. ! APAMIID.P.— NOCTUID^E. 



parallel lines, between which is an oblique whitish patch partly enclosing the orbicular spot, 

 which is stramineous and outlined in black ; the renii'orm spot large and blackish, excepting 

 its anterior border, which is pale stramineous ; area between the outer line of the central 

 belt and the external angle varied with more or less confluent white lunules ; an irregular 

 submarginal white line; a blackish patch upon the median interspaces between the outer line 

 of the central belt and the submarginal line ; a marginal series of black spots ; fringe pale 

 brown, traversed by two blackish lines : secondaries pearly white ; veins brownish ; costal and 

 external margins with a narrow bronze-brown border : thorax dark brown; abdomen whity 

 brown. Primaries below sericeous whity brown; costa spotted with lake-brown : secondaries 

 with the borders paler than above; black marginal clots between the veins: body below 

 reddish brown. Expanse of wings 34-38 millim. 

 North India, South India, Siam, Formosa. 



Three of Mr. Walker's types were received in the same collection from North India. 

 The type of P. infecta is paler, and that of P. permunda darker, than the others ; but in 

 pattern there is no variation whatever of the least importance. 



Prodenia glaucistriga. (Plate CIX. fig. 9.) 

 <J. Prodenia glaucistriga, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Lx. p. 197. n. 15 (1856). 



Exact pattern of P. retina of Europe, of which it is probably a well-developed and 

 brightly coloured form ; it differs chiefly in its slight!}' superior size and the more clearly 

 defined whiter markings on the primaries; the apical oblique dash is also of a bluer, more 

 ash-coloured, tint. Expanse of wings 37—12 millim. 



North India, Canara, Formosa. 



\< P. retina (with which P. littoralis from Madagascar is identical) occurs in Nepal, and 

 probably throughout India and Africa, in Formosa, &c, there is no reason why P. gluuci- 

 striga should not prove to be a variety, but for the fact that specimens of this form have 

 not been received from Africa. It agrees very closely with P. commelinm of the New World, 

 but the slight characters which distinguish the two appear to be constant. 



NOCTUIDJ3. 



EPILECTA, Hiibn. 



Epilecta seniiherbida. (Plate CX. fig. 1.) 



Triphocna seniiherbida, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xi. p. 743 ( L857). 



Primaries above purplish brown; the basal third, costal border, centre of interno- 

 median area, the two ordinary central and the submarginal stripes pale yellowish green; the 

 subbasal, ordinary, and submarginal stripes outlined in blackish, and the discoidal spots in 



