654 CATALOGUE OF 



Genus PKODENIA, C. L. H. ix. 196. 

 Prodenia lectula. 

 lectula, Cat. Lep. Het. xv. 1679. 

 a. Canara. Presented by tbe Secretary of the India Board. 



Prodenia reclusa. 



reclusa, Wlk. Journ. Lin. Soc. vi. 185. 



Borneo. 



Prodenia apertura. 



Mas. Cervina ; thorax antice fusco bilineatus, later ibus fuscescenti- 

 bus ; alee anticce cinereo nebulosce, lineis tribus nigris pallido 

 marginatis, 2a angulata, 3a undulata flexa,, annulo discali 

 lituraque postica angulata nigris, tinea longitudinali furcata 

 alba, orbiculari et reniformi magnis pallidis,hac nigro bipunc- 

 tata, ilia nigro marginata ; posticce alba. 



Male, Fawn-colour, mostly whitish beneath. Palpi porrect ; 

 third joint less than halt the length of the second. Thorax brownish 

 on each side, and with two brown lines in front. Abdomen pale 

 testaceous. Fore wings shaded with cinereous about the middle 

 part of the exterior border and about that of the interior border; 

 lines black, pale bordered ; basal line as usual ; interior line angular, 

 contiguous to an elliptical incomplete black riuglet on its outer side, 

 and on its inner side to a black angular mark by the interior border ; 

 exterior line undulating, bent; some black streaks between it and 

 the exterior border; a white longitudinal line which commences at 

 the interior line, is forked near the exterior line, and proceeds along 

 two veins to the border; orbicular and reniform marks large, pale, 

 the former black-bordered, the latter containing two black points. 

 Hind wings white. Length of the body 4^ lines; of the wings 

 10 lines. 



Ceylon. In Mr. Layard's collection. 



Prodenia venustula. 



Mas. Fuscescente-cinerea ; abdomen cinereum, lateribus sub- 

 fasciculatis ; alee antica argenteo-cinerea, fusco nebulosce, lineis 

 quatuor dentatis fuscis, \a 2aque abbreviatis, orbiculari parva 

 fiavescente nigro-marginata, reniformi fusca albido nigroque 

 marginata, lineo, submarginali argenteo-cinerea denticulata ; 

 posticce alb& 9 venis marginem versus lineaque marginali fuscis. 



