328 ; HETEROCERA. 
1. Calyptis iter. 
Calyptis iter, Guén. Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 8324, Noct. t.12.£.3°; Walk. Cat. xii. pp. 885* & 940°. 
Hab. t Norra America! 2,—Panama, Chiriqui (A2bbe, in mus. Staudinger).—CoLomBIa, 
interior (Wheeler); Brazit, Rio Janeiro?; Amazons, Para ?®, 
A Chiriqui specimen of this fine species is contained in Dr. Staudinger’s collection. 
The examples captured by Mr. Wheeler in Colombia closely resemble Guénée’s figure, 
but they have a beautiful bronzy gloss on the primaries. 
The locality North America is very doubtful, and the species is not included in 
Grote’s Catalogue. 
2. Calyptis idonea. 
Phalena Noctua idonea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 48, t. 811. f. A’. 
Calyptis idonea, Feld. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 110. f. 36, Erkl. der Taf. 110. no. 367. 
Plusia (?) semicuprea, Walk. Cat. xv. p. 1787? 
Basilodes semicuprea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 33%. 
Hab. Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 3000 to 4000 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in 
mus. Staudinger).—CotomBiA, Bogota; Guiana’, Surinam!; Amazons, Rio Jutahi 4, 
Manaos. 
I have no doubt that the insects described by Cramer and Walker belong to one 
and the same species, though Cramer's figure isfar from good. The series of specimens 
before me show a slight variation in colour; and the females are larger and paler than 
the males. Some of the Colombian examples agree perfectly with Felder’s figure of 
C. idonea. Walker omitted Phalena Noctua idonea, Cram., from his Catalogue ; and 
the locality for P. semicuprea was unknown to him 3, 
PLUSIA. 
Plusia, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Europ. iv. p. 89 (1816) ; Treitschke, Schmett, Europ. v. 3, p. 184; 
Guénée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 824; Walker, Cat. xii. p. 885. 
This genus contains a very large number of species, and these are scattered over all 
parts of the globe. Walker in his Catalogue enumerated one hundred and thirty-one as 
belonging to it, and many others have since been recorded. In Central America Plusia 
is represented by many known species, and several very distinct new ones are here 
described. 
1. Plusia coronides, sp.n. (Tab. XXX. fig. 10,) 
Primaries brilliant metallic golden, with the costal margin from the base to the apex edged with a narrow 
greyish-white line, a small spot at the end of the cell, and a short streak on the inner margin at the base, 
pale brown; secondaries uniformly dusky silky-white, the fringe similarly coloured ; the underside of the 
primaries dusky brown, edged along the costal margin and at the apex with yellowish-fawn-colour, that 
of the secondaries silky-white : head, the front of the thorax, and the base of the tegule white, the rest 
