248 NOCTUTDJE. 



claviform black ; an indistinct lunulate postinedial line excurved 

 beyond cell ; a waved submarginal line with black streaks before 



Fig. 139. — Prodenia littoralis, $ . \. 



it; cilia with pale streaks through them. Hind wing opalescent 

 and semihyaline white, with dark marginal line. 



Larva pale violet-brown, with a subdorsal series of narrow 

 yellow spots with black lunules above them ; a lateral series of 

 purplish-black spots centred by a white dot ; a sublateral white 

 line. Food-plant Lantana. 



Hah. Mediterranean subregion and throughout the tropical 

 and subtropical zones of the Old World. Exp. 30-45 millim. 



1830. Prodenia minima, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 410. 



cJ . Brownish white, irr orated with dark scales. Fore wing with 

 some dark marks on the indistinct subbasal line ; the antemedial 

 waved line interrupted and with the large dark claviform stigma con- 

 joined to it, beyond which is an oblique pale fascia from the median 

 nervure ; the orbicular and reniform on a diffused dark triangular 

 patch, the former a w 7 hite speck, the latter quadrate ; the post- 

 medial and submarginal lines indistinctly lunulate, the latter 

 obsolete from the costa to vein 5 ; a marginal series of dark spots. 

 Hind wing pure white. 



Hah. Hydrabad, Sind. Esop. 22 millim. 



Genus SPODOPTERA. 

 Spodoptera, Guen. Noct. i, p. 153 (1852). 



Type, S. mauritia, Boisd. 



Range. W. Indies ; N. & S. America ; Africa ; 1ST. China and 

 throughout the Oriental and Australian regions. 



Differs from Prodenia in having immensely developed tufts of 

 hair on the fore tibiae ; cilia slightly crenulate ; antennae almost 

 simple. 



1831. Spodoptera maiiritia, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag., Lip. p. 92. 

 Spodoptera nuhes, Guen. Noct. i, p. 155 ; C. 8f S. no. 2121. 

 Spodoptera filiurn, Guen. Noct. i, p. 155. 

 Prodenia infecta, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 196 ; Butl. III. Het. vi, pi. 109, 



fig. 8. 

 Prodenia insignata, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 197. 



