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PSYCHE. 



[Jnnuary 1S94. 



the dark spots thus included bv narrow 

 silvery lines are a subtriangular spot on the 

 costa before the apex, and a subrhomboid 

 spot beyond the end of the cell. The secon- 

 daries are dark fuscous on the upper side. 

 On the underside, the wings are pale fuscous 

 traversed bv broad subinarginal bands of 

 dark fuscous. The primaries have a dark 

 fuscous subquadrate spot beyond the end of 

 the cell. The secondaries are marked on the 

 cell by a black basal ray. widening outwardly, 

 terminating abruptly, and followed by a well 

 defined blackish dot, beyond which is a 

 zigzag incomplete transverse limbal line of 

 dark brown below the enlarged end of the 

 discal rav. There is an incomplete median 

 band of dark brown running parallel to the 

 outer margin, but terminating before it 

 reaches the inner margin. Expanse. 50 mm. 



Plusia, Fabr. 



4. P. mapongua, sp. nov. J. Palpi 

 sootv-gray. Head cinereous; collar brown 

 margined internally with pale cinereous- 

 Patagia, thorax, and abdomen above and 

 below grayish-ochraceous ; the abdominal 

 tufts dark gray. Legs dark gray with the 

 tarsi ringed with whitish. The primaries 

 are dark Vandyke brown on the middle area 

 with the outer and inner margins paler, re- 

 flecting in certain lights a pale' golden-green 

 lustre. There are two silvery dots at the 

 base, one on the costa, and one near the 

 middle of the wing, followed by a narrow 

 irregularly curved transverse basal line of 

 pale flesh color, margined on both sides by 

 dark brown. Beyond this on the median 

 area are two broad silvery spots, the inner- 

 most the larger, subovoid, the outermost 

 smaller and circular. At the point wliere 

 these two silvery spots almost touch, there 

 is a dark brown elongated elliptical spot, 

 which extends upward beyond the end of the 

 cell. At its upper extremity lying on the 

 costa before the apex is a pale flesh colored 

 spot, shading within and without into pale 

 Vandyke brown, and margined on the lower 

 side bv a semi-circular black dash. There 



is a narrow waved transverse limbal and a 

 similar angulated transverse marginal line. 

 The fringes are whitish, spotted with black 

 at the apex and about the middle of the outer 

 margin, and checked with narrow lines of 

 blackish at the tips of the nervules. The 

 secondaries are fuscous with an obscure 

 discal spot just beyond the end of the cell. 

 The fringes are concolorous, slightly lighter 

 at the apex and the anal angle. On the 

 under side the primaries are dark fuscous 

 with the inner margin and a subtriangular 

 spot below the cell whitish. There are a 

 few small white dots on the costa before the 

 apex, and an obscure incomplete transverse 

 limbal band of darker fuscous extending from 

 beyond the middle of the costa toward the 

 middle of the inner margin. The secon- 

 daries have the outer half broadly bordered 

 with dark fuscous, shading into cinereous 

 near the anal angle. There is a distinctly 

 defined discal spot at the end of the cell. 

 Expanse, 27 mm. 



5. P. sicidi/eru, sp. nov. ^. Front, 

 upper side of thorax and abdomen obscure 

 brown ; lower side of abdomen and legs 

 paler brown. The primaries have the middle 

 area clouded with dark blackish brown, 

 which is produced outwardly about the middle 

 of the wing to the margin as a broad blackish 

 ray. This dark tract of color in certain side 

 lights gives a brilliant golden reflection. 

 From the inner margin at the base there 

 extends upwardly a band of silvery tinged 

 with flesh color, which reaches the costa and 

 about the middle sends forth a branch, 

 which extends outwardly and then abruptly 

 downwardly toward the outer angle, termin- 

 ating about the middle of the wing. This 

 band is sickle-shaped. In addition there are 

 some silvery basal markings, an elongated 

 transverse subapical band on the costa, and 

 some spots along the outer margins. The 

 secondaries are uniformly dark fuscous with 

 the fringes paler. On the under side, both 

 wings are dark fuscous with the basal half 

 of the secondaries paler. Expanse. 24 mm. 



