. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 254 Sect. II. {Kulaphijgma). Antenna^ of male iiuiuitely serrate and fasciculate, 3869. Spodoptera abyssinia. Spodopfera cihi/sMiiia. Guen. Noct. i. p. (;)2). Spodoptera ciliiim; Guen. Noct. i. p. ;)6 (1852) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 259. Caradrina latehrosa. Led. Verb, Ges. Wien. , p. 205, pi. 2. f. 11 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 195. Caradrina orbicularis, Wlk. x. 294 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 323, pi. XX. f. 26. Caradrina praferita, Wlk. x. 294 (1856). Caradrina insi
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 254 Sect. II. {Kulaphijgma). Antenna^ of male iiuiuitely serrate and fasciculate, 3869. Spodoptera abyssinia. Spodopfera cihi/sMiiia. Guen. Noct. i. p. (;)2). Spodoptera ciliiim; Guen. Noct. i. p. ;)6 (1852) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 259. Caradrina latehrosa. Led. Verb, Ges. Wien. , p. 205, pi. 2. f. 11 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 195. Caradrina orbicularis, Wlk. x. 294 (1856) ; Hmpsn. Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 323, pi. XX. f. 26. Caradrina praferita, Wlk. x. 294 (1856). Caradrina insifinata, Wlk. x. 295 (185(V|. Laphygma procedens, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). Agrotis infixa, Wlk. Joiirn. Linn. Soc., Zool. vi. p. ISH (1862). Laphyg77ia obliterans, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 87 (1862). Spodoptera insulsa, Wlk. xxsii. 648 (1865). Laphygma impernata, Wlk. xxxii. 651 (1865). Laphygma retrahens, Wlk. Entom. v. p. 126 (1870). S' Head and thorax ochreous suffused with red-brown ; palpi with black bands on 2nd and 3rd joints near extremity ; Irons witli lateral black bars; tegulae with blaclv medial line; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown. Fore wing greyish suffused with brown ; subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa and cell; antemedial line double filled in with whitish, the inner line indistinct, oblique, waved ; orbicular whitish defined by black and with slight brown centre, oblique elliptical, open below and connected by a streak above median nervure with the reniform which is defined bv black on. Fig. G-i. — Spodnjytera abyssinia, c? inner side, its centre defined by diffused black ; an obliijue dark striga from costa to reniform and waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin, angled inwards in submedian fold ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some pale points with fuscous bet
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