THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 1067 



Genus, Agroperina. 



Type. 

 Agroperina, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii, p. 398 (1908). . lateritia. 

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

 to middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short, porrect ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennee of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the latter with indistinctly double 

 ridge-like dorsal crest ; tibise moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crests on basal segments, some rough hair at base, and lateral fringes 

 of hair. Forewing rather narrow, the apex rectangular, the termen 

 obliquely curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3'4 from angle of cell ; 5 

 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars : 6 - 7 from upper angle, 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 

 171 Ort. Agroperina lateritia. 



Phalmna lateritia, Hiifn. Berl. Mag., hi, p. 306 (1767) ; Esp. 

 Schmett., iv, pi. 131, ff. 3-4 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii, p. 208, pi. 113, 

 f. 5 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. i, pi. 65 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am., p. 

 134 ; Staud, Cat. Lep. pal. p. 173. 

 Noctua molochina, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 74 (1802). 

 Mamestra obliviosa, Wlk., xv, 1683 (1858). 

 Hadena expallescens, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 41. 

 Hadena satina, Streck, Lep. Rhop. and Het. Suppl., i, p. 8 



(1898) ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am., p. 115. 

 Hadena borealis. Strand, Arch. Naturv. Christian, xxv, 9, p. 13 

 (1903). 

 Head and thorax dark purplish red ; palpi and frons at sides dark 

 brown ; pectus with the hair pale ; tarsi dark brown ringed with whitish ; 

 abdomen ochreous or reddish brown, greyish at base. Forewing purplish 

 red brown with slight dark irroration, the costal area rather browner, the 

 veins irrorated with some white scales ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double at costa, oblique to 

 submedian fold, angled inwards to a dark point on vein 1, and bent inwards 

 to inner margin ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform narrow with 

 dark brown centres and incomplete white annuli, the former oblique 

 elliptical ; a dark medial shade, oblique from costa to vein 2, then incurved ; 

 postmedial line double and filled in with whitish at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate and produced to black and white points on the 

 veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined on inner side by brown, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4*3; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hindwing pale suftused with ochreous brown, tha 



