258 NOCTPIDJE. 



(Ridley), 6 <J ; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), 1 J, Kuchiug (Sliel- 

 ford), 1 $ ; Philippines, Luzon, San Fernando (McGregor), 2 J , 

 1 $ ; Java (Horsjield), 1 d , 2 $ , types nubes, filium, and srdmmr- 

 ginalis ; Cocos-Keeling I. ( Wood- Jones), 1 $ ; New Gtjinea, Sogeri, 

 i c? , Port Moresby, 1 S ; N. Australia, Port Darwin (J. J. 

 Walker), 2 J, 3 $; Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 d , 1 5, 

 Moreton Bay (Biggies), 1 $ type bisignata ; Society Is., Tahiti; 

 Marquesas (J". J. FTaZZ-er), 2 J, 5 $; Hawaii, Kona (Perl-ins), 

 1 2 ■ -Eiy- 32-44 millim. 



Zrtn'rt. Dyar, Can. Eut. 1894, p. 65, & 1900. p. 157. 



Dark brown with numerous whitisb stria3 ; dorsal fascia white- 

 edged ; subdorsal and lateral fasciae white ; ventral surface pale 

 greenish ; head red-brown. Injurious to rice in the Punjab. 



3872. Spodoptera postfusca. 



Spodoptera postfusca, Ilmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 95, pi. 102. f. 8 (1893) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 263. 



2- Head and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped with white: 

 tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen brown mixed with 

 whitish. Fore wing purplish grey thickly irrorated with dark 

 brown and with some brown suffusion before inner half of post- 

 medial line ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa 

 and black and white spot below cell ; antemedial line double, 

 minutely waved and slightly curved ; claviform defined by blackish 

 at extremity and extending to median nervure ; orbicular and 

 reniform very indistinctly defined and with a prominent black 

 patch between them in cell, the former round ; a dark striga from 

 costa to reniform and indistinct oblique line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; a diffused blackish fascia from reniform to 

 subterminal line above vein 5 ; postmedial line double, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, 

 waved, interrupted, defined by dark brown on inner side and 

 with dentate dark brown marks before it on costal half, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a slight waved terminal line with 

 small black spots in the interspaces. Hind wing dark red-brown, 

 the cilia chequered brown and whitish ; the underside rather paler, 

 with faint discoidal spot and curved postmedial line with some 

 whitish suffusion before it on disk. 



Hab. Ceylon (Green), 1 5 type. Esep. 30 millim. 



Genus LAPHYGMA. 



Type. 



Laphygma, Guen. Noct. i. p. 156 (1852) exigua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes 

 large, round; antennae of male minutely serrate or ciliated; thorax clothed 



