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Hab. Neotropical region ; West Africa; Aden; Sokotra; British 

 East Africa; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall); Natal, Est- 

 court (Hutchinson) ; China ; India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Andamans ; Java ; Fiji. Eay. 36-38 mill. 



(14) EUPLEXIA RUPTILINEA, Wlk. xi. 507 (1857). 

 Hab. Natal (Gueinzius). Exp. 34 mill. 



AUCTORUM. 



Amphia subunita, Guen. Noct. 1, p. 224 



(1852) Cape Colony. 



Hadena fusifasciata, Wlk. xxxiii. 731 



(1865). Type lost South Africa. 



Hadena mamestroides, Wlk. xxxiii. 732 



(1865). Type lost South Africa. 



Genus MAGUSA. 



Type. 

 Magusa, Wlk. xi. 762 (1857) strigifera. 



Magusa tenebrosa, Moore, P.Z.S. 1867, p. 59. Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 226. 

 Hab. Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Barrett) ; Madagascar; 

 India; Ceylon. Exp. 36-42 mill. 



Genus SPODOPTERA. 



Type. 

 Spodoptera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 153 (1852) mauritia. 



Sect. I. Palpi with the third joint long and porrect. 



(1) Spodoptera adela, n. sp. 



3' • Head and thorax pale reddish brown mixed with grey and 

 black ; palpi blackish at sides, tegulse with black medial line ; pectus 

 and legs white, the latter irrorated with pink and black, the tarsi 

 ringed with black ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown and irrorated 

 with black. Forewing grey suffused with brown ; subbasal and ante- 

 medial lines double, black filled in with grey, the former interrupted 

 and angled in cell, the latter waved, angled outwards below costa 

 and more strongly in submedian fold and above inner margin and 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform large, conjoined to the orbicular and 



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