zigzag line, a submarginal sinuous line, and a marginal lunular line ; tte basal, 

 medial, and submarginal dark interspaces glossy cupreous-brown in some aspects : 

 hindwing and abdomen brown ; cilia paler, with darker brown spots. Thorax, head, 

 palpi, and legs dark purplish-brown ; tarsi with pale bands. 



Expanse 1\ inch. 



Larva olive-green, darkest beneath ; with a few short fine dorsal hairs ; the 

 segments spotted with black. Pupa green, with dorsal segmental brown streaks. 



" Feeds on Acalypha." (Thivaitos.) 



PLUSIA SIGN ATA (Plate 152, Fig. 4). 

 Noctua signata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 81 (1793). 



Plusia signata, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 345 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xii. p. 926. 

 Plusia furcifera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 927 (1857). 



Purplish greyish-brown : forewing crossed by a subbasal costal brown-bordered 

 slender golden-yellow streak, an antemedial and a postmedial transverse oblique 

 waved line, followed by a submarginal zigzag line, the intermediate medial area below 

 the cell, and the outer border glossy cupreous-brown in some lights ; three or four 

 small black spots below base of the cell ; reniform mark defined by indistinct black 

 spots and a slender golden-yellow line ; below the cell is a prominent silvery-white 

 ringlet and a contiguous oval spot : hindwing and abdomen cinereous-brown. Crests 

 of thorax and abdomen tipt with black and grey. 



Expanse 1 ^ inch. 



PLUSIA OBTUSISIGNA (Plate 152, Fig. \,la, larva). 

 Plusia obtusisigna. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 930 (1857). 



Forewing purplish-grey, numerously black speckled ; a slender pale pinkish 

 transverse subbasal short waved line, beneath which are some black streaks, an 

 antemedial pale pinkish black-bordered waved line, and a postmedial recurved 

 sinuous hue, followed by a submarginal zigzag line, and a marginal lunular line ; 

 an indistinct white-lined oblique orbicular mark, reniform mark very indistinct; a 

 silvery-white oblique angular streak extending from the orbicular mark between the 

 lower median and submedian vein ; discal area above the silvery-white streak, and 

 also the dark borders of the transverse lines dark glossy purplish-brown in some 

 lights : hindwing cinereous-brown, palest at the base. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs 

 purplish-grey, brown speckled, tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen cinereous-brown. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Larva green, with white longitudinal dorsal lines, subdorsal streaks, and lateral 

 dots, and black dots on the fifth to last segment ; a black streak on side of the head ; 

 front of head and fore legs with black dots, middle feet pale red. Pupa purple-brown. 



