72 THE LEPIDOFTERA OF CEYLON. 



PLUSIA LIMBIRENA (Plate 152, Fig. 5). 

 Plusia limhirena, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 921 (1857). 



Forewiiig purplisli greyish-brown, black speckled, crossed by an indistinct 

 inwardly-oblique subbasal and an antemedial waved slgnder silvery-grey black- 

 bordered line, and a similar discal denticulated line, followed by a submarginal 

 sinuous line, and a marginal lunular line witb a purplish spot on the middle of the 

 margin ; orbicular mark indistinct, outwardly oblique, defined by a pale purple line, 

 reuiform mark less distinct ; below the cell is a brilliant silvery-white ringlet spot 

 and a connected lower oval spot ; the darker parts of the wing cupresceut-brown in 

 some lights : hindwing and abdomen brown, cinereous at the base ; cilia cinereous. 

 Thorax, head, and palpi purplish greyish-brown ; tarsi black, with pale bands. 



Expanse If inch. 



PLUSIA OCHREATA (Plate 151, Fig. 4). 

 Plusia ochreata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxiii. p. 839 (1865). 



Forewing purplish-ferruginous, with cinereous reflections ; exterior border bright 

 cupreous ; crossed by an indistinct brown basal, subbasal, and a discal undulated hne, 

 and a submarginal zigzag line; a long oblique lanceolate silvery-bordered streak 

 extending from the subcostal across the middle of the cell to the discal line : hindwiner 

 and abdomen purplish-cinereous. Thorax ferruginous; palpi and legs pale ferru- 

 ginous-brown. 



Exj)anse 1 inch. 



PLUSIA AGRAMMA (Plate 152, Fig. 3, 3a, larva). 



Pbisia agramma, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 327 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 926. 

 Plusia inchoata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 841 (1865). 



Purpurescent cinereous-brown : forewing with a transverse waved subbasal pale 

 line, an oblique medial, and an angulated discal line ; an intermediate glossy cupreous- 

 brown subbasal fascia below the cell, and along the exterior border, the latter traversed 

 by a blackish zigzag line, the fascite appearing black in some aspects : hindwing and 

 abdomen pale cinereous-brown. 



Expanse 1t*o to ItV inch. 



Larva green, with a few fine dorsal hairs; laterally black spotted, and with some 

 short black pointed spines along the back, which are stoutest on the fifth, sixth, 

 seventh, eighth, and twelfth segments ; a prominent white subdorsal and a lateral 

 waved line. Pupa olive-green, with blackish dorsal streaks. 



"Feeds on Cucurbitacese." {Thivaites.) 



