LAPHTGMA. 



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3878. Laphygma exigua. 



Noctua exigua, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 3r>2 (1808); Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vi. p. 45, pi. 75. f. 2; Mill. Icones, pi. 76. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. 



p. 259 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 195. 

 Noctua fulgens, Greyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 796 (1833). 

 Caradrma pygmcea, Embr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1834, p. 384, pi. 8. f. 2 ; 



Dup. Lep. Er. Suppl. iii. p. 321, pi. 29. f. 5. 

 Caradrina junceti, Zell. Isis, 1847, p. 445. 

 Laphygma cycloides, Gruen. Noct. i. p. 157 (1852). 

 Laphygma caradrinoides, Wlk. ix. 190 (185(5). 

 Caradrma sebghana, Aust. Le Nat. 1880, p. 212. 

 Caradrina venosa, Eutl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xvii. p. 7 (1880). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey ; palpi with 

 fuscous patch on i!nd joint ; lower part of frons whitish ; tegulse 

 whitish, brown at base and tips ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing whitish 

 suffused with red-brown and slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal 

 line represented by double black stri.'e from costa filled in with 

 white and single oblique striga from cell defined by white on outer 

 side ; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, oblique, waved ; 

 claviform represented by a slight rufoUs streak slightly defined by 

 black at extremity ; orbicular small, round, with fiery-red centre 



Laphygma exigua, c? . ^, 



and ochreous annulus defined by black ; reniform with red-brov/n 

 centre with white lunule on it and ocbreous annulus defined by 

 black ; an indistinct oblique waved medial line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, in- 

 curved at discal fold and below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line slight, white, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of rather triangular 

 black points ; cilia greyish tinged with brown and intersected with 

 fuscous, a dark line near base followed by a slight medial line. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins brown ; the costa, inner 

 margin, and termen tinged with brown, a brown terminal line ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a terminal 

 series of black points from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. pygmcea. Very small; fore wing almost uniform pale 

 brown, the orbicular with dark point in centre. 



Ab. 2. Much greyer ; fore wing with the antemedial line on 



