254 



xoi TuiP.r.. 



Sect. II. (Eulaphygma). Antennas of male minutely serrate and fasciculate, 



3869. Spodoptera abyssinia. 



Spodoptera abyssinia, Guen. Noet. i. p. 154 (1852). 



Spodoptera cilium; Guen. Noet. i. p. 156 (1852) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



P- 



259. 



Caradrina latebrosa, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. 1855, p. 205, pi. 2. 



f. 11 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 195. 

 Caradrina orbicularis, Wlk. x. 294 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Nat. Hist. Sokotra, 



p. 323, pi. xx. f. 26. 

 Caradrina prceterita, Wlk. x. 294 (1856). 

 Caradrina insignata, Wlk. x. 295 (1856). 

 Laphygma procedens, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). 



Agrotis infixa, Wlk. Jouirh. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 186 (1862). 

 Laphygma obliterans, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 87 (1862). 

 Spodoptera insulsa, Wlk. xxsii. 648 (1865). 

 Laphygma imperoiata, Wlk. xxxii. 651 (1865). 

 Laphygma retrahens, Wlk. Entom. v. p. 126 (1870). 



$ . Head and thorax ochreous suffused with red-brown ; palpi 

 with black bands on 2nd and 3rd joints near extremity ; frons 

 with lateral black bars ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown. 

 Fore wing greyish suffused with brown ; subbasal line represented 

 by double black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with whitish, the inner line indistinct, oblique, waved ; 

 orbicular whitish defined by black and with slight brown centre, 

 oblique elliptical, open below and connected by a streak above 

 median nervure with the reniform which is defined by black on 



Fig. 64. — Spodoptera abyssinia, <$ . }. 



inner side, its centre defined by diffused black ; an oblique dark 

 striga from costa to reniform and waved line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin, angled inwards in submedian fold ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with whitish, the outer line indistinct, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, 

 some pale points with fuscous between them beyond if on costa ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion 

 except between veins 7 and 5, and with slight dark streaks in the 

 interspaces before it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7, escurved 

 and minutely waved at middle and angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; a terminal series of 

 small, rather triangular black spots ; cilia whitish with a fuscous 

 line near base and some fuscous at tips. Hind wing pure semi- 



