HETEROCERA. ° 503. 
BASILODES (to follow the genus Calyptis, I. p. 328). 
Basilodes, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. vi. p. 358 (1852); Walker, Cat. xii. p. 936. 
1. Basilodes mina. (Tab. XCVI. fig. 9.) - 
Basilodes mina, Schaus, Trans. Am. Ent, Soc. xxi. p. 239 (1894) *. 
Hab. Mxxico, Jalapa (coll. Schaus1, M. Trujillo). 
Of this species we figure a specimen from Jalapa that has been compared with 
Mr. Schaus’s type. 
PLUSIA (I. p. 328). 
Plusia verruca (I. p. 330). 
To the localities given, add :—Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood). 
Plusia rogationis (I. p. 331). 
To the localities given, add :—Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood). 
11 (a). Plusia brassice. 
Plusia brassice, Riley, Second Ann. Report on the noxious and other Insects of Missouri, p. 110, 
fig. 81 (1870)!; Beth. in Report Ent. Soc. Ontario, 1871, p. 86, fig. 937; J. B. Smith, Cat. 
Noct. Bor.-Am. (Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no, 44) p. 253 (1893) °*. 
Hab. Norta America, Canada and United States generally 3, Missouri ! 2.—Mexico, 
Jalapa (MZ. Trujillo). | 
Mexican specimens agree with others from California in my own collection. 
P. brassice is quite distinct from P. ni, Hiibn., with which Grote appears to have 
confounded it. The larva of this insect is a pest in North America. - 
13 (a). Plusia anda, (Tab. XCVI. fig. 10.) 
Plusia anda, Druce, P. Z. 8. 1890, p. 518 °. 
Primaries very pale pinkish-brown, darker about the middle, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by 
four narrow dark brown lines, which are edged on the outer side with pinkish-white, and with three 
minute black spots at the end of the cell and two small metallic-silvery spots below it ; secondaries silky- 
brown, paler at the base; the fringe of both wings greyish-brown : head, thorax, and abdomen pale 
brown, the antenne pinkish-brown, the palpi and legs dark brown, the anal tuft yellowish-brown. 
Expanse 14 inch. 
Hab. Guaremata, Guatemala city (Rodriguez 1). 
This species is very distinct from any other known to me, its nearest ally being 
P. illustris, Fabr. | 
15 (a). Plusia roxana. (Tab. XCVI.-fig. 11.) _ 
Plusia rozana, Druce, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) xiii. p. 362 (1894) ’. 
Primaries pale greyish-brown, with a pale greyish streak extending from the base of the wing nearest the 
