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Genus CARADRINA. 



Caradrina, OcJis. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 80 (1816). 

 Laphygma, Guen. Noct. i, p. 156 (1852). 

 Dyrzela, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1758 (1858). 

 Radinacra, ButL A. M. N. H. (5) i, p. 161 (1878). 

 Dadica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 349. 

 Vapara, Moore, Lep. Atk.p. 163 (1882). 

 Leucocosmia, ButL Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 394. 



Type, C. taraxaci, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Eyes naked and without lashes ; proboscis fully developed ; palpi 

 upturned, the 2nd joint evenly clothed with hair. Thorax and 

 abdomen without tufts ; tibiae without spines ; cilia not crenulate. 



SECT. I. Palpi with the 3rd joint very short. Male without 

 tufts of hair on the claspers. 



A. (Caradrina). Male without a cleft corneous ridge on 

 vertex of head. 



a. Antennce minutely ciliated in male. 



1854. Caradrina cognata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 119; C. $ S. no. 2010. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous brown ; palpi with 2nd joint black 

 at sides. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, slightly irrorated with dark 

 scales ; subbasal, antemedial, medial, postmedial, submarginal, and 

 marginal indistinct waved lines, the second angled near inner margin, 

 the fourth below the costa ; stigmata obsolete or the reniform some- 

 times small and ochreous with two white specks on it. Abdomen 

 and hind wing pure white, the latter with the veins and margin 

 slightly tinged with fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Poona ; Khandala ; Nilgiris. Exp. 24 millim. 



1855. Caradrina exigua, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Noct. fig. 362 ; 



C. # S. no. 2122. 



Caradrina orbicularis, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 294. 



Caradrina venosa, ButL Ent. Mo. Mag. xvii, p. 7 ; C. 8f S. no. 2115. 

 Spodoptera cilium, Guen. Noct. i, p. 156 ; C. fy S. no. 2117. 

 Spodoptera insulsa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 648. 

 Spodoptera erica, ButL P. Z. S. 1880, p. 675. 

 Laphygma cycloides, Guen. Noct. i, p. 157. 

 Laphygma macra, Guen. Noct. i, p. 157. 

 Laphygma ? caradrinoides, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 190. 

 Caradrina flavimaculata, Harvey, Grote, Neiv Check-list, p. 30. 

 Caradrina insignata, C. 8f S. no. 2112 (nee Wlk.) 



Pale ochreous brown. Pore wing with the subbasal, ante- and 

 postmedial double lines indistinct ; the orbicular small and round, 

 pale or ochreous ; the reniform usually less prominent, with 

 ochreous or dark centre ; the submargiual line pale, angled below 

 the costa, and with some slight dark streaks before it at middle ; a 



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