474 NocTuiDJ?. 



Centu. Prov., Raipur (Sei^rt???), 2 cJ ; Madras, Nilgiris {Hampson), 

 2 J , 2 5 5 Palnis {Camphell), 1 §; Ceylon, (Neitner, 'Ternpleton, 

 Yerbury), 5 c?, 10 5 tj-pe latipennis, Velverry {Terburt/), 1 J , 1 ? , 

 Trincomali (Tey-buri/), 1 d" ; Btjema, MoulmeiQ (C'ZarZ:), 1 5 type 

 svoliata, Tounghu, 1 5i Heiblentaung (TFoorf), 1 6 '-, Andamans, 

 1 $ ; Singapore {Ridley), 1 (5', 2 § ; Java {Eorsfield), 1 c? , 4 $ 

 type selenamplia ; Christmas I. {Andreives), 1 $ ; New Hebrides 

 {Mathew), 2 J , 1 $ . Exp. 32-42 millim. 



Larva. Slender with ventral claspers on 9th and 10th somites 

 only ; warts black with a few inconspicuous drab hairs ; head and 

 anal segment ochreous with numerous black spots : body dorsally 

 hlackish with indistinct interrupted whitish lines ; sides brownish 

 ochreous with a white ocellate spot with black centre on each 

 somite, sometimes surrounded by reddish patches ; a sublateral 

 hrownish stripe; ventral surface dull yellowish, greenish or ochreous 

 with whitish longitudinal lines and a double maculate black lateral 

 stripe, some reddish patches in front of each spiracle ; two trans- 

 verse series of six raised black setiferous spots across middle of 

 each somite ; sometimes with greenish dorsal and subspiracular 

 stripes. Food-plants : Croton tiglium and C. aromaticum , sometimes 

 a serious pest of the former, the croton oil-plant. Pupal stage 

 9 days. (E. E. Green.) 



B. Fore wing with the apex less produced; hind wing normal. 



a. Fore wing with the reniform defined by white and with 



some white in centre teratophora. 



b. Fore wing with the lower part of reniform filled in with 



white. 

 a^. Fore wing with the orbicular repi-esented by a white 



point distigmata. 



b^. Fore wing with the orbicular absent ononocavipta. 



5719. Amyna teratophora. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 15.) 



Bryophila teratophora, Herr.-SchJiff. Aussereur. Schmett. p. 80, f. 213 



("1853) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 49. 

 Erastria inscripta, Wlk. xii. 808 (1857). 



Head and thorax brown tinged with grey ; pectus and legs 

 mostly white, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen whitish 

 suffused with brown leaving pale segmental rings. Fore wing 

 dark brown tinged with grey and irrorated with fuscous ; an in- 

 distinct double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, double, waved; orbicular small, round, 

 indistinctly defined by black, its annulus represented by a few 

 white scales ; reniform white defined slightly by black, its centre 

 defined by small dark strise and streaks ; an indistinct sinuous line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct 

 with white marks beyond it at costa and inner margin, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate and produced to minute white 

 points on the veins, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 



