240 N0CTUID.E. 



Prodenia subterminalis, Wlk. ix. p. 196 (1856). 

 Prodenia glaucistr iy a, Wlk. ix. 197 (1856). 

 Prodenia declinata, Wlk. xi. 1*26 (1857). 



Mamestra albisparsa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 186 (1862). 

 Prodenia evanescens, Butl. Mem. Nat, Ac. Sci. Wash., Hep. Eclipse Exp. 

 p. 94 (1884). • 



8 . Head and thorax whitish mostly suffused with rufous ; palpi 

 with hlackish marks at sides of joints ; irons with brown bar above ; 

 teguhe with some brown at base, slight medial line and brown 

 tips ; mid tibise streaked with black ; abdomen ochreous tinged 

 with rufous. Fore wing ochreous mostly suffused with brown, the 

 medial area below the cell ochreous tinged with rufous, the terminal 

 area rufous, the median nervure and bases of veins 2, 3, 4 streaked 

 with white ; subbasal line double and filled in with white towards 

 costa, acutely angled outwards below costa and ending at vein 1 ; 

 an oblique whitish line from subcostal nervure before antemedial 

 line to vein 1, double below the cell; some silvery grey suffusion 

 before antemedial line, which is double filled in with whitish, 

 acutely angled outwards below costa, excurved below cell and 

 retracted to inner margin ; claviform elongate, slightly defined by 

 black scales ; orbicular narrow, oblique, white defined at sides by 

 blackish and with faint rufous centre, a whitish bar on its outer 

 edge and some whitish below it above base of vein 2 ; reniform 

 whitish slightly defined by black and with some brown in centre, 

 its upper extremity produced to a long acute point ; traces of an 

 oblique irregular medial line from lower extremity of reniform to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely waved and 

 slightly incurved at discal and submedian folds, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; an oblique diffused violaceous grey fascia from 

 apex to postmedial line, then defining its outer edge ; a white 

 subterminal line from the fascia to submedian fold, excurved at 

 middle ; a fine w r hite line before termen slightly defined by black 

 on outer side ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia 

 brown intersected with white and with fine white line at base 

 followed by a brown line. Hind wing white, the apex slightly 

 tinged with brown ; a fine brown terminal line from apex to vein 2; 

 the underside with the costa slightly irrorated with brown except 

 towards base, a terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. 



$ . Fore wing with the violaceous grey fascia from apex less 

 strongly contrasting; the inner medial area not ochreous. 



Ab. I. evanescens. An albinistic form, very much paler ; fore wing 

 with all the markings obsolescent. —Caroline Is. and Marquesas. 



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