PE.ODENIA. 247 



White Nile (Dunn), 1 $ ; Br. E. Aprica, Atbi-ya-Mawe {Button), 

 1 c? , Eb Urru {Button), 1 J, Kikuyu {Craivshay), 1 $, Taveta 

 (Mogei's), 1 5 ; Uganda, Ruwenzori {Legge Sf WoUaston), 1 § ; 

 Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 5 ; Natal, Malvern (Mar- 

 shall), 1 $, Maritzburg, 1 J, Durban (Gooch, Leigh), 1 c? , 4 § ; 

 RoDBiGUEZ (G'lt^Z^i'er), 2 5; Mauritius (i?eZ;e), 1 cJ ; Persian Gulp, 

 Fao (Cumming), 1 cj" ; Japan, Yokohama (Prger), 1 §; Centr. 

 China, Ichang (Pratt), 1 J , 1 $ , Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 § ; 

 EoEMOSA (Dickson, Hobson, Seebohm), 2 S , 2 $ ; Punjab, Kulu, 

 Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 S , Kasauli (Siuinhoe), 2^,2$, Dharm- 

 sala (Hocking), 3 d", '^ $, Allahabad, I c5~ , Manpuri, 1 S (Hear- 

 say), 1 5 type subterminalis, 1 c^" type glaucistriga ; Nepal 

 (Hodgson), 1 c? ; Sikhim, 1 $ ; Bombay, 1 ^ , Bandra (Jayaker), 

 1 c? , Patnagiri (Jayaker), 1 5 , Canara ( Ward), 2 J ; Madras, 

 Nilgiris (Hampson), 3 c? , Coimbatore ( Walhouse), 1 c5'; Travancore, 

 Permad (Mrs. Iinray), 2 cS ; Ceylon (Temjpleton), 1 5; Burma, 

 Moulraein (Clerk), 1 c? , 1 $ type deslinata, Mandalay (Bingham), 

 1 S , 1 $ : Singapore (Ridley), 5 cj , 2 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak, type 

 albisparsa in Mus. Oxon., Mt. Marapok, 1 $ ; Java (Horsfleld), 6 c? , 



3 5 type ciligera ; Christmas I. (Andreives), 2 2 ; Cocos Keeling I, 

 ( Wood-Jones), Id, 1 $ ; New Guinea, ILt. Kebea (Pratt), 1 c5' , 

 1 $ ; Queensland, Moreton Bay (Diggles), 2 J , Brisbane (l\irner), 

 1 cf; N. S. Wales (Daniel, Ray nor), 1 J, 1 $; Eui (Mathew), 

 1 c? J 1 $ ; Gilbert Is. ( Woodford), 2 $ ; Caroline Is. (Holden), 



4 5 type evanescens : Marshall Is. (Matheiu), 2 cJ , 3 $ ; Navigators 

 Is., 1 d ; Tahiti (Mathew), 1 J ; Society Is. (J. J. Walker), 3 $ ; 

 Marquesas (J. J. Walker), 4 c? : Sandwich Is. (Perkins), 1 $ , 

 iS'.iTp. 30-44 millim. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 146. f. 1 h. 



Pale violet-brown with subdorsal series of narrow yellow spots 

 with black lunulas above them ; lateral series of purplish black 

 spots with white dot in centre ; a sublateral white line. Food- 

 plant : Lantana. 



3863. Prodenia latifascia. (Plate CXXVIIl. fig. 18.) 



Prodenia latifascia, Wlk. ix. 195 (1856). 



P/'OffewM i;a?-2o/osff, Wlk, xi. 722 (1857) ; D nice, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 269. 

 Prodenia cosmioides, Wlk. xv. 1678 (1858). 

 Prodenia commelincs, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 268 (part.), nee 



Smith & Abbot. 



J . Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous; palpi with 

 blackish marks at sides of 2nd and 3rd joints ; tegulse with slight 

 brown medial line and some rufous at tips ; tibise with some black 

 points, the tarsi banded with black ; a-bdomeu ochreous suffused 

 with rufous. Fore wing ochreous suffuseo. with rufous, the basal 

 area with some whitish suffusion, the antemedial area with some 

 greyish fuscous suffusion, the area beyond postmedial line bluish 

 white wdth red-brown patch on cOsta before subterminal line and 



