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NOCTUID.E. 



snbracdian fold and larger spots above veins 4, 3, 2, with crimson 

 streaks between them on veins 4, 3 from the postmedial line. 

 Hind wing pure white, the costal and inner areas tinged with 

 yellow, a slight yellow terminal line ; the underside with the 

 terminal half of costa suffused with crimson. 



Hah. ? Punjab, 1 (5; Ceylon (Templeton), 1 ^ , 1 <j? ; Nicobars 

 (Rof/ers), 1 5 s Little Nicobar, 1 J; Singapore {Ridley), 1 c? , 3 $ ; 

 Philippines, Luzon, Mindanao ; Trobriand Is., Kiriwini (Meek), 

 2 d" ; New Caledonia, 1 J ; Is. 8. Wales, Sydney (Matheio, Raynor), 



7 6,7 2 • Exp. 42-52 millim. 



Larva. Semper, Schmett. Philippines, p. 51G, pi. Q, ff. 4, 5. 



Brown irrorated with black and white, the 4th somite with black 

 band ; dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish ; stigmata with white 

 spots defined by black above; a broad yellow substigmatal fascia ; 

 head and ventral surface red-brown. Food-plants: LiUacece. 10-4. 



Genus PRODENIA. 



Type. 



Trodenia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 159 (1852) androgea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax smoothly clothed almost entirely 

 ■with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with divided crest ; 

 tibiae moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on basnl 

 segments. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 typically from near angle of cell; 6 from 

 upper angle or from areole ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 



8 anatomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with veins 2 and 3 almost from a point near 

 lower angle of cell, vein 5 from just below middle of discocellulars. 



3358. Prodenia rubrifusa, n. sp. 



6 . Head and thorax bright rufous ; palpi yellowish in front and 

 at tips and with blackish marks at sides of 1st and 2nd joints ; 

 fore and mid tibiae with some black points, the tarsi with black 

 bands ; abdomen ochreous suffused with rufous. Fore wing bright 

 rufous slightly irrorated with black, some yellowish on basal area, 

 on costal area beyond antemedial line, and on postmedial inner area ; 

 subbasal line represented by a faint diffused oblique yellowish line 

 from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and double, 

 then by a slight black line angled outwards on vein 1 ; some 

 fuscous suffusion from below costa to vein 1 before the antemedial 

 line, which is indistinct, yellowish, angled outwards below costa, 

 excurvcd in submedian interspace and retracted to inner margin ; 

 orbicular represented by a quadrate yellowish patch defined by 

 black on outer side and with oblique diffused yellowish fascia 

 from its lower extremity on and above vein 2 to postmedial line ; 

 reniform obsolete, its produced upper extremity traceable and 



