14-15mm. The forewing facies is a very similar combination of green and black to
that of saturalis, but is distinguished by a more clearly defined dark
subbasal patch on the costa, edged by fine, pale lines, themselves often
confined by even finer and darker edging. The pale line defining the basal edge
of this rather square patch is straight, and that on the distal edge has a
strong if irregular loop distad in the dorsal zone posterior to the cell. The
pale submarginal line at the apex is straighter and narrower as in the next
species, with which it also shares a more clear and entire grey line within the
dark margin. The genitalia are as in saturalis. The Sri Lankan species
L. achine
Felder has similar facies to quadralis apart from a diffusely but
distinctly darker transverse zone in the medial area.
Holotype.
DUTCH WEST BORNEO, 85 miles above Pontianak (Simons et Meligan (Sanggan)),
ex Jansen, April 1909, BM noctuid slide 17376.
14-15mm. The forewing facies is a very similar combination of green and black to
that of saturalis, but is distinguished by a more clearly defined dark
subbasal patch on the costa, edged by fine, pale lines, themselves often
confined by even finer and darker edging. The pale line defining the basal edge
of this rather square patch is straight, and that on the distal edge has a
strong if irregular loop distad in the dorsal zone posterior to the cell. The
pale submarginal line at the apex is straighter and narrower as in the next
species, with which it also shares a more clear and entire grey line within the
dark margin. The genitalia are as in saturalis. The Sri Lankan species