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Caradrina triturata, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 295. 

 Agrotis transdncta, Wlk. Cat. x, p. 344. 

 Prodenia pernmnda, Wlk. Cat. xi~ p. 723. 

 Laphygma gratiosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 651. 

 Laphygma squalida, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 652. 

 Prodenia vennstula, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 654. 

 Celaena bisignata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 679. 

 Agrotis aliena, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 694. 

 Agrotis submarginalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 699. 

 Agrotis bisignata, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 702. 

 Hadena obliqua, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 736. 



Dark grey-brown with a rusty tinge; abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wing with the subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial double waved, 

 lines indistinct; the orbicular small and ochreous; the reniform 

 blackish ; the submarginal line whitish and irregularly waved ; a 



Us 

 Fig. 140.— Spodoptera mauritia, <$ . \. 



whitish patch is often present between the orbicular and reniform 

 and a dark patch on the central marginal area. Hind wing 

 opalescent and semihyahne white, with a dark marginal line. 



Bab. W. Africa ; Mauritius ; Shanghai ; and throughout the 

 Oriental and Australian regions. Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus CALOGEAMMA. 

 Calogramma, Guen. Noct. i, p. 165 (1852). 



Type, C. j 'estiva, Donov. 



Range. India ; Ceylon ; Australia ; New Caledonia. 



Differs from Euplexia in having no tuft behind collar, but only 

 the tufts on metathorax ; the legs less hairy. Fore wing with 

 the cilia but slightly crenulate. Hind wing with vein 5 curved 

 at origin and arising below the centre of discocellulars, which are 

 highly angled. 



1832. Calogramma f estiva, Donov. Epit. Ins. Neiu Boll. (1805) ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 146, fig. 6 ; C. $ S. no. 2137. 

 Polia picta, Boisd. Voy. de V Astrolabe, Lep. p. 241. 



Ochreous white ; head and thorax suffused with pinkish red. 

 Fore wing with some red on costa at base ; numerous ill-defined 

 waved black lines between base and antemedial line ; the orbicular 

 and claviform consisting of black rings ; a medial pinkish-red 

 band, wide at costa narrowing to inner margin ; the reniform with 

 ochreous and black outlines and red centre ; the postmedial double 



