258 NOCTUID^Ii. 



{Ridley), 6 c^" ; Bokneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 c? , Ivuching {SJiel- 

 ford), 1 5; Philippines, Luzon, San Fernando {31cGref/or), 2 c? , 

 1 5 ; Java (Horsjield), ] c? , 2 $ , types nubes, filium, and suhmao'- 

 ginalis ; Cocos-Keeling I. ( Wood-Jones), 1 $ ; New Guinea, Sogeri, 

 ] S, Port Moresby, 1 c? ; N. Australia, Porb Darwin {J. J. 

 WalTcer), 2 J , 3 $ ; Qoeensxand, Brisbane {Turner), 1 J , 1 5 , 

 Morelon Bay {Diggles), 1 5 type bisignata • Society Is., Tahiti; 

 Marquesas {J. J. Walker), 2 d" , 5 $ ; Hawaii, Kona {Perkins), 

 1 2 ■ Exp. 32-44 millim. 



Larva. Dyar, Can. Ent. 1894, p. 65, & 1900, p. 157. 



Dark brown with numerous whitish strias ; dorsal fascia white- 

 edged ; subdorsal and lateral fasciae white ; ventral surface pale 

 greenish ; head red-brown. Injurious to rice in the Punjab. 



3872. Spodoptera postfusca. 



Spodopfera postfusca, Hnipsn. 111. Het. B. M. ix. p. 95, pi. 162. f. 8 (1S93) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 263. 



2 , Head and thorax red-brown, the scales tipped wiili white: 

 tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; abdomen brown mixed with 

 whitish. Fore wing purplish grey thickly irrorated with dark 

 browu and with some brown suffusion before inner half of post- 

 medial line ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa 

 and black and white spot below cell ; antemedial line double, 

 minutely waved aud slightly curved ; claviform defined by blackish 

 at extremity and extending to median nervure ; orbicular and 

 reniform very indistinctly defined and with a prominent black 

 patch between them in cell, the former round ; a dark striga from 

 costa to reniform and indistinct oblique line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; a diffused blackish fascia from reniform to 

 subterminal line above vein 5 ; postmedial line double, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, 

 waved, interrupted, defined by dark brown on inner side and 

 with dentate dark brown marks before it on costal half, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a slight waved terminal line with 

 small black spots in the interspaces. Hind wing dark red-brown, 

 the cilia chequered brown aud whitish ; the underside rather paler, 

 with faint discoidal spot and curved postmedial line with some 

 whitish suffusion before it on disk. 



Hub. Ceylon {Green), 1 $ type. E.vp. 30 raillim. 



Genus LAPHYGMA. 



Type. 



Lafhygma, Guen. Noct. i. p. 156 (1852) exigua. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes 

 large, round; antonnee. of male minutely serrate or ciliated; thorax clothed 



