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Larva brownish ochreous, with a dorsal series of slender erect 

 black hairs which are very long and with spatulate ends at anterior 

 and posterior extremities ; lateral series of white hairs ; a subdorsal 

 black-spotted green band from 5th to 10th somites ; dorsal black 

 spots on 2nd to 5th and llth somites. 



Hab. Ceylon. Ex p. 20 millim. 



2202. Plotheia rabdota, Hmpsn. Ill Het. viii, p. 88, pi. 146, fig. 4. 



$ . Head and thorax pale brown. Pore wing pale brown, the 

 inner margin darker ; blackish streaks below the median nervure 

 and from the upper angle of cell to apex and from lower angle to 

 centre of outer margin ; a dark patch at outer angle and series of 

 marginal specks. Hind wing whitish ; the outer margin very 

 slightly suffused with fuscous. 



Hob. Mlgiris. Exp. 26 millim. 



2203. Plotheia metaspilella, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1746. 



Head and thorax grey ; abdomen brownish. Pore wing grey ; 

 traces of a waved antemedial line ; an indistinct waved double 

 medial line sending a dark spur outwards in the interno-median 

 interspace to the indistinct curved and waved postmedial line ; a 

 dark speck at end of cell ; a series of dark submarginal specks. 

 Hind wing white, suffused with fuscous in the male, entirely 

 fuscous in the female. 



Hab. Ganjam ; Nilgiris. Exp., tf 23, $ 25 millim. 



Grenus HYBL-ffiA. 

 Hyblgea, Fair. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 127 (1794). 



Type, H. puera, Cram. 



Range. Throughout the tropical and subtropical zones ; N. China; 

 Japan. 



Head very small ; palpi porrect and rostriform ; antennae 

 minutely ciliated in male ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; 

 tibiae clothed with long hair and without spines. Pore wing with 

 the costa arched near base, the inner margin lobed ; vein 1 a strong 

 and bent down to near centre of inner margin ; the cell open ; 

 veins 6, 7, 8, 9 from close to angle of cell. Hind wing with the 

 cell open ; vein 8 anastomosing with 7 to near middle of cell. 



SECT. I. Pore wing with the outer margin not excised 

 below apex and evenly curved. 



2204. Hyblaea puera, Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 103, figs, D, E ; C. $ S. 



no. 2232 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 154, figs. 2. '2 a (larva). 

 Noctua saga, Fabr. Mant. I*. ii, p. 137. 

 Noctua unxia, Hilbn. Eur. Schmctt., Noct. fig. 513. 

 Heliothis apricans, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag. p. 98, pi. 15, fig. 7. 



Head and thorax greyish red-brown ; abdomen black-brown 



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