256 koctitid.'f:. 



tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous suffused with bright 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suft'used 

 with fuscous and with slight pale streaks on the veins, some whitish 

 at base of inner margin ; faint traces of a pale curved waved ante- 

 medial line; orbicular represented by a faint minute dark spot ; 

 reniform dark, ill-defined ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, slightly 

 defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish defined by fuscous 

 suffusion on inner side, somewhat excurved at middle ; a slight 

 dark terminal line ; cilia rufous tinged with fuscous and with a 

 fine pale line at base. Hind wing pure semihyaline white ; the 

 nnderside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown. 

 Hah. Pekp, 2 (S ,1 ^ type. Exp. 36 millim. 



Skct. IV. (Spodoptera). Antennae of male ciliated ; fore tibiiie witli very large 

 tufts of hair and scales from outer side. 



A. Hind wing semihyaline white mauriiia. 



B. Hind wing cupreous brown ■postfusca. 



3871. Spodoptera mauritia. 



Hadena mauriiia, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag., Lep. p. 92, pi. 13. f. 9 (1833) ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 248. 

 Spodoptera acroni/ctoides, Gruen. Noct. i. p. 154 (1862). 

 Spodoptera omhes, Guen. Noct. i. p. 155 (1852). 

 Spodoptera fili'iim, Guen. Noct. i. p. 155 (1852). 

 Prodenia infeda, Wlk. ix. 196 (L856); Butl. 111. Het. B. M. vi. p. 33, 



pi. 109. f.' 8. 

 Prodenia inmgnata, Wlk. ix. 197 (1856). 

 Caradrina triiurata, Wlk. s. 295 (1856). 

 Agrotis transducta, Wlk. x. 344 (1856). 

 Prodenia permunda, Wlk. xi. 723 (1857). 

 Lapliygma gratio»a, Wlk. xx.xii. 651 (1865). 

 Laphygma sqitalida, Wlk. xxxii. 652 (1865). 

 Prodenia vcnust'ida, Wlk. xxxii. 654 ( 1865). 

 CelcBna bisignata, Wlk. xxxii. 679 (1865). 

 Agrotis aliena, Wlk. xxxii. 694 (1865). 

 Agrotis submarginalis, Wlk. xxxii. 699 (1865). 

 Agrotis bisigna.ta, Wlk. xxxii. 702 ( 1865). 

 Hadena obliqua, Wlk. xxxiii. 736 (1865). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some gre5ash and 

 black ; palpi with black band on 2nd joint near extremity ; frons 

 with slight lateral black bars ; antennae blackish ; tips of patagia 

 and metathorax with black scales ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous grey, the basal crest and ventral surface rufous. 

 Pore wing greyish suffused with rufous and in parts with fuscous 

 and irrorated with black, the veins greyish ; subbasal line double, 

 black, irregularly waved, the outer line angled outwards below 

 costa, from costa to vein 1 ; an oblique waved black line from sub- 

 costal nervure to inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 indistinctly double, oblique, waved and with double black spots 

 at costa ; claviform represented by an oblique black striga at its 

 extremity ; orbicular whitish defined by black except below, its 



