248 NOCTUTDJE. 



claviform black ; an indistinct lunulate postinedial line excurved 

 beyond cell ; a waved submarginal line with black streaks before 



Fig. 139. Prodenia littoralis, <$. \. 



it; cilia with pale streaks through them. Hind wing opalescent 

 and semihyaline white, with dark marginal line. 



Larva pale violet-brown, with a subdorsal series of narrow 

 yellow spots with black lunules above them ; a lateral series of 

 purplish-black spots centred by a w r hite dot ; a sublateral white 

 line. Pood-plant Lantana. 



Hob. Mediterranean subregion and throughout the tropical 

 and subtropical zones of the Old World. Exp. 30-45 millim. 



1830. Prodenia minima, Swinn. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 410. 



cJ . Brownish white, irrorated with dark scales. Fore wing with 

 some dark marks on the indistinct subbasal line ; the antemedial 

 waved line interrupted and with the large dark claviform stigma con- 

 joined to it, beyond which is an oblique pale fascia from the median 

 nervure ; the orbicular and reniform on a diffused dark triangular 

 patch, the former a white speck, the latter quadrate ; the post- 

 medial and submarginal lines indistinctly lunulate, the latter 

 obsolete from the costa to vein 5 ; a marginal series of dark spots. 

 Hind wing pure white. 



Hal. Hydrabad, Sind. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus SPODOPTERA. 



Spodoptera, G-uen. Noct. i, p. 153 (1852). 



Type, S. mauritia, Boisd. 



Range. W. Indies : N. & S. America ; Africa ; IN". China and 

 throughout the Oriental and Australian regions. 



Differs from Prodenia in having immensely developed tufts of 

 hair on the fore tibiae ; cilia slightly crenulate ; antennae almost 

 simple. 



1831. Spodoptera mauritia, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Maday., Lep. p. 92. 

 Spodoptera nubes, Guen. Noct. i, p. 155 ; C. fy S. no. 2121. 

 Spodoptera nlium, Guen. Noct. i, p. 155. 



Prodenia infecta, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 196 ; JButl. III. Net. vi, pi. 109, 



fig. 8. 

 Prodenia insignata, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 197. 



