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Persia ; Punjab, Sultanpur ; Sikhim ; Bombay, Bandra ; Madras ; Gooty ; 

 Philippines ; Borneo ; Java. Exp. 28-32 mill. 



Larva. — Ochreous with numerous pale points defined by pale brown ; 

 dorsal line orange ; subdorsal line represented by a series of orange marks 

 defined by irregular black lunules above ; lateral line represented by orange 

 marks, the stigmata black with brown patches above them ; head and 

 thoracic plate red-brown. 



Sect. III. {Spodoptera). — Antennae of male ciliated ; fore tibise with very 

 large tufts of hair and scales from outer side. 



A. Hindwing semihyaline white . . . . mauritia. 



B. Hindwing cupreous brown . . . . . . postfusca. 



1831. Spodoptbra mauritia insert (syn.) 



Spodoptera acronyctoides . Gruen. Noct. i., p. 164 (1852). 

 1868. Spodoptera postfusca. 



Genus Laphygma. 



Type. 



Laphygma, Guen. Noct. i, p. 156 (1852) . . . . , . exigua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennse of male minutely serrate or ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without crest, the 

 metathorax with spreading crest ; tibise moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Forewing with the apex rectan- 

 gular, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; 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 ; 6 obsolescent from Just below middle of discocellulars ; 6*7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. — Antennge of male minutely serrate, 



1829ffl. Laphygma apertura. 



Prodenia apertura, Wlk., xxxii, 654 (1865). 



„ synstictis, Hmpsn., Moths Ind. iv, p. 511 (1896). 



Sect. II. — Antennte of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing with the orbicular narrow, oblique 



elliptical . . . . ... . . exempta. 



B. Forewing with the orbiculen round or slightly 



elliptical . . . . . . . . . . . . exigua, 



185505. Laphygma exempta. 



Agrotis exempta, Wlk., 355 (1856) ; Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. 



viii. p. 261, pi. 128, f . 24. 

 Prodenia bipars, Wlk., xi., 724 (1857). 



„ ingloria, Wlk. xv., 1679 (1858). i 



