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Caradrina latebrosa, Led. Verz. Zool. Bot. Gles. Wien. 1855, p. 

 205. pi. 2. f., 11 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 195. 

 ,, orbicularis, Wlk., x., 294 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Nat. Hist. 



Sokotra, p. 323, pi. xx, f. 26. 

 „ prceterita, Wlk., x., 294 (1856). 

 „ insignata, Wlk., x., 295 (1856). 

 Laphygma procedens, Wlk., xi., 721 (1857). 

 Agrotis injixa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. vi., p. 186 (1862). 

 Laphygma obliterans, Wlk., Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) 1, p. 87 (1862). 

 Spodoptera insulsa, Wlk., xxxii., 648 (1865). 

 Laphygma imperviata, Wlk., xxxii., 651 (1865). 



„ retrahens, Wlk., Entom. v., p. 126 (1870). 

 (5 . Head and thorax ochreous suffused with red-brown ; palpi with 

 black bands on 2nd and 3rd joints near extremities ; f rons with lateral black 

 bars ; tegulte with black medial line ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdo- 

 men whitish dorsally suffused with brown. Forewing greyish suffused 

 with brown ; subbasal line represented by double black strige from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, the inner line 

 indistinct, oblique, waved ; orbicular whitish defined by black and with 

 slight brown centre, oblique elliptical, open below and connected by a 

 streak above median nervure with the reniform which is defined by black on 

 inner side, its centre defined by diffused black ; an oblique dark striga 

 from costa to reniform and waved line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin, angled inwards in submedian fold ; postmedial line double filled 

 in with whitish, the outer line indistinct, bent outward below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some pale points with fuscous 

 between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner 

 side by fuscous suffussion except between veins 7 and 6, and with slight 

 dark streaks in the interspaces before it at middle, angled outward at vein 

 7, recurved and slightly waved at middle and angled inwards in sub-median 

 fold ; the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; a terminal series of small 

 rather triangular black spots ; cilia whitish with a fuscous line near base 

 and some fuscous at tips. Hindwing from semihyaline white ; the under- 

 side with the costa slightly irrorated with brown, a terminal veins of 

 black points from apex to vein 2. 



2 ' Forewing with the orbicular completely defined by black, the 

 reniform with fuscous centre and whitish annulus defined by black points 

 on outer side ; hindwing with dark terminal line from apex to submedian 

 fold and dark line through the cilia to vein 2. 



Habitat. — Sierra Leone ; Lagos ; Nigeria ; Egypt ; Arabia ; Abyssinia ; 

 SoKOTRA ; Br. E. Africa ; Mashonaland ; Natal ; Cape Colony ; 

 Mauritius ; Rodriguez ; Seychelles ; Asia Minor ; Syria ; Palestine 



