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black with orange spot above the jaw and with numerous black hairs. 

 Food-plant : Drosera, especially the stems, forming a cocoon in the 

 earth. 8. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular narrow, oblique elliptical. 

 a. Fore wing with the medial .line angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold exempta. 



h. Fore wing with the medial line not angled inwards in 



submedian fold frugiperda. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular round or slightly elliptical. 



a. Head and tegulse ochreous white flavimacidata. 



b. Head and teguhe concolorous with thorax exigiia, 



3S75. Laphygma exempta. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 24.) 



Agrotis exempta, Wlk. x. 355 (1856). 

 Prodenia Mpars, Wlk. xi. 724 (1857). 

 Prodenia ingloria, Wlk. xv. 1G7U (1858). 



S . Head and thorax grey tinged with red-brown r the head and 

 basal half of tegulas browner ; palpi with slight, dark marks at 

 side of 2nd joint ; tarsi brown ringed with white : abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing grey tinged with brown 

 and suffused in parts with purplish red especially on costal half 

 from medial to subterminal line ; subbasal line represented by 

 indistinct double dark striae from costa and cell ; an oblique black 

 striga with some purplish red beyond it across submedian inter- 

 space before the antemedial line, which is double, rather oblique, 

 waved, excurved in submedian interspace ; elaviform purplish red, 

 rather incompletely defined by black ; orbicular grey tinged with 

 olive-brown and slightly defined by black, oblique elliptical, and 

 with pale bar beyond it ; reniform slightly and incompletely defined 

 by black and with a diffused blackish mark in centre ; the median 

 nervure and veins arising from it slightly streaked with whitish on 

 medial area ; traces of an oblique waved medial line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margiu ; postmedial line double, the outer 

 line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, 

 angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa; a diffused oblique whitish shade 

 from apex to vein 6, the subterminal line arising from it, whitish, 

 minutely waved, incurved below vein 3, with some wedge-shaped 

 black streaks before it at middle, above and below vein 4 extending 

 to postmedial line ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia 

 greyish tinged with rufous and with slight rufous line near base. 

 Hind wing ochreous white, the veins tinged with brown, the costal 

 area and termen suffused with brown ; a fine dark terminal line ; 

 cilia white ; the underside with the costal area slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a terminal series of blackish points from apex to 

 vein 2. 



$ . Fore wing more uniform fuscous brown, without the oblique 

 pale bar beyond the reniform. 



