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(S , Head and thorax grey tinged with red-brown, the head and basal 

 half of tegulse browner ; palpi with slight dark marks at sides of 2nd joint, 

 tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous tinged with brown. Fore- 

 wing grey tinged with brown and suffused in parts with purplish red 

 especially on costal half from medial to subterminal line ; subbasal line 

 represented by indistinct double dark strise from costa and cell ; an obli- 

 que black striga with some purplish red beyond it across submedian 

 interspace before the antemedial line, which is double, rather oblique, 

 waved, excurved in submedian interspace ; claviform purplish red rather 

 incompletely defined by black ; orbicular grey tinged with olive brown and 

 slightly defined by black, oblique elliptical and with pale bar beyond it ; 

 reniform slightly and incompletely defined by black and with a diffused 

 blackish mark in centre ; the median nervure and veins arising from it 

 slightly streaked with white on medial area ; traces of an oblique waved 

 medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, 

 the outer line indistinct, bent outward below costa, then minutely waved, 

 angled inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; a dift'used oblique whitish shade from apex 

 to vein 6, the subterminal line arising from it, whitish, minutely waved, 

 incurved below vein 3, with some wedge-shaped black streaks before it at 

 middle, above and below vein 4 extending to postmedial line ; a terminal 

 series of slight black lunules ; cilia greyish tinged with rufous and with 

 slight rufous line near base. Hindwing ochreous white, the veins tinged 

 with brown, the costal area and termen suffused with brown ; a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia white ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with white, a terminal series of blackish points from apex to 

 vein 2. 



5 . Forewing more uniform fuscous brown, without the oblique pale bar 

 beyond the orbicular. 



Habitat.— G0J2D Coast ; Lagos ; Mgeria ; Sudan ; Br. E. Africa ; 

 Mozambique ; Ehodesia ; Transvaal ; Natal ; Aden ; Madras, Palnis ; 

 Ceylon, Maskeliya, HaldamuUa ; Singapore ;JQueensland ; N. S. Wales ; 

 W. Australia; Hawaii. B.vp. 26-38 mill. 

 1855. Laphygma exigua. 



Noctua exigua, Hubn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f . 362 (1808); Dup. 

 Lep. Fr. vi., p. 45, pi. 75, f, 2 ; Mill. Icones, pi. 75, f . 2 ; 

 Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 195. 

 „ fulgens, Geyer, Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 796 (1833). 

 Caradrina pygmma, Rmbr., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1834, p. 384, pi. S, 

 f. 2 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii, p. 321, pi. 29, f . 5. 

 „ junceti, Zell. Isis. 1847, p. 455. 

 Laphygma cycloides, Guen. Noct. i., p. 157 (1852). 

 „ caradrinoides, Wlk., ix., 190 (1856). 



