : one from Salomon Atoll, two from He Yeye (Peros 

 Banhos), one from lie du Coin (Peros Banlios) on 25 June, and one bred from a larva 

 found on " Pougette" in Diego Garcia on 23 July. The larva was noted as olive-brown 

 in colour, with a large yellow ocellus on meta- and mesothoracic segments. 



Seychelles. — One female collected by Mr. J. A. de Gaye. 



Distribution. — Porto Rico ; Crete ; Asia Minor ; Madeira ; throughout Africa 

 St. Helena ; Ascension I. ; Podriguez ; Mauritius ; Bourbon ; Madagascar ; Seychelles 

 throughout India and Ceylon; Chagos ; Cocos- Keeling I.; Sumatra; Christmas I. 

 Java ; Celebes ; Philippines ; Aru Is. ; Amboina ; Australia ; Viti ; Marshall Is. 



11. Ferigea capensis, Gn. 



Apamea capensis, Guenee, Noct. i. p. 213. 



Caradrina conducta, Wlk., Cat. x. p. 296. 



Euplexia conducta, Hampson, Moths Ind. ii. p. 211. 



Perigea conducta, Joannis, Ann. S. E. France, 1894, p. 432. 



Psrigea centralis, Moore (uec Wlk.), Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 28, t. 147. fi. 2, 2 a (larva). 



Perigea meleagris, Saalm., Lep. Madag. p. 271, f. 228 (1891). 



Perigea capensis, Hampson, Cat. Phal. vii. p. 332, t. 116. f. 20 (1908). 



Seychelles. — One very worn example from Cascade Estate, Mahe (800 feet), on 

 18 September, 1905. 



Distribution. — Throughout Africa ; St. Helena ; Mauritius ; Madagascar ; Seychelles 

 (Mahe); Sokotra; Aden; throughout India; Burma; Assam; W., C, and S.E. China; 

 Philippines ; Borneo ; Formosa ; Ceylon ; An damans ; Perak ; Singapore ; Java ; 

 Br. New Guinea; Solomon Is. ; Marshall Is. ; Fiji; Queensland. 



12. Chasmina sericea, Hmpsn. 



Leocgma sericea, Hampson, 111. Het. ix. p. 92, t. 161. f. 7 ; Moths India, ii. p. 289, f. 158. 

 ? Leocyma vestce, Joannis (uec Guen.), Ann. S. E. France, 1894, p. 433. 



Seychelles. — Five specimens : one female from Mr. de Gaye's collection, taken in 

 October in Mahe ; one female, Mahe (Diipont) ; one male, two females, Praslin, November 

 1905. 



The presence of the single male specimen enables me to identify this species as sericea. 

 I have no doubt that the examples recorded by M. de Joannis as vesta were all females, 

 in which sex vestce is indistinsruishable from sericea. 



Distribution. — Seychelles (Mahe, Praslin) ; Ceylon ; Maldives ; Rangoon ; Cocos- 

 Keeling Is.; Christmas I.; Formosa; New Caledonia; Funafuti. It is noteworthy 

 that this species is essentially the insular representative of its genus. 



