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3866. Prodenia marima. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 21.) 

 Prodenia marima, Scbaus, Trans. Am. Enfc. Soc. xxx. p. 150 (1904). 



c? . Head and thorax olive and reddish brown mixed with 

 ochreous white ; palpi with some fuscous on 2iid joint behind and 

 near extremity ; tegulte with dark lines near base, at middle and 

 near tips ; patagia with some black scales near edges ; tibiae 

 and tarsi with blackish marks ; abdomen ochreous white tinged 

 with brown, the crests and anal tuft rufous. Fore wing brown 

 mixed with greyish and whitish and slightly irrorated with blackish, 

 the veins with slight pale streaks, the medial area with the median 

 nervure and veins rising from it prominently streaked with white ; 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique whitish striga from costa 

 defined on each side by slight black strise, an oblique whitish line 

 defined by blackish on inner side from subcostal nervure before 

 antemedial line to vein 1 and a black line angled outwards above 

 inner margin ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, 

 excurved from costa to median nervure and in submedian inter- 

 space, then retracted to the subbasal line at inner margin ; 

 claviform elongate, defined by black ; orbicular oblique, narrow, 

 yellowish white defined by black, with olive-brown line in centre, 

 whitish bar on outer edge and some whitish below it above base of 

 vein 2 ; reniform with ochreous-white anuulus defined by black, 

 its upper extremity produced to a rather long point ; an oblique 

 waved line from beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 

 medial line double filled in with whitish, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique, waved, incurved at discal and submedian 

 folds and bent outwards to inner margin, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line white, angled outwards above vein 7 

 and excurved at middle, with black streaks before it in the inter- 

 spaces rather longer at middle, a fine white line beyond it excurved 

 below costa and slightly defined by black on outer side ; a fine 

 waved black terminal line ; cilia fuscous and whitish intersected 

 with white and with fine white line at base followed by a dark line. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white ; the underside with the costal area 

 tinged with ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown towards apex. 



Hah. Beazil, Castro Paraiia {D. Jones), 1 S • Eap. 34 millim. 



Genus SPODOPTEEA. 



Type. 



Spodoptera, Gnen. Noct. i. p. 1 53 (1852) mauritia. 



Eidaphygma, Bull. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 668 ahysnnia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately scaled 

 and reaching about to middle of frons, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male typically ciliated ; thorax clothed ciiiefly with scales, 

 the prothorax without distinct crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; 

 fore tibise broadly fringed with hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibite 

 moderately fringed ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing witli 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins o 

 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 



