PLUSIA, 149 



submarginal golden-yellow lines; an obli(|ue orbieular spot, a contiguous mark below it, and 

 a renif'orm mark, eacli formed by a golden-yellow line : hind wing and body pale brown. 



Expanse If incli. 



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



Plusia paxnos.v, n. sp. 



Fore wing purple greyish-brown : with a transverse subbasal and discal brown-bordered 

 pale straight line, the interdiscal space below the cell glossy cupreous-brown, containing a 

 white loo]i and unattached pendent round spot; orbicular spot minute, bordered with dark 

 brown and wliite, reniform spot broken, dark brown, lower portion wliite-cirded, upper portion 

 indistinct : a short streak at base of the costa, a cupreous-brown waved fascia below the apex, 

 a marginal greyish line terminating in a triangular spot at posterior angle : himl wing and 

 abdomen pale cupreous-brown. Thorax, palpi, and legs purple-grey-brown. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Uab. Darjiling; Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore, 



Plusia coxfusa, n. sp. 



Fore wing glossy greyish-purple-brown. with a transverse basal, subbasal, and a discal 

 waved slender black-bordered pale line, the interdiscal area clouded witli darker brown ; a 

 submarginal darker brown waved zigzag fascia, a marginal row of slender black points ; 

 orbicular mark pale, oblique, reniform mark indistinct ; a golden-yellow obli(iue loop with 

 an attached pendent spot beneatli the cell : hind wing brown, paler at tlie base. Thorax 

 purple-brown, grey-speckled ; abdomen brown ; palpi and legs brown ; tarsi with pale bands. 

 Near to P. permissa. 



Expanse Ih inch. 



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



Plusia argtrosigna, n. sp. 



Fore wing glossy purplish ochreous-brown ; a lower subbasal oblique pale line and a 

 less distinct discal line, tlie interdiscal area and base of costa and a zigzag submarginal 

 fascia dark olivaceoiis ochreous-brown, discal silvery-white lobcd mark curved and entire, 

 and with a slight streak above it : hind wing pale brown, with indistinct paler transverse 

 fascia. Thorax dark ochreous-brown, grey-speckled, front tinged with red ; abdomen 

 brownish-ochreous ; palpi and legs above dark ochreous-brown. 



Expanse If inch. 



Ifab. Kashmir (Sind Valley) ; Dalhousie. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Allied to P. iota and to P. v-aurcum. Differs in the brown colour of the fore wings, 

 and in the discal mark being entirely white and unbroken. 



