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centre tinged with rufous, round, an oblique whitish bar beyond it 

 before the reniform which has a whitish annulus incompletely 

 defined by black and diffused black spot in centre, tbe area beyond 

 it between veins 5 and 3 suffused with fuscous to subterniinal 

 line; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin; postmedial line double, tbe outer line indistinct, 

 bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved at discal fold and 

 oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white with slight black streaks before it in the inter- 

 spaces, angled outwards at veins 7, 0, 4, 3, and incurved at discal 



Fig. 60 



Spodoptera mauritia, <$ . 



and submediau folds, a dark patch beyond it at discal fold and the 

 apex suffused with white ; a terminal series of small rather tri- 

 angular black spots slightly defined by whitish on inner side; cilia 

 pale rufous with blackish line near base and chequered with blackish 

 at tips. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and inner areas tinged 

 with brown ; a blackish terminal line; cilia tinged with brown at 

 apex ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a 

 terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. 



2 . Fore wing paler and more uniform brown without the 

 oblique whitish bar beyond the orbicular. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing of male like the female. 



Hah. Sierra. Leone {Morgan, Foxcroft), 2 3,2 § , types Usicj- 

 nata, gratiosa, and triturata; Lagos, Ebute Meta (Boag), 1 §; 

 N. Nigeria, Egga (Dudgeon), 1 3 ; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar 

 (Crompton), 1 3 , 1 $; Bed Sea (Fletcher), 1 J ; Ee. E. Africa, 

 Nairowa (Bet ton), 1 c?,Kikuyu (Crau)shay), 1 5; Mashoxalaxd, 

 Salisbury (Marshall), 2 (J, 1 $; Natal, Durban (Bell-Marley , 

 Leigh), 2 3; Madagascar, Betsile6(C<n<w/i), 2 3 , 1 £; Mauritius, 

 Curepipe (Bel-e, Tulloch), 1 3 , 2 $ type aliena ; C. China, Shanghai, 



1 3 type ohliqua; Punjab, Simla (Sivinhoe, Harford), 4 2 , Kasauli 

 (Sivinhoe), 2 2 » Dharmsala (Hocking), 4 3 , 4 $ , Jubbulpur 

 (Butler), 1 $ , Allahabad, 1 2 , Manpuri, 1 J ; N. India (James), 



2 3 , 1 $ , types squalida, insignata, and infecta ; Bengal, Calcutta, 

 1 $ ; Sind, Kutch, 1 5 ; Bombay, 2 2 , Ratnagiri (Jayaker), 1 3 , 

 1 $ , Khandalla (Sivinhoe), 1 3; Madras, Coimbatore (Walhome), 



1 3 type venustula; Ceylon (Nietner), 2 3, Pundaloya (Gre>>n), 



2 2 1 Trincomali (Yerhury), 1 3; Burma, Moulmein (Cleric), 2 2, 

 Bangoou (Scott), 1 §, Thayetmyo (Watson), 1 £, Teuasserim, 

 Donat Hills (de NiceviUe), 1 3 ; Andamans, 1 3 ; Perak, Coping 

 (Kunsiler), 1 j; Siam (Bowring), 1 3 type jurrnuad,! : ; Singapore 



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