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centre tinged with rufous, round, an oblique whitish bar beyond it 

 before the reniform. which has a whitish annulus incompletely 

 defined by black and diffused black spot in centre, the area beyond 

 it between veins 5 and 3 suffused with fuscous to subterminal 

 line; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin; postmedial line double, the outer line indistinct, 

 bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved at discal fold and 

 oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line white with slight black streaks before it in the inter- 

 spaces, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, and incurved at discal 



Fio;. 66. — Spodoptera mcairitia, (^ . \. 



and submediau folds, a dai'k patch beyond it at discal fold and the 

 apex suffused with white ; a terminal series of small rather tri- 

 angular black spots slightly defined by whitish on inner side- cilia 

 pale rufous with blackish line near base and chequered with blackish 

 at tips. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and inner areas tiiiged 

 with brown ; a blackish terminal line ; cilia tinged with brown at 

 apex; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous a 

 terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. 



2 . Fore wing paler and more uniform brown without the 

 oblique whitish bar beyond the orbicular. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing of male like the female. 



Hah. SiERKA Leone {Morgan, Foxcroft), 2^,25, types hlsig- 

 nata, gratiosa, and triturata; Lagos, Ebute Meta {Boag), 1 §; 

 jST. Nigeria, Egga (Dadgeon), 1 J ; S. Nigeria, Old Calabar 

 {Crompton), 1 c^ , 1 $; Red Sea {Fletcher), 1 cj' ; Br. E. Africa, 

 ISTairowa {Betton), 1 d" , Kikuyu {Crawshay), i 5; Mashokalabtb, 

 Salisbury {Marshall), 2 c5" , 1 ? ; Natal, Durban {Bell-Marley, 

 Leigh), 2, c? ; Madagascar, Betsileo (Coirart), 2 J,l ?; Mattritixj's, 

 Carepipe {Belce, Tulloch), 1 cj" , 2 5 type aliena ; C. China, Shanghai, 



1 (S type obliqua ; Punjab, Simla {Sivinhoe, Harford), 4 5 , Kasauli 

 {Siuinhoe), 2 $ , Dharmsala {Hocking), 4 c5' , 4 5 , Jubbulpur 

 {Butler), 1 2 5 Allahabad, 1 5 , Manpuri, 1 cT ; N. India {James), 



2 J , 1 2 ■> types squalida, insignata, and infecta • Bengal, Calcutta, 

 1 2 ; SiND, Kutch, 1 2 ; Bombay, 2 $ , Ratnagiri {Jayalcer), 1 ^ , 

 1 $ , Khaudalla (/SwMi/toe), 1 c? ; Madras, Coimbatore {Walhouse), 



1 cS type venustula; Ceylon {Nieiner), 2 S , Pundaloya {Green), 



2 5, Trincomali {Yerhury), 1 S ', BtiEMA, Moulmein {Cleric), 2 5, 

 Rangoon {Scott), 1 2 ■> Thayetmyo {Watson), 1 $, Teuasserim, 

 Donat Hills {de Niceville), 1 J ; Andamans, 1 J ; Perak, Goping 

 {Kunstler), 1 $ ; Siam {Bowring), 1 S type permunda ; Singapore 



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