256 N0CTTJ1D/E. 



tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with bright 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous and with slight pale streaks on the veins, some whitish 

 at base of inner margin ; faint traces of a pale curved waved ante- 

 medial line; orbicular represented by a faint minute dark spot ; 

 reniform dark, ill-defined; postmedial line indistinct, dark, slightly 

 denned by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below eosta and 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish defined by fuscous 

 suffusion on inner side, somewhat excurved at middle ; a slight 

 dark terminal line ; cilia rufous tinged with fuscous and with a 

 fine pale line at base. Hind wing pure semihyaline white; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown. 

 Hah. Peru", 2 3 , 1 $ type. Exp. 36 millim. 



Sect. IV. (Spodoptera.). Antennae of male ciliated ; fore tihire with very lar^e 

 tufts of hair and scales from outer side. 



A. Hind wing semihyaline white mauritia. 



B. Hind wing cupreous brown postfusca. 



3871. Spodoptera mauritia. 



Hadena mauritia, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag., Lep. p. 92, pi. 13. f. 9 (1833) ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Lid. ii. p. 248. 

 Spodoptera acronyctoid.es, Ghien. JMoet. i. p. 154 (1852). 

 Spodoptera nubes, Gruen. Noct. i. p. 155 (1852). 

 Spodoptera fdium, Guen. Noct. i. p. 155 (1852). 

 Prodenia infecta, Wlk. ix. 196 (1856); Butl. 111. Plet. B. M. vi. p. 33, 



pi. 109. f.' 8. 

 Prodenia insignata, Wlk. ix. 197 (1856). 

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

 Agmtis transducta, Wlk. x. 344 (1856). 

 Prodenia permunda, Wlk. xi. 723 (1857). 

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

 Laphygma squalida, Wlk. xxxii. 652 (1865). 

 Prodenia vcnustula, Wlk. xxxii. 654 (1865). 

 Celcena bisignata, Wlk. xxxii. 679 (1865). 

 Agrotis aliena, Wlk. xxxii. 694 (1865). 

 Agrotis submarginalis, Wlk. xxxii. 699 (1865). 

 Agrotis bisignata, Wlk. x\xii. 702 (1865). 

 Hadena obliqua, W T lk. xxxiii. 736 (1865). 



r{ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some greyish and 

 black ; palpi with black band on 2nd joint near extremity ; frons 

 with slight lateral black bars ; antenna? blackish ; tips of patagia 

 and metathorax with black scales ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous grey, the basal crest and ventral surface rufous. 

 Pore wing greyish suffused with rufous and in parts with fuscous 

 and irrorated with black, the veins greyish ; subbasal line double, 

 black, irregularly waved, the outer line angled outwards below 

 costa, from costa to vein 1 ; an oblique waved black line from sub- 

 costal nervure to inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 indistinctly double, oblique, waved and with double black spots 

 at costa ; claviform represented by an oblique black striga at its 

 extremity; orbicular whitish defined by black except below, its 



