2.">2 NocTiriD^.. 



with 8 to foi-m tlie areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing vvith the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenn£e of male bipectinate with short branches, the apex serrate. 



A. Fore wing prominently variegated with black umbraculata. 



33. Fore wing not variegated with black pecten. 



3867. Spodoptera umbraculata. (Plate CXXVIII. fig. 22.) 



, Eumichtis umbraculata, Wlk. xv. 1717 (1858). 

 Agrotis enunciatus, Lucas, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. viii. p. 85 (1892). 

 Hadena andrias, Mejr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 27. 



<S . Head dark brown ; palpi with blackish patch on 2nd joint ; 

 tegulse brown at base with black medial band and grey tips ; thorax 

 brown and grey ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey- white suffused 

 in parts with reddish brown and variegated with black ; subbasal 

 line blackish, w^aved, from costa to submedian fold ; a diffused 

 brown line, angled outwards below costa and in cell and more 

 strongly inwards on vein 1 before the antsmedial line, which is 

 oblique, waved, double, the outer line stronger, filled in with grey : 

 claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform small, slightly defined 

 by blackish, the former ochreous, produced at lower extremity, the 

 latter with black centre and ochreous annulus ; postmedial line 

 somewhat dentate, defined by whitish on outer side, double at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards in discal fold, 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, with small somewhat 

 dentate brown marks on its inner side and large patches at costa 

 and middle, the area beyond it brown ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia dark brow^n intersected with white. Hind 

 wing white, the veins brownish ; the terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous broadly at apex, narrowing to a point above tornus ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a terminal 

 series of blackish points. 



9 . Fore wing more uniform greyish without the patches of 

 dark suffusion. 



Hal). QuEiiNSLAND, Brisbane {Lucas), type t S andrias in Coll. 

 Meyrick (Turner), 2 d , 1 $ , Goodna {Turner), 1 $ , Moreton TBay 

 {Diggles), 1 S tj'pe. Exj). 34-40 millim. 



3868. Spodoptera pecten. 



Spodoptera 'pccteii, Guen. Noct. i. p. 155 (1852); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 195 (pai't.). 

 Spodoptera erica, Butl. P.Z. S, 1880, p. 675. 

 Spcslotis miiformis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 226. 

 Caradrina pectifiata, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 264 (1894). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous suffused with rufous and slightly 

 mixed Avith fuscous; palpi with black spot on 1st joint and the 



