70 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



PLTJSIA CHRYSITINA (Plate 152, Fig. 7). 



Phalmna Noctua chrysitlna, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 21 (1797). 

 Noctua aurifera, Hiibner, Eur. Scbmett. Noct. pi. 98, fig. 463 (1810). 



Plusia aurifera, Tieits. Scbmett. Eur. iii. p. 168 ; Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 335 ; Walker, Catal. Lcp. Het. 

 B. M. xii. p. 892. 

 Forewing purplish ferruginous-brown, with a broad curved metallic golden-yellow 

 angulated band extending from middle of the cell to the apex, which is indistinctly 

 traversed across the disc by a zigzag darker fascia and a few short flecks ; a very 

 indistinct transverse slender pale golden-yellow zigzag subbasal and an antemedial 

 line ; a pale golden-yellow lined orbicular and reniform mark : hind wing pale 

 brownish-cinereous, with cuprescent-brown marginal border. Thorax, head, palpi, 

 and legs brownish-ferruginous, abdomen paler. 

 Expanse Ito to 1 "^ inch. 



Larva bluish-green, with a few short dorsal hairs ; a prominent white lateral 

 line, and slender dorsal lines. Pupa olive-green beneath, dorsally purplish-brown ; 

 stiormata black. 



"Feeds on Coreopsis." (Thwaites.) 



PLUSIA VERTICILLATA (Plate 152, Fig. 6). 



Plusia verticillata, Gueuee, Noct. ii. p. 344 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 923. 



Dark cinereous-brown : forewing with a short transverse subbasal costal slender 

 silvery-white streak, an oblique antemedial line, a less distinct discal angulated hne, 

 which is silvered only at its posterior end, and a slender black zigzag submarginal 

 line ; the borders of the basal streak, the medial interspace, and the exterior border 

 darker coloured and glossy cupreous-ferruginous in some lights ; the antemedial line 

 is continued below the cell and joins a silvery-white ringlet spot with a very con- 

 tiguous oval spot ; a very indistinct silvery-white lined oblique orbicular mark, and 

 a less distinct cuprescent reniform mark : hindwing and abdomen cinereous-brown, 

 with a dusky brown border, crests of abdomen tipt with black and grey. 



Expanse Ijo to ItV inch. 



Larva green, palest along the back ; with indistinct longitudinal lateral and 

 dorsal paler lines. Pupa green, with black dorsal streaks. 



" Feeds on species of Ficus." {Thwaites.) 



PLTJSIA NIGEILUNA (Plate 152, Fig. 2, 2a, larva). 

 Plusia nigriluna, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 931 (1857). 

 Forewing dark purplish-brown ; with a transverse basal, and an antemedial 

 silvery-speckled black-bordered slender waved line, a less defined recurved discal 



