468 NOCTUIDiR. 



5713. Amyna octo. 



Ferigea octo, Guen. Noct. i. p. 233(1852) ; Ilmpsn. Motlis Iiid. ii. p. 251 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 232. 

 Amyna axis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 407 (1852). 

 Toaphila stricta, Wlk. xiv. 1476 (1858). 

 Celcena fiavigutta, Wlk. xv. 1688 (1858). 

 CelcBiia j)erfundens, Wlk. xv. 1691 (1858). 

 Ilattia cephusalis. Wlk. xvi. 209 (1858); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 27, 



pi. 146. ff. 4, 4 'a. 

 Ami/na colon. Gueu. Maillard's Eeunion, p 37 (1862). 

 Terigea vexahilh, Wllgrn. Wien. Eiit. Moa. vii. p. 148 (1863). 

 Miana inornata, Wlk. xxxii. 677 (1865). 

 Celcena obstructa, Wlk. xxxii. 679 ( 1865). 

 Terigea leticospila, Wlk. xxxii. 683 (1865). 



Erastria stigmatula, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xv. p. 55, pi. 4. f. 16 (1872). 

 Sfriclovcc alhlgutfa, Wlk. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 354 (1873). 

 Erastria hav'ia, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. f. 37 (1874). 

 Segetia orhica, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 216 (1874) ; Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 506 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N, Am. p. 244. 

 Amyna undulif'era, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 403 (1875). 

 Chytoryza tecta, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 190 (1876) ; Druce, Biol. Ceutr.- 



Am.,Het. i. p. 338. 

 Pyrausia monotretalis, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 339 (1879). 

 Peregea snpflex, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 452. 

 Berresa rufa, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 199 (1906). 



Head and thorax grey-brown with a reddish tinge, the dorsum 

 of thorax with a slight metallic gloss ; tarsi slightly ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown with a 

 reddish tinge ; snbbasal line represented bv a slight whitish striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, defined by whitish on inner 

 side, oblique from costa to median nervure, then waved, excurved 

 above inner margin ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform with 



Fig. 132. — Amyna octo, ^. \. 



incomplete white annulus slightly defined by brown and strona^ly 

 constricted at middle ; an indistinct medial line oblique from costa 

 to median nervure ; postmedial line dark slightly defined by white 

 scales on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 strongly incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa : subterminal line indistinct, whitish, slightly defined by brown 

 on inner side, somewhat angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, then 

 incurved ; a terminal series of slight dark points with minute white 



