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macli doubt whether the tlistiuctness of the latter from P. 

 gamma can be maintained. 



Plusia Jessica. 

 Plusia Jessica, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. 



p. 201 (1878) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Hist. iii. p. 22, pi. xlvi. tig. 6 



(1879). 

 Plusia Serena, Butler, I.e. vol. iv. p. 368, n. 51 (1879). 

 Yokohama, Tokio. Types in Coll. B. M. 



Plasia manclarina. 



Plusia mamlarina, Freyer, Neuere Beitrage, v. p. 164, n. 869, 

 pi. 479, fig. 4 (1846). 



Plusia tiipiiiota, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. 

 p. 201 (1878) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. p. 34, pi. xxxi. tig. 10 

 (1878). 



Ural (Freijer). — ? (Zell. coll.). Japan in Coll. B. M. 



Freyer' s figure is so much more like P. gntta than the species 

 recognized as P. maiularina by European Lepidopterists, that I 

 am, even now, not satisfied that their identification of his species 

 is correct : with the colour-blindness common to many entomo- 

 logists, the silver markings on the primaries are rendered as 

 golden ; but, apart from this, the shorter wings and the promi- 

 nence of the dark central belt are far more characteristic of P. 

 gutta than of the P. gamma group : at the same time, if the 

 markings of Freyer' s type really are golden, the species can 

 neither be P. Uipinota nor P. gutta. For the present I accept the 

 identification, on the chance that Freyer's figure may be excep- 

 tionally bad. On the other hand, P. niacrogamma is certainly 

 the same as P. typinota, whether Zeller's specimens of P. man- 

 dariiia are rightly or wrongly named. 



Plusia circumjicxa, 

 Phahena circumjiexa, Linneus, Syst. Nat. xii. p. 841. 

 Plusia patefacta, Walker, Lep. Het. xii. p. 924, n. 78 (1857). 

 Europe, S. Africa, Tenerifie, Nilgiris. In Coll. B. M. 



Plusia Jiagellum. 

 Plusia flag ellum, Walker, Lep. Het. xii. p. 909, n.49 (1857). 

 Plusia vwiiodon, Grote (see Check-List, p. 34, n. 860). 

 United States. In Coll. B. M. 



Plusia oxygramma. 

 Autographia oxyqramma, Hiibner, Geyer Zutr. Exot Schmett. 



p. 37, figs. 769, 770. 

 Abrostola transflxa, Walker, Lep. Het. xii. p. 884, n. 8 (1857). 

 Natal, Ceylon, Java, Japan, China, Nilgiris, Dhamsala, More- 

 ton Bay, and Fiji. In Coll. B. M. 

 Hiibner's locality, " Georgia," probably means Georgia in Asia. 



