254 xocttjid-t:. 



Sect. IT. {Eiilajyhijgma). Antennte of male minutely sen-ate and fasoiciilate, 



3869. Spodoptera abyssinia. 



Spodoptera ahi/ssinia. Gnen. Noct. i. p. 15-1 (1852). 



Spodoptera cilium, Guen. Noct. i. p. 156 (1852) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 259. 

 Caradrina latebrosa, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien. 1855, p. 205, pi. 2. 



f. 11 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 195. 

 Caradrina orbicularis, Wlk. x. 294 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Nat. Hist. Sokotra, 



p. 323, pi. XX. f. 26. 

 Caradrina prmterita, Wlk. x. 294 (1856). 

 Caradrina insignata, Wlk. x. 295 (1856). 

 Laphygma 'procedens, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). 



Agroiis infixa., Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vi. p. 186 (1862). 

 Laphygma obliterans, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 87 (1862). 

 Spodoptera insulsa, Wlk. xxxii. 648 (1865). 

 Laphi/gma imperuiata, Wlk. xxxii. 651 (1865). 

 La/phygma retrahens, Wlk. Entom. v. p. 126 (1870). 



S . Head and thorax ochreous suffused with red- brown ; palpi 

 with black bands on 2nd and 3rd joints near extremity ; frons 

 with lateral black bars ; tegnlse with black medial line ; tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown. 

 Pore wing greyish suffused with brown ; subbasal line represented 

 by double black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with whitish, the inner line indistinct, oblique, waved ; 

 orbicular whitish defined by black and with slight brown centre, 

 oblique elliptical, open below and connected by a streak above 

 median nervure with the reuiform which is defined by black on 



Fig. 64. — Spod'Op)tera abyssinia, cJ. \. 



inner side, its centre defined by diffused black ; an oblique dark 

 striga from costa to reniform and waved line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin, angled inwards in submedian fold ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with whitisb, the outer line indistinct, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, 

 some pale points with fuscous between them beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion 

 except between veins 7 and 5, and with slight dark streaks in the 

 interspaces before it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved 

 and minutely waved at middle and angled inwards in submedian 

 fold ; the terminal area tinged with fuscous ; a terminal series of 

 small, rather triangular black spots ; cilia whitish with a fuscous 

 line near base and some fuscous at tips. Hind wing pure semi- 



