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the end ; submedian and internal vein slightly curved. Body stout, thorax and 

 abdomen crested ; palpi rather long, second joint ascending to level of the vertex, 

 very laxly squamose beneath, third joint long, cylindrical, half length of the second ; 

 antennce simple ; legs stout, pilose, spurs long. {A. triplasia.) 



ABROSTOLA TRANSFIXA. 



Ahrostola transjixa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xii. p. 884 (1857); xv. p. 1783 (18,58). 



Forewing dark greyish-brown, with some transverse basal costal darker brown 

 curved lines, a subbasal waved duplex hue with purplish centre, and a similar discal 

 sinuous duplex line, followed by a submarginal zigzag slender black line and a mar- 

 ginal denticulated line tipt with white dots ; an elongated outwardly oblique slender 

 silvery-white lined orbicular mark, and a black lined reniform mark ; from tlie 

 orbicular mark an elongated pale silvery-white lined black-bordered streak extends 

 to the discal line below the lower median vein : hindwing and abdomen cinereous- 

 brown, marginal border darkest. Thoi-ax, head, palpi, and legs dark greyish-brown. 



Expanse If to If inch. 



Genus PLUSIA. 



Plusia, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 2 (1806); Ochsenh. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 89 (1816); Gueiiee, Noct. ii. 



p. 324 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 885. 

 Phytometra (part), Haworth. 

 Campma (part), Lamarck. 



Forewing elongated, costa slightly arched towards the tip, apex pointed and 

 slightly falcate, exterior margin oblique, convex hindward, slightly denticulated, 

 posterior margin recurved ; cell long, extending two-thirds the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, third at one- 

 fourth from base of second, fourth at one-third from base of third, fifth from end of 

 the cell and slightly touching third close to its base : discocellular deeply concave in 

 middle, bent near each end, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close 

 to end of the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing 

 short, exterior margin oblique, convex, slightly denticulated ; cell extending two- 

 fifths the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial 

 from near lower end ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at 

 nearly one-half before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body stout, 

 thorax and abdomen crested ; palpi ascending, laxly clothed with hairy scales in front, 

 second joint reaching to vertex, third joint minute ; antennjB simple ; legs rather long, 

 fore tibiee pilose, middle and hind tibioe with long spurs. {Type, P. chrysitis.) 



