PLUSllD.lZ. 73 



PLUSIA PLACIDA (Pr.AiE l.JI, Fir,. 10). 



Forewing pale \aolaceous greyish-brown, with a pale greyish-white siil)l)a.sal costal 

 transverse streak, an inwardly oblique antemedial line from below the cell, and a ])nst- 

 medial oblique line ; a recurved line extends below the cell from the outer to the inner 

 line ; the outer border of the wing is traversed by a waved blackish snbmarginal 

 fascia ; the lower area between the transverse lines from the recurved line, and also 

 the borders of the submarginal fascia with jenescent reflections ; an indistinct pale 

 lined orbicular and reniform mark ; a whitish marginal line extends from the apex to 

 the middle of the posterior margin : hindwing greyish-brown. Body, palpi, and le"-s 

 pale violaceous grej'ish-brown. 



Expanse Ito inch. 



PLUSIA LECTULA (Plate 146, Fig. 2). 

 Prodenia lectiila, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1679 (1858), ^J. 

 Fhisia Kalitura, Felder et Rogenh. Nov. Voy. Lep. iv. pi. 110, fig. 24 (1874). 



Forewing pnrplish greyish-brown ; some short silvery purplish- white transverse 

 streaks with blackish borders at the base of the costa and below base of the cell, a 

 pnrplish- white streak from base of cell, and a more distinct silvery-white bordered 

 lengthened lanceolate streak extending obliquely below the lower median vein, on 

 which is a black dot at its upper basal end ; reniform mark blackish, with a silvery- 

 white lunule on its outer side ; across the disc is a purple-brown zigzag lunular line 

 with purple-white borders, beyond which is a submarginal row of blackish dentate 

 spots bordered by a silvery-white sinuous line, and along the exterior margin are two 

 slender purple-white antecihary lines : hindwing pale cinereous, with broad brownish 

 marginal border. Thorax and dorsal crests purplish-brown with purphsh-white 

 streaks; abdomen cinereous; head, palpi, and legs brown. 



Expanse 1 to l~ inch. 



PLUSIA DISPELLENS. 



Pliisia dispellens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet, B. M. xxxiii. p. 838 (1865). 



" Female. Cinereous : forewings with a short black basal streak, and with two 

 very broad cixpreous-brown bands, which converge hindward; first band whitish- 

 bordered, abbreviated hindward ; second irregular, with some blackish dots on its 

 exterior side, interrupted hindward ; a whitish oblong patch between the bands, 

 straightened in the middle, its fore part containing the reniform mark, its hind part 

 forked ; marginal dots black : hindwings pale cupreous-brown. Head, thorax, and 

 underside brownish ; palpi ascending, densely tufted to their tips ; fore tibise densely 

 tufted. 



"Expanse 14 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the Collection of Mr. E. L. Layard. 



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