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2nd joint black at sides except at tips ; frons with Blight lateral 

 black bars ; antenna? blackish: tegulae with medial blackish line ; 

 pectus and legs whitisb, the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 whitish slightly tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous suffused 

 with rufous and slightly irroratcd with black : antemedial line very 

 indistinct, double tilled in with whitish, oblique, waved ; orbicular 

 defined by black at. sides, ol>lii|ue quadrate, conjoined at lower 

 extremity to the reniform, which has a blackish centre and pale 

 annulus with black mark between its upper part and orbicular and 

 slightly defined by fuscous on outer side ; traces of an oblique line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, double, filled in with whitish at costa and below r vein 2, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, angled inwards at discal 

 fold and incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line whitish slightly defined by fuscous on inner 

 side, more prominently at middle and with black streaks before it 



Fig. 63. — Spodoptera pecten, $ . \. 



in the interspaces between veins 7 and 2, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved and minutely waved at middle and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold ; the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; a ter- 

 minal series of double rather triangular black spots : cilia whitish 

 tinged with rufous and mixed with fuscous. Hind wing white, the 

 veins on terminal area tinged with brown, the costa towards apex 

 and termen to vein 2 with fuscous ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with fuscous, a terminal series of black points from 

 apex to vein 2. 



2 . Fore wing more uniform brown, with the lines less pro- 

 minent and not filled in with whitish, the reniform filled in with 

 fuscous instead of black, the subterminal line slightly defined by 

 fuscous. 



Hab. Corea, Gensan (Leech), I $; Loo-choo Is. (Pryer), 1 g; 

 Formosa (Hobson), 2 tf , 2 2 type erica; Sikhim (Dudgeon), 2 J, 



1 2- Assam, Nagas, type t pectinata in Coll. Rothschild ; Bengal, 

 Calcutta, 1 J ; Burma, Bhamo, 1 2 type uniformis ; Perak, Coping 

 (Kmistler),! <3 ; Singapore (Ridley), 8 3, 10 g; Borneo, .Sarawak 

 (Wallace, Bartlett), 2 J , Sandakan (Pryer), 1 §; Labuan (Everett), 



2 J; Java (Horzfield), 5^,1 2 type. Exp. 1^8-34 millim. 

 Larva on " Bukoot." 



