SrEIREDONIA. 



351 



{Leech), 1 § , Fusliiki (Leech), 1 $ , Chenado (L<2^c7(), 1 5 , Kius'hiu 

 {Leech), 1 $ , Ea-p. J 68, ? 70 millira. 



7463. Speiredonia retorta. 



Noctua retorta, Linn. Mus. Lud. V\r. p. 376 (1764); Olerck, Icones, pi. 54. 



f. 2. 

 Noctua spiralis, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 211 (1781) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 



ii. p. 553. 

 Speiredonia Jieliciva., Hiibn. Zutr. iii. 14, figs. 137, 438 (1827). 

 Erebus chimista, KoU. Hiigel's Knpclirair, iv. p. 475 (1S42). 

 Spiravia jinchuena, Bail. A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 115 (1883). 

 Spirama incequalis, Bntl. A. M. N. H. (5) xi. p. 116 (1883). 

 Spirama confusa, Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vii. p. 78, pi. 132. ff. 6-8 (1889). 

 Spirama cohtBrens, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 149, pi. 165. ff. 3, 3« 



(nee Wlk.). 



<S ' Head and thorax dark red-brown, the mesothorax with 

 some greyish; palpi crimson at base; pectus brown, legs dark 

 brown ; the throat, coxse, and hair on femora crimson ; abdomen 

 crimson, the two basal segments dorsally black-brown, the four 

 following segments with triangular black-brown patches and a 

 small spot on penultimate segment. Fore wing dark red-brown, 



Fig. 70. — Speiredonia retorta, (^ . 



the costal area tinged with greyish and the terminal area grey- 

 brown ; antemedial line black, excurved below costa, then oblique 

 and defined on inner side by greyish ; a large inverted comma- 

 shaped discoidal mark, ochreous irrorated with blackish, the head 



