ARGADESA. 1 6$ 



GENUS ARGADESA. 

 Argadesa, Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xi. p. 74 (1881). 



" Fore-wing in male and female with the exterior margin 

 oblique, and scalloped throughout its length; palpi shortef, 

 and the third joint slender " (Moore). The typical species is, 

 however, more easily recognised by the hind-wings, which are 

 bordered with black to the anal angle (the incisions being 

 yellow), and marked with an oval black spot. 



ARGADESA MATERNA. 

 (Plate CXLL, Fig. I.) 



Noctua materna, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i (2), p 840, no. 117 



(1767); Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 13, fig. 4 (1773) ; 



Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 174, fig. B (1777); iii. pi. 267, 



fig. E (1780). 



Noctua hybrida^ Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 593, no. ii (1775). 

 Ophideres materna, Boisduval, Faune Madag. p. TOO (1833); 



Guenee, Spec. Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 113 (1852); 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1221, no. 9 



(1857); Hampson, Faun. Brit Ind. Moths, ii. p. 561 



(1894). 

 Triphcena mater net, Westwood in Jardine's Nat. Lib. Exot. 



Moths, p. 201, pi. 25, fig. 2 (1841). 

 Argadesa materna^ Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xi. p. 74, 



pi. 12, figs 4, 4 a-d (transf.), pi. xiv. figs. 3, 3 a (1881) ; 



id. Lepid. Ceylon, iii. p 133, pi. 161, fig. 2 (1885). 



This Moth has a range extending through India and Ceylon 

 as far as Burma, and including Java and the Andaman Islands. 

 It expands from two inches and a half to three inches and 

 three-quarters. 



