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parallel lines, between wliicli is an oblique whitish patch partly enclosing the orbicular spot, 
which is stramineous and outlined in black ; the reniform spot large and blackish, excepting 
its anterior border, which is pale stramineous ; area between the outer line of the central 
belt and the extei'nal angle varied with more or less confluent white lunules ; an irregular 
submarginal white line ; a blackish patch upon the median interspaces between the outer line 
of the central belt and the submarginal line ; a marginal series of black spots ; fringe pale 
brown, traversed by two blackish lines : secondaries pearly white ; veins brownish ; costal and 
external margins with a narrow bronze-brown border : thorax dark brown ; abdomen whity 
brown. Primaries below sericeous whity brown ; costa spotted with lake-brown : secondaries 
with the borders paler than above ; black marginal dots between the veins : body below 
reddish brown. Expanse of wings 34—38 millim. 
North India, South India, Siam, Formosa. 
Three of Mr. Walker's types were received in the same collection from North India. 
The type of P. infecta is paler, and that of P. permunda darker, than the others ; but in 
pattern there is no variation whatever of the least importance. 
Prodenia glaucistriga. (Plate CIX. fig. 9.) 
(J. Prodenia glaucistriga, Walker, Cat. Lep. Hut. ix. p. 197. n. 15 (1856). 
Exact pattern of P. retina of Europe, of which it is probably a well-developed and 
brightly coloured form ; it differs chiefly in its slightly superior size and the more clearly 
defined whiter markings on the primaries ; the apical oblique dash is also of a bluer, more 
ash-coloured, tint. Expanse of wings 37-42 millim. 
North India, Canara, Formosa. 
As P. retina (with which P. littoralis from Madagascar is identical) occurs in Nepal, and 
probably throughout India and Africa, in Formosa, &c., there is no reason M4iy P. glauci- 
striga should not prove to be a variety, but for the fact that specimens of this form have 
not been received from Africa. It agrees very closely with P. commelince of the New World, 
but the slight characters which distinguish the two appear to be constant. 
NOCTUID^. 
EPILECTA, Hubn. 
Epilecta semiherMda. (Plate CX. fig. 1.) 
Triphaena semiherbida, Walker, Cat. Lej)- Het, xi. p. 743 (1857). 
Primaries above purplish brown ; the basal third, costal border, centre of interno- 
median area, the two ordinary central and the submarginal stripes pale yellowish green ; the 
subbasal, ordinary, and submarginal stripes outlined in blackish, and the discoidal spots in 
