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blue-white patch from apex to postmedial line, towards which it is 

 somewhat diffused and tinged with violaceous, its upper edge angled 

 above vein 6, the median nervure with pale yellow streak forking 

 on bases of veins 3, 4 ; an oblique white striga from base of costa ; 

 subbasal line pale yellow, acutely angled outwards below costa, 

 ending at subcostal nervure and with short yellow streaks beyond 

 it on costal and subcostal nervures ; a double very oblique yellow 

 line across submedian interspace before the antemedial line, the 

 inner line extending across cell ; antemedial line double rilled in 

 with yellowish, excurved below costa and in submedian interspace 

 where it is defined by yellowish on inner side, bent inwards to 

 inner margin ; claviform slightly defined by blackish, narrow and 

 acute at extremity ; orbicular a very oblique yellow bar with two 

 fine brown lines on it, an oblique white strealc from its lower edge 

 to subterminal line at submedian fold and some yellowish above 

 base of vein 2 ; a narrow yellowish and blackish bar across the 

 cell before the reniform which is faintly defined by yelloAvish and 

 black, its upper extremity produced to a point and with distinct 

 yellowish mark on its outer edge ; some ochreous and black irro- 

 ration above orbicular and reniform ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double, filled in with yellowish below vein 2, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique, waved, incurved below vein 2, some white 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line yellowish, almost obsolete 

 on the white patch, then slightly excurved and with black streaks 

 before it in the interspaces, long above and below vein 3, angled 

 inwards in submedian fold and defined by black on inner side, a 

 series of yellow and black striae beyond it except on the white 

 patch ; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined by 

 yellowish on inner side ; cilia red-brown intersected with yellowish 

 and with fine yellowish line at base. Hind wing semihyaline 

 Avhite, the costa and termen towards apex slightly tinged with 

 brown ; a dark point on termen below apex and a fine terminal 

 line from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costa irrorated 

 with brown except towards base, a terminal series of black points 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. Panama, Bugaba (Champion), 1 (S , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; 

 St. Lucia (Coiuie), 1 $ ; Tkinidad (Kayc), 1 $ ; Gdianas, Cayenne, 

 Surinam ; Beazil, Espiritu Santo (Higgins), 1 $ . Eocj). 52-54 

 millim. 



3862. Prodenia litura. 



Noctioa litura, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 601 (1775). 



Noctua histrionica, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 612 (1775). 



Noctua elafa, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 220 (1781). 



Hadena littoralis, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Mad. p. 91, pi. 13. f. 8 (1833) ; 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 19, pi. 146. ff. la, 6 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii, 



p. 247 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 184. 

 Hadena retina, Fn-. Neue Beitr. v. p. 161, pi. 478. fi". 2-3 (1846) ; Herr.- 



Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 144-5. 

 Prodenia tasmanica, Guen. Noct. i. p. 163 (1852). 

 Prodenia ciligera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 164 (1852). 

 Prodenia testaceoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 165 (1852). 



