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defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with grey annulus defined 

 by blaclv ; the postmedial line black defined by grey on outer side, 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa and oblique below 

 vein 3 ; an indistinct sinuous subterminal line and greyish apical 

 patch. Hindwing semihyaline white, the veins and apical area to 

 vein 2 fuscous brown. 



Hab. N'Gamiland (Lugard). Ea-jj. 30 mill. Type in B.M. 



Sect. II. Palpi with the third joint short and upturned. 



(2j Spodoptera MAUKiTiA, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag. Lep. p. 92 

 (1883). 

 Hab. West Africa; Aden; Sokotra; Maslionaland, Salisbury 

 (Marshall) ; Natal (Gooch, Wilkinson); Durban (Leigh) ; Cape 

 Colony, Grahamstown, Annshaw (Miss F. Barrett) ; Mauritius; 

 throughout the Oriental and Australian regions. Exp. 34- 

 44 mill. 



Genus PEODENIA. 



Type. 



Prodenia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 159 (1852) littoralis. 



A. Forewing with the lines pale littoralis. 



B. Forewing with the lines dark leucophlebia. 



(1) Prodenia littoralis, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag. Lep. p. 91, 



pi. 13, f. 8 (1833). Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 146, f. 1, a. b. 

 (larva). 

 Hab. Mediterranean subregion and throughout the tropical and 

 subtropical zones of the Old World ; Mashonaland, Salisbury 

 (Marshall) ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban (Leigh). Exjj. 

 30-45 mill. 



(2) Prodenia leucophlebia, n. sp. 



^ . Head and thorax dark brown and black ; abdomen whitish 

 slightly tinged with fuscous, the ventral surface fuscous, the anal 

 tuft ochreous. Forewing black suffused with leaden grey ; an indis- 

 tinct antemedial leaden-grey line bent outwards below costa and 

 excurved below cell ; the orbicular ochreous white, oblique ; the 

 reniform leaden grey with ochreous white edge ; the claviform black ; 

 the median nervure beyond the antemedial line, vein 2 to the post- 

 medial line streaked with ochreous white and the bases of veins 8-4 

 with pure white ; the postmedial line black, minutely waved, sinuous, 



