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Genus GRAMMODES. 



Grammodes, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 275 (1852). 

 Colbusa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 978 (1865). 



Type, G. geometrica, Fabr. 



Range. W. Africa ; China ; Formosa ; throughout India, Ceylon, 

 and Burma ; Java ; Borneo ; Australia ; Fiji. 



Palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of head, the 3rd 

 joint minute ; antennae almost simple in male ; thorax and abdomen 

 smoothly scaled and somewhat slender ; tibiae clothed with rather 

 long hair, the mid tibiae spined. Fore wing short and broad, the 

 apex somewhat acute. 



Larvae, with 3 pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



2586. Grammodes mygdon, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 156, G ; C. $ 8. 



no. 2678. 

 Chalciope mygdonias, Hiibn. Verz. p. 268. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; abdomen greyish fuscous. 

 Fore wing purplish grey ; the costa ochreous ; a large red-brown 

 patch occupying the whole wing except the costal and outer areas, 

 and crossed by an oblique ochreous band, its costal and outer 

 edges bordered by reddish ochreous, their angle almost joined by 

 a red-brown streak from the apex ; a submarginal series of specks. 

 Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia grey below apex and at outer angle. 



Hob. China ; Formosa ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Java ; Borneo. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



2587. Grammodes geometrica, Fair. Syst. Ent. p. 599. 



Phalaena ammonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 250, D; C. & S. 

 no. 2676. 



Noctua bifasciata, Petag. Sp. Ins. p. 38, fig. 26. 

 Noctua linearis, Hiibn. Beitr. ii, p. 26 T. 

 Noctua parellaris, Hiibn. Noct. pi. 66, fig. 324. 

 Noctua chalciptera, Borkh. Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 771. 

 Grammodes congenita, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1443. 



Grey-brown. Fore wing with a large black patch occupying the 



whole wing except the basal, 

 costal, and outer areas, its outer 

 edge waved and joined by an 

 oblique streak from the apex ; 

 ante- and postmedial lines re- 

 curved below the costa, with 

 whitish bands outside them on 

 the black patch ; the outer part 

 of the postmedial baud pale 

 Fig. 296. fulvous. Hind wing fuscous, 



with medial pale band; the cilia 

 white at apex and anal angle. 



Hal. Europe ; Africa ; Formosa ; throughout India and Ceylon ; 

 Java ; Australia. E*rp. 26 (dwarf) to 45 millim. 



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