. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SPODOPTERA. 257 centre tinged with rufous, round, an oblique whitish bar beyond it before the reniform which has a whitish annulus incompletely defined by black and diffused black spot in centre, the area beyond it between veins 5 and 3 suffused Avith fuscous to subterminal line; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, the outer lino indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa;
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SPODOPTERA. 257 centre tinged with rufous, round, an oblique whitish bar beyond it before the reniform which has a whitish annulus incompletely defined by black and diffused black spot in centre, the area beyond it between veins 5 and 3 suffused Avith fuscous to subterminal line; an indistinct oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line double, the outer lino indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa; sub- terminal line white with slight black streaks before it in the inter- spaces, angled outwards at veins 7, 0, 4, 3, and incurved at discal. Fij;. 6G.âSpodopfera mauritia, (^ and subraediau folds, a dark patch beyond it at discal fold and the apex suffused with white; a terminal series of small rather tri- angular black spots slightly defined by whitish on inner side; cilia pale rufous with blackish line near base and chequered with blackish at tips. Hind wing white, the veins, costal and inner areas tinged with brown ; a blackish terminal line ; cilia tinged with brown at apex ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a terminal series of black points from apex to vein 2. 2 . Fore wing paler and more uniform brown without the oblique whitish bar beyond the orbicular. Ab. 1. Fore wing of male like the female. Hab. SiEREi Leone {Morcjan, Foxcroff), 2 cf, 2 5, types hisuf- nata, gratiosa, and triturata; Lagos, Ebute Meta {Boag), 1 5 ; jS". Nigeria, Egga {Dudgeon), 1 J ; S. JS'igeeia, Old Calabar {Crompton), 1 ci", 1 $; Ked Sea (Fletcher), 1 S; Bu. E. Africa, ISTairowa (Betton), 1 JjKikuyu (Cravshag), i $; Masho^aland, Salisbury {Marshall), 2 c?, 1 $; Natal, Durban {Bell-Mai-ley, Leigh), 2 S'-, Madagascar, Betsileo (Coiwrt), 2 J , 1 5; MATJRiTitJji, Curepipe(Z?fi^-e, J'i(ZZoc7i), 1 c? 5 2 $ ty^^e aliena ; C. China, Shanghai, 1 S type ohliqua ; Punj
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