THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



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termen brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a discoidal ei ot, 



indistinct sinuous postmedial line with dark streaks on the veins, and some 

 terminal lunules. 



Habitat. — Sikhim. Exp. 34, mill. 



Genus Scotog bam .v a 



Type. 



Scotogramma, Smith, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. X., p. 461' (1887)... submarina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair in- 

 front, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons with rounded prominence with slight 

 vertical edge and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; aniermae of 

 male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the pro- and 

 meta thorax with spreading crests; tibia? fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal series of crests and lateral fringes of hair. Forewing with veins 3 and 

 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3*4. from angle of 

 cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6"7 from upper angle ; 8> 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Forewing with the subterminal line angled outwards at 



veins 4 3 and forming a distinct W-mark ... trifolii. 



B. Forewing with the subterminal line not forming a W- 



mark at veins 4*3 agrotiformis- 



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Scotograma trifolii, £ j. 

 Scotogramma trifolii, insert \^syns.). 

 Noctua tenia, Fsp. Schmett., IV., pi. 117, A ff. 5'6 (1786). 

 „ xaucia, Esp. Schmett , IV , pi. 15*2, f. 5. (1786). 

 „ treitschkei, Hiibn., Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 8.50 (1827) ; Boisd.. 

 Mem. Soc. Linn., Paris 1827, p. hi., pi. 6, f. 2 ; Dup. Lep. 

 Fr. VIII. p. 40, pi. 103, f. 1 ; Herr-Schaff . Schmett., Eur. 

 Noct. ff. 68-69 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. Pal, p. 159. 

 „ pugnax, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. ff. 726-7 (1827). 

 „ farhasii, Treit. Schmett. Eur., N. 2, p. 7 ! . (1835). 

 Hadena inter missa, Wlk., XI., 587 (1857). 

 Apamia inquieta, Wlk., XI., 730 (1857). 

 Hadena albifma, Wlk., XII., 752 (1857). 



Apamea glaiicoraria, Wlk., Can. Nat. and Geol., V., p. 255 (U60). 

 Mamestra canescens, Moore. A. M. N. H. 1878, p. 233: id. 2nd. 

 Yarkand Mission, p. 9, pi. 1, f. 13. 

 „ oregonica, Grote, Can. Ent., XIII., p. 230 (1881). 



