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XOCTUIDiE. 



3874. Laphygma apertura. 



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



Prodenia synstictis, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 511 (1896). 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with reddish brown ; palpi 

 brown except at tips ; vertex of head with some blackish scales ; 

 tegula? with slight dark medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen ochreous white, the basal crest blackish. Fore 

 wins; ochreous suffused with dark brown and greyish and irrorated 

 with black, the medial area with the median nervure, vein 2 and 

 the bases of veins 3, 4 streaked with ochreous white ; subbasal line 

 represented by double black stria? from costa and cell, with au 

 oblique blackish mark beyond it across submedian interspace; 

 antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with ochreous, angled 

 outwards below costa, excurved in submedian interspace and 

 retracted to inner margin ; claviform moderate, blackish ; orbicular 

 and reniform ochreous defined by black and with pale brown 



Fig. 67. — Laphygma apertura, \ ' . 



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centres, the former narrow, oblique, its lower extremity produced 

 and confluent with the latter which is produced at upper extremity, 

 some ochreous above base of veiu 2 ; an oblique waved black line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin, interrupted by the streak 

 on vein 2; postmcdial double filled in with ochreous, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely waved, and incurved 

 at discal and submedian folds, some minute pale points beyond it 

 on costa ; a subterminal series of ochreous stria? with small some- 

 what dentate black marks on their inner side except towards costa; 

 a series of ochreous stria? just before term en on which there is a 

 series of black points ; cilia with fine whitish line at base. Hind 

 wing pure white with slight dark points on apical half of termen ; 

 the underside with the costa slightly tinged with brown. 



Hub. C. China, Ichang (Jlrs. Pratt), 1 J; Madras, Xilgiris 

 (Hampson), 1 J, 1 §; Ceylon, Hambantota (Pole), 1 rf type 

 synstictis. Exp. 24-32 millim. 



Larva. Bain brigge- Fletcher, Spolia Zeylanica, 190.3, p. 95. 



Jet-black, the segmental interstices creamy white, the prothorax 

 with three yellow spots, the other segments with slight pale yellow 

 dorsal spots forming a disconnected line ; subdorsal line formed of 

 pale yellow marks ; spiracular line pale yellow ; ventral surface 

 glaucous green with white points; anus edged with orange; head 



