. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 254 xocttjid-t:. Sect. IT. {Eiilajyhijgma). Antennte of male minutely sen-ate and fasoiciilate, 3869. Spodoptera abyssinia. Spodoptera ahi/ssinia. Gnen. Noct. i. p. 15-1 (1852). Spodoptera cilium, Guen. Noct. i. p. 156 (1852) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 259. Caradrina latebrosa, Led. Verb, Ges. Wien. 1855, 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 prmterita, Wlk. x. 294 (1856). Caradrina insignata, Wlk.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 254 xocttjid-t:. Sect. IT. {Eiilajyhijgma). Antennte of male minutely sen-ate and fasoiciilate, 3869. Spodoptera abyssinia. Spodoptera ahi/ssinia. Gnen. Noct. i. p. 15-1 (1852). Spodoptera cilium, Guen. Noct. i. p. 156 (1852) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 259. Caradrina latebrosa, Led. Verb, Ges. Wien. 1855, 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 prmterita, Wlk. x. 294 (1856). Caradrina insignata, Wlk. x. 295 (1856). Laphygma 'procedens, Wlk. xi. 721 (1857). Agroiis infixa., Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vi. p. 186 (1862). Laphygma obliterans, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) i. p. 87 (1862). Spodoptera insulsa, Wlk. xxxii. 648 (1865). Laphi/gma imperuiata, Wlk. xxxii. 651 (1865). La/phygma 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 ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegnlse with black medial line ; tarsi black ringed with white; abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown. Pore 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 reuiform which is defined by black on. Fig. 64. — Spod'Op)tera abyssinia, cJ. \. inner side, its centre defined by diffused black ; an oblique 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 whitisb, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some pale points with fuscous between th
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