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and legs orange yellow, tarsi banded with black ; abdomen oran2:e 

 yellow, with dorsal fuscous bands. Fore wing chocolate red, with 

 sub-basal yellowish-white spot ; an oblique triangular antemedial 

 spot from subcostal nervure to submedian fold ; a small medial spot 

 below costa, and a large spot from above median nervure to sub- 

 median fold ; a spot beyond the cell from below costa to below 

 vein 3 ; the costal area black, with silvery-blue spot near base ; 

 a silvery -blue streak on basal half of vein 1 ; antemedial spots in 

 and below cell, with a streak of scales above them on costa ; the 

 discocellulars silvery blue ; the postmedial line silvery blue, oblique 

 from costa to vein 4, then recurved to below end of cell; the area 

 from just beyond it strongly irro rated with whitish scales ; cilia 

 white near apex and tornus. Hind wing black, with basal white 

 patch extending on inner area to middle, its outer edge slightly 

 angled at subcostal and median nervures ; an elliptical spot beyond 

 the cell ; cilia white near apex and towards tornus. 



3 ^, 1 9 ; Flying Fish Cove, October. Exp. $ 40, $ 42 mm. 

 Allied to Perakana, Hoths. 



Family NOCTUIDiE. 



CARADRININ^. 

 6. Dipterygia vagivitta, Wlk. : Journ. Linn. See, Zool., vi, p. 185. 



2 9 ; February, March. 

 Distrib. — Sikhim, Borneo. 



7. Amyna selenampha, Guen. : Noct., i, p. 406. 



5 (J ; March. 



Distrib. — Natal, Madagascar, China, India, Ceylon, Andamans, 

 Philippines, Borneo, Java. 



8. Amyna octo, Guen. : 'Noct., i, p. 233. 



5 (J, 4 9 ; December-February. Of these six belong to the 

 form axis, with the white discoidal spot on fore wing. 



There are also 1^,1 '^, oi a very dark form, fore wing with 

 some orange on the white discoidal spot, and a prominent white 

 spot on costa close to apex ; this is also foimd in Pulo Laut and 

 Fergusson Island, New Guinea. 



Distrib. — Throughout the Tropical Zone. 



9. Prodenia littoralis, Boisd. : Faun. Ent. Madag. Lep., p. 91, 



pi. xiii, fig. 8. 



8 (?, 4 9 ; September-March. 



Distrib. — Mediterranean sub-region, and throughout the Tropical 

 and sub-Tropical Zones of the Old World. 



