486 



noctuid^;. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint short ; 

 antennae quite simple ; thorax and abdomen clothed with long 

 hair, the latter in male with a strongly ridged chitinous rasp on 

 centre of dorsum of penultimate segment, probably played on by 

 the strong chitinous spurs of the hind legs ; tibiae fringed with 

 long hair. 



Sect. I. Mid and hind tibiae spined ; hind wing of male with 

 the inner margin fringed with long hair. 



2470. Arete caerulea, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 41, pi. 13, fig. 10 ; C. $ 8. 

 no. 2342 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, pi. 176, fig. 5 (larva). 



Head black ; thorax vinous red-brown ; pectus white ; abdomen 

 bluish fuscous, with a white tuft in male below the claspers. 



Fig. 272. — Arete ccsrulea, <$ . \. 



Fore wing brown suffused with black, except the costal area as 

 far as the postmedial line and the apical area, and irrorated with 

 a few bluish-white scales ; a short almost basal line ; two black 

 subbasal patches ; an oblique waved antemedial line ; a black spot 

 in cell and two lunules at end of it ; a lunulate postmedial line 

 angled beyond lower end of cell ; traces of a pale waved sub- 

 marginal line. Hind wing black, with a bright blue patch on 

 disk ; a maculate postmedial band and patch near anal angle. 



Larva black ; the somites with transverse dorsal white bars 

 each enclosing a black line ; stigmata ochreous, black-ringed, and 

 with some red round them, situated on white patches, from near 

 the top of each of which springs a white hair ; an interspiracular 

 disconnected white line ; a broader spiracular line with a black 

 spot, from which springs a white hair below each spiracle ; a broad 

 ventral white band ; the 11th somite humped and black above;* 

 the extremity orange above spotted with black ; head and somites 

 with sparse long white hairs. 



Hah, Japan ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; 

 New Hebrides ; New Caledonia ; Fiji. Exp. 84 millim. 



