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the black lines edged with whitish grey scales, the orbicular more oval, and the hindwings more plainly- 

 darker along costa and termen. Larva ochreous with pale dots edged with brownish; dorsal line orange; 

 a subdorsal series of orange marks, defined by irregular black lunules above; lateral line interruptedly 

 orange; the spiracles black; head and thoracic plate redbrown. 



Sect. III. Antennae of q ciliated; foretibiae with large tufts of hair on outer side. 



S. mauritia Bsrf. (= acronyctoides Guen., nubes Guen., filum Guen., infecta Walk., insignata Walk., mauritia. 

 trituvata Walk., fcransducta Walk., permunda Walk., gratiosa Walk., squalida Walk., venustula Walk., 

 bisignata Walk., aliena Walk., submarginalis Walk., bisignata Walk., (bis) obliqua Walk.) (42 f, g). Fore- 

 wing pale grey with a faint rufous tinge, and more or less entirely suffused with reddish brown; inner and 

 outer lines obscure, blackish and double, paler towards inner margin; submarginal line whitish, irregularly 

 wavy-dentate, starting from a grey apical spot, preceded by a dark blotch between veins 3 and 5; orbicu- 

 lar stigma an oblique oval, pale with brown centre and blackish outline, separated from the reniform by, 

 and sometimes merged in, a pale streak running obliquely from costa to lower end of cell; the reniform 

 filled up with black in a white annulus; a series of black marginal spots, often surrounded by grey scales; 

 hindwing white, the veins terminally, and the costal and inner margins brown; terminal line thick and 

 black. In the $ the forewing is more uniform in coloration, dull dark grey, with no trace of the pale 

 oblique streak across the cell, the reniform stigma and the dark blotch on veins 3 to 5 alone showing dark; 

 ab. effeminata ab. nov. is a rare form of the $ which mimics the coloration of the $, being uniformly dark effeminata. 

 brown without the pale oblique streak. This wide-spread species, occurring throughout Africa, India, and 

 the islands to New Guinea and Australia is recorded from Shanghai, Central China. Larva dark brown 

 marbled with whitish; dorsal line wdiite-edged; subdorsal and lateral lines white; head redbrown; the 

 ventral surface greenish; feeding on cereals; said to be injurious to rice in the Punjab. 



70. Genus: Tiaphygnia Guen. 



Differs from Spodopterk in the tibiae being only slightly hairy; the antennae of the <$ are ciliated, 

 sometimes with minute serrations. Larva as in the previous genus, on cereals and low growing plants, 

 sometimes harmful to the crops. Type Laphygma exigua Hbn. 



L. apertura Walk. (= synstictis Hmps.) (48 c) Forewing ochreous grey suffused with dark broAvn and apertura. 

 dusted with black; the inner and outer lines double, filled in with ochreous, conversely lunulate-dentate; 

 submarginal line formed of ochreous striae internally edged by small dentate black marks; a row of black 

 spots along termen preceded by ochreous striae; claviform stigma blackish; orbicular and reniform ochreous 

 outlined with black, with pale brown centres; the orbicular narrow and oblique, its lower extremity pro- 

 duced and confluent with reniform, which is large, conversely oblique, and produced above; a short streak 

 of ochreous scales at the base of vein 2; hindwing pure white, with some dark points on upper part of 

 termen; abdomen whitish, with the basal crest blackish. This South Indian insect is recorded from 

 Ichang, Central China. Larva jet-black, the segmental incisions creamy white, the prothorax with 3 yellow 

 spots; dorsal line formed of disconnected pale yellow spots; subdorsal line of pale yellow markings; spira- 

 cular pale yellow; ventral surface glaucous green dotted with white; anus edged with orange; head with 

 numerous black hairs, black with an orange spot; feeding on Drosera, especially the stems, and pupating 

 in the ground. 



L. exigua Hbn. (= fulgens Hbn.-G., junceti Zell., cycloides Guen., caradrinoides Walk., sebghana Aust., exigua. 

 venosa Btlr.) (48 a) Forewing greyish ochreous, washed with dull yellow and sprinkled with black scales; inner 

 and outer lines double, indistinct, filled in with pale yellowish; a dark waved median shade visible before 

 lower half of outer line; cell dark brown; orbicular stigma pale or bright yellow, round; reniform with a 

 curved brown lunule in centre; submarginal line pale grey; the darker shade preceding it with dark streaks 

 between the veins; terminal spots black; hindwing semihyaline white, with the veins dark brown; all 

 three margins shaded with fuscous; — pygmaea Bmb. is only a small, probably dwarfed, form, with the pygmaea. 

 markings ill-developed. Widely spread through Africa, India, and Australia; in Europe mainly confined 

 to the South; S. Russia, France, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Sicily, and Dalmatia, but also found occasion- 

 ally in Britain and Holland; Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Madeira, the Canaries; Cyprus, Asia Minor, Syria; 

 Japan and Central China. Larva pinkish brown, clotted with black; spiracular line pale ochreous, with 

 dark upper edge; on low-growdng plants, sometimes destructive. 



71. Genus: Atlietis Hbn, 



Tongue developed; frons smooth; palpi upturned, the second segment well-scaled and reaching 

 vertex, the third short; antennae of $ typically ciliated; vestiture hairy; the prothorax only with slight 



