242 



>'OCTriI).E. 



«'. Fore wing ver.y long and narrow, the wliole 

 medial area suffused with ochreous in male, 

 the female with some ochreous ou middle of 



inner margin latifascia. 



b*. Fore wing shorter and broader, the medial 

 area suffused with ochreous in male, in female 

 without ochreous. 

 «'. Fore wing largely suffused with fuscous, the 

 violaceous white fascia from apex promi- 

 nent in male ornithogalli. 



h^. Fore wing paler brown, the violaceous 



white fascia from apex slight prcefica. 



'. Fore wing without violaceous white fascia from 



apex marima. 



3859. Prodenia dolichos. 



Nodua dolichos, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3. 2, p. 95 (1794). 



PhalcBna commelinw, Smith & Abbot, Ins. Georgia, ii. p. 189, pi. 95 (1797) ; 



Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 268; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 169. 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous ; palpi with red- 

 brown bar near extremitj^ of 2nd joint ; frons with red-brown bar 

 above ; vertex of head mostly red-brown ; tegulse with black-brown 

 band at base and medial line and red-brown band near tips ; patagia 

 edged with red-brown and with black line near upper edge ; tibiae 

 and the 1st joint of mid tarsi streaked with red- brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous suffused with rufous. Fore wing red-brown, the basal 

 half of costal area whitish irrorated with red-brown, an ochreous 



Fig. 62. — Prodenia dolichos, S • 



fascia on inner margin from before antemedial line, where it narrows 

 to a point, to termen where it expands to submedian fold ; an 

 oblique whitish and blackish striga from base of costa ; subbasal 

 line represented by an oblique whitish striga from costa defined on 

 each side by blackish striae ; an oblique whitish streak from sub- 

 costal nervure at antemedial line to vein 1, double below submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line rather indistinct, double filled in with whitish, 

 minutely waved, bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform slightly 

 defined by black, elongate and extending to the medial line ; orbi- 

 cular ochreous white defined by black except below, with brown 

 line in centre and ochreous bar on outer edge, oblique and with 

 oblique ochreous bar from its lower extremity above and below 



