PLOTHEIA. — HYBLJEA. 371 



Larva brownish ochreous, with a dorsal series of slender erect 

 black hairs w T hich are very long and with spatulate ends at anterior 

 and posterior extremities ; lateral series of white hairs ; a subdorsal 

 black-spotted green band from 5th to 10th somites ; dorsal black 

 spots on 2nd to 5th and 11th somites. 



Hal. Ceylon. Exp. 20 millim. 



2202. Plotheia rabdota, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii, p. 88, pi. 146, fig. 4. 



2 . Head and thorax pale brown. Fore wing pale brown, the 

 inner margin darker ; blackish streaks below the median nervure 

 and from the upper angle of cell to apex and from lower angle to 

 centre of outer margin ; a dark patch at outer angle and series of 

 marginal specks. Hind wing whitish ; the outer margin very 

 slightly suffused with fuscous. 



Bab. Nilgiris. Exp. 26 millim. 



2203c Plotheia metaspilella, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1746. 



Head and thorax grey ; abdomen brownish. Fore wing grey ; 

 traces of a waved antemedial line ; an indistinct waved double 

 medial line sending a dark spur outwards in the interno-median 

 interspace to the indistinct curved and waved postmedial line ; a 

 dark speck at end of cell ; a series of dark submarginal specks. 

 Hind wing white, suffused with fuscous in the male, entirely 

 fuscous in the female. 



Bab. Ganjam ; Nilgiris. Exp., tf 23, $ 25 millim. 



Grenus HYBL^IA. 

 Hyblsea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 127 (1794). 



Type, H. puera. Cram. 



Range. Throughout the tropical and subtropical zones ; K". China ; 

 Japan. 



Head very small ; palpi porrect and rostriform ; antennae 

 minutely ciliated in male ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; 

 tibiae clothed with long hair and without spines. Fore wing with 

 the costa arched near base, the inner margin lobed ; vein 1 a strong 

 and bent down to near centre of inner margin ; the cell open ; 

 veins 6, 7, 8, 9 from close to angle of cell. Hind wing with the 

 cell open ; vein 8 anastomosing with 7 to near middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the outer margin not excised 

 below apex and evenly curved. 



2204. Hyblsea puera, Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 103, figs, D, E ; C. $ S. 

 no. 2232 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 154, figs. 2. 2 a (larva). 

 Noctua saga, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii, p. 137. 

 Noctua unxia, Biibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. fig. 513. 

 Heliothis apricans, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag. p. 98, pi. 15, fig. 7. 



Head and thorax greyish red-brown ; abdomen black-brown 



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