403 



noctuip-t:. 



5713. Amyna octo. 



P< rigea octo, Guen. Noct. i. p. 233(1852) ; Hrapsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



Staud. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 232. 

 Amyna axis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 407 (1852). 

 Poaphila stricta, Wlk. xiv. 1476 (1858). 

 Celamaflavigutta, Wlk. xv. 1688 (1858). 

 Cefena perfundens, Wlk. xv. 1691 (1858). 

 Ilattia cephusalis. Wlk. xvi. 209 (1858); Moore, Lep. Oyl. iii 



pi. 146. ff. 4. 4a. 

 ./ col /. Guen. Maillarrl's Reunion, p 37 (1862). 



Perigea rexabilis, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 148 (1863). 

 Minna inomata, Wlk. xxxii. 677 (1865). 

 Celana obstructa, Wlk. xxxii. 679 (1865). 

 Perigea leucospila, Wlk. xxxii. 683 (1865). 



Erastria stiqmatula, Snell. Tiid. v. Ent. xv. p. 55, pi. 4. f. 16 (I87 1 

 StHdova albigutta, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc Glasg. i. p. 354 ,18 

 Erastria bavia, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 37 (1874). 

 Segetia orkica, More. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 216 (1874) 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 506 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. ! 

 Amyna undulifera,, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 403 (1875). 

 Chytoryza tccta, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 190 (18/6) ; Dmce, Biol 



Am., Hot. i. p. 338. 

 Pyrausta monotretalis, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 339 (187 

 Peregea supplex, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 452. 



-'? rufa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 199 (1906). 



p. 251 



'■I, 



2). 

 73). 



; Druce, 

 244. 



. Centr.- 



Head and thorax grey -brown with a reddish tinge, the dorsum 

 of thorax with a slight metallic gloss ; tarsi slightly ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown with a 

 reddish tinge; subbasal line represented by a slight whitish striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, defined by whitish on inner 

 side, oblique from costa to median nervure, then waved, excurved 

 above inner margin ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform with 



Fig. 132. — Amyna octo, cJ. 



incomplete white annulus slightly defined by brown and strongly 

 constricted at middle ; an indistinct medial line oblique from costa 

 to median nervure ; postmedial line dark slight!}' defined by white 

 scales on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 strongly incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa : subterminal line indistinct, whitish, slightly defined by brown 

 on inner side, somewhat angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, '3, then 

 incurved ; a terminal series of slight dark points with minute white 





