Elydnodes variegata (Leech, 1900)

(Figs. 1–3, 15)

Carea variegata Leech, 1900, Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1900: 524, (Type-locality: West China, Cou-pim-sa, Chia-ting-fu [Holotype: female, BMNH, London]).

References: Hampson, 1913: 400, text fig. 101; Chen, 1982: 239, fig. 1738 ( Elydnodes); 1999: 68, Pl. 1: 23 ( Elydnodes); Poole, 1989: 355 ( Elydnodes); Speidel & Kononenko 1998: 558 ( Elydnodes).

Material examined. Photographs of the syntypes of Elydnodes variegata: 1 male, [China] Chia-Kou-Ho 1700 ft. A.E. Pratt coll./ Leech Coll. 1900-64./ Type / Carea (?) variegata sp.n. Type male / Noctuidae Brit. Mus. Slide No. 15804 male/ gen. prep. Hreblay N: 12027 male; 1 female, Kia-Ting-Ku 1070 ft. Native coll. June & July 1890 / Leech Coll./. Type / Carea (?) variegata sp.n. Type female / Noctuidae Brit. Mus. Slide No. 10195 female (coll. BMNH, London). Other material examined: 2 males, China, Sichuan, 70 km W of Chengdu, leg. Murzin (coll. GR); 1 male, N Vietnam, 1600 m, Mt. Fan-si-pan (Nord), Cha-pa, Primary forest, 22˚17ʹN 103˚44ʹE, 25– 30.iii.1996, leg. V Siniaev & A. Schintlmeister, genit. Prep. 7368GB (coll. GB); 1 male, China, Sichuan, Prov. Qingchenqhou Mt., 70 km W Chengdu, 1500 m, 15–25.iii.2004, leg. loc. collector (coll. AB).

Diagnosis. Adult (Figs. 1, 3). Wingspan: male 37–38 mm, female 43–44 mm. Head and thorax greyish-yellow, ground color of forewing greyish-yellow with olive basal and subbasal fields and greyish suffusion in apical part of costal field; basal line as black dots or line; antemedial line pale, arched basally, shadowed outside by reddishbrown; orbicular traceable, small, indistinct, reniform typical shape, formed by brown border line; medial shadow indistinct; postmedial line angled outward at vein M2, apical angle with oblique reddish-brown dash, following from apex and surrounded with greyish suffusion in costal area and triangular yellowish patch below; subterminal, terminal fields and lines not expressed, veins suffused with whitish; cilia reddish-brown. Hindwing pale, greyishyellow, cilia whitish. In male genitalia (Fig. 15) uncus relatively short, pointed; juxta plate-like, valva gradually tapered apically; harpe moderate, oblique-transverse, flat, pointed. Aedeagus rather short, massive, vesica short, with basal divertilum and two apical diveticula, covered with minute setae. Female not examined.

Distribution (Fig. 26). North India, South West China, Vietnam. Moths have been collected in March and June.