PRODENIA. -'47 



White Nile (Dunn), 1 2; Br. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 

 1 <S , Eb Urru (Betton), 1 d, Kikuyu (Grawshay). 1 $ , Taveta 

 (liogers), 1 J ; Uganda, Ruwenzori (Legge cj - Wollaston), 1 $ •; 

 Mashoxaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 2 ; Natal, Malvern (Mar- 

 shall),! $ , Maritzburg, 1 d , Durban (Gooch, Leigh), 1 d, 4 2 ; 

 Eodriguez (Gulliver), 2 2; Mauritius (Beke), 1 cT ; Persian Gulf, 

 Eao (Camming), 1 d ; Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 $; Centr. 

 China, Icbang (Pratt), Id, 1 $>, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 $; 

 Formosa (Dickson, Hobson, Seebohm), 2 d , 2 2 ; Punjab, Kulu, 

 Sultanpur (6r. Young), 1 tf , Kasauli (Stvinhoe), 2 d , 2 J , Dharm- 

 sala (Hocking), 3 <J, 3 5, Allahabad, I J, Manpuri, 1 ^ (Hear- 

 say), 1 5 type subterminalis, 1 J type ylaucistriga ; Xepal 

 (Hodgson), 1 J; Sikhtm, 1 $; Bombay, 1 j , Bandra (Jayaker), 

 1 c? , Eatnagiri (Jayaker), 1 9 » Canara ( TT'(o-<i), 2 J ; Madras, 

 Nilgiris (Hampson), 3 J , Coinibatore ( Walhouse), 1 J; Travaxcore, 

 Permad (Mrs. Imray), 2 d; Ceylon (Templeion), 1 $; Burma, 

 Moulrneiu (Clerk), 1 J, 1 5 tvp e destinata, Mandalay (Bingham), 

 1 c?, 1 2 : Singapore (Ridley), 5 J , 2 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak, type 

 albisparsa in Mus. Oxon., Mt. Marapok, 1 2; JAYx(Hor$field),6 d , 



3 $ type ciligera ; Christmas I. (^ncZreifes), 2 5 ; Cocos Keeling I. 

 ( Wood-Jones), Id, 1 2; New Guinea, Mt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 ,5, 

 1 2 5 Queensland, Moreton Bay (Diggles), 2 d , Brisbane (Turner), 

 Id; N. S. Wales (Daniel, Raynor), Yd, 1 $; Fiji (Mathew), 

 1 cf,l 5; Gilbert Is. ( Woodford), 2 2 ; Caroline Is. (Holden), 



4 2 type evanescens : Marshall Is. (Mathew), 2 d , 3 2 ; Navigators 

 Is., 1 tf; Tahiti (Mathew), 1 d; Society Is. (J. J. Walker), 3 2 ; 

 Marquesas (J. J. Walker), 4 d '> Sandwich Is. (Perkins), 1 $>• 

 #*p. 30-44 mi Him. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii.pl. 146. f. 1 b. 



Pale violet-brown with subdorsal series of narrow yellow spots 

 with black lunules above them ; lateral series of purplish black 

 spots with white dot iu centre ; a sublateral white line. Food- 

 plant : Lantana. 



3863. Prodenia latifascia. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 18.) 



Prodenia latifascia, Wlk. ix. 195 (1S56). 



Prodenia variolosa, Wlk. xi. 722 (1857) ; D nice, Biol. Centr. -Am., Het. i. 



p. 269. 

 Prodenia cosmioides, Wlk. xv. 1678 (1858). 

 Prodenia commelina, Druce, Biol. Centr. -Am., Het. i. p. 268 (part.), nee 



Smith & Abbot. 



d . Head aud thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; palpi with 

 blackish marks at sides of 2nd and 3rd joints ; tegulse with slight- 

 brown medial line and some rufous at tips ; tibife with some black 

 points, the tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous suffused 

 with rufous. Fore wing ochreous suffused w ith rufous, the basal 

 area with some whitish suffusion, the antemedial area with some 

 greyish fuscous suffusion, the area beyond postmedial line bluish 

 white with red-brown patch on costa before subterminal liue aud 



