148 PLUSIID^. 



lined with brown. Body and abdomen brown ; palpi grey at the tip, third joint with a 

 brown band. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Huh. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Standinger. 



A larger insect than C. guUiventris, with broader transverse alternate bands. 



Gcuiis VARNIA, Walker. 



Varnia fenestrata. 

 Varnici fenestrata, Moore, P. Z. S. 18S1, p. 37C. 



Deep dull chocolate-red, washed with chalybeate-grey, marked with very indistinct 

 blackish confluent strigsc ; fore wing with transverse very indistinct black lines, those on the 

 basal half waved, the cliscal and subapical lines being oblique, straight, and joined together 

 on the costa, the interdiscal space bordering these two lines brighter red ; some pale yellow 

 spots on the costal edge : hind wing with a large irregular quadrate semidiaphanous white 

 discocellular spot, and some contiguous pale yellow streaks. Body with red dorsal streaks ; 

 palpi black laterally. 



Expanse 1-^ inch. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Standinger. 



Family P L U S I I D ^. 



Genus ABROSTOLA, Ochs. 

 Abrostola anophioides, n. sp. 



Fore wing umber-brown, basal area and exterior border greyish ochreous-brown ; crossed 

 by an antemedial and a postmedial narrow black waved line, both outwardly margined by a 

 pale-bordered brown line, the postmedial line sinuous and paler at the anterior end ; a black- 

 lined broad orbicular and reniform marks, below which is a short streak and a bifid mark ; 

 outer border with waved pale-bordered brown fascia3 ; hind wing pale browuish-white, with 

 broad brown marginal band in male, and more uniformly brown in female. Body dark 

 brown ; crest and abdominal tufts pale ochreous-brown ; fore and middle legs dark brown. 



Expanse, 6 If, ? If inch. 



Hah. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Nearest allied to A. ascle]^)iadis. 



Geuus PLUS I A, Ochs. 



PlUSIA reticulata, 11. sp. 



Fore wing dark cupreous-brown, brightest on exterior border ; washed with purplish 

 chalybeate-grey, crossed by a very slender waved basal, subbasal, a sinuous discal, and two 



