548 



NOCTUIDJE. 



reniform large, defined by black, the former oblique, open above 

 and its lower extremity produced to a point, the latter with brownish 

 centre ; a slight oblique medial brown shade from costa to median 

 nervure ; postmedial line black, strong at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, oblique to vein 6, then minutely waved, incurved below 

 vein 5, some pale points beyond it on costa ; traces of a pale sub- 

 terminal line defined on inner side by an oblique black shade at 





Fig. 154. — NdmanganU preeacula, $ . \. 



costa and with an oblique black bar from vein 2 to tornus, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 ; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia 

 with grey lino at base. Hind wing grey tinged with brown ; the 

 underside grey irrorated with pale brown, a faint brown discoidal 

 spot and rather diffused postmedial line from costa to vein 3. 



Hub. U.S.A., Colorado, Glenwood Springs, 1 d . Rep. 32 millim. 



Sect. IV. Antermte of male ciliated. 



A. Palpi with the 3rd joint long and dilated at extremity. 



4283. Namangana adela. 



Spodoptcra adela, Hmpsn. Ann. S. AfV. Mns. ii. p. 287 (.1902). 



$ . Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with red-brown and 

 dark brown ; lower part of frons whitish with black lateral bars; 

 tegula? with the basal half mostly rufous and with black medial line. ; 

 abdomen whitish irrorated with fuscous and tinged with rufous at 



Fig. 155. — Namangana adela, $ . 



base and extremity. Fore wing ochreous suffused with red-brown 

 and violaceous white, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal 

 line double filled in with white, angled outwards in cell and ending 

 at vein 1 ; antemedial line double rilled in with white, oblique, 

 waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and to inner margin ; claviform 

 large, defined by black, acute at extremity ; orbicular and reniform 

 with white annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical ; 

 postmedial line defined by white on outer side, double towards 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 



