January 1S94. 



rS 1 CHE. 



6. p. Ogovana, sp. nov. i^ . Front, 

 thorax, and abdomen above and below brown- 

 ish-fuscous. The primaries are dark wood- 

 brown, in certain lights reflecting a cupreous 

 sheen. Thevare covered with a multitude of 

 dark brown minute reticulations and are 

 marked bv zigzag sub-basal and limbal trans- 

 verse line. The latter line which is faint and 

 dark brown, is bordered on either side by 

 parallel pale lavender lines, and at the upper 

 extremity near the costa on the inner side is 

 a large triangular dark brown spot, and on the 

 outer margin a broad similarly colored sub- 

 marginal band. Both the large brown spot 

 and the broad brown band in certain lights 

 display a brilliant coppery lustre. There are 

 some light spots on the margin most conspic- 

 uous about the middle. The fringes are pale 

 brown checkered with darker brown, and 

 between the first and second median nervules 

 about the middle of the wing is a minute 

 silvery V-shaped spot. The secondaries on 

 the upper side are dark fuscous, paler at the 

 base, with the margins lighter. On the under 

 side, both wings are pale fuscous with the 

 outer margins broadly blackish. The fringes 

 are pale; there are a few light spots on the 

 costa before the apex, and a distinct discal 

 spot at the end of the cell in the secondaries. 

 Expanse, 30 mm. 



7. P. gorilla, sp. nov. J . Head and 

 thorax dark brown ; abdomen above slightly 

 paler brown ; lower side of thorax and abdo- 

 men fuscous. The primaries are dark sooty- 

 brown, with a coppery reflection beyond the 

 cell on the middle of the outer third of the 

 wing. There are some obscure transverse 

 basal, median, and limbal bands. The sec- 

 ondaries are uniformly dark fuscous. On the 

 under side, both wings are dark fuscous with 

 the outer half fuliginous, shading into cine- 

 reous upon the outer margin. Expanse, 26 

 mm. 



This is one of the most obscurely colored 

 species of the genus. 



Plusiop.\lp.\, gen. nov. 



Allied to Plusia. from which it may be at 

 once distinguished by the palpi, v\hich are 

 long, produced, curving upwardly, and heav- 

 ily clothed with long scales; the last joint is 

 very little shorter than the second joint, 

 flattened laterally, and produced at the apex 

 upon its anterioi' margin as a minute point, 

 or spur. The abdomen on the upper side is 

 conspicuously tufted. The third pair of legs 

 is relatively longer than in Plusia. The 

 primaries are rounded at the apex and are not 

 produced at the outer angle, as in a large 

 majority of the species contained in the genus 

 Plusia. Type Plusiofialpa dic/iora, Holland. 



There is a specimen of this insect unnamed 

 in the British Museum, from Java. 



8. P. dichora, sp. nov. $. Front and 

 collar wood-brown ; upper side of thorax 

 dark brown ; abdomen mouse color with two 

 large dark brown tufts of raised hair on the 

 dorsal line just behind the thorax and a 

 smaller similar tuft of mouse colored hair on 

 the middle of the abdomen. The lower side 

 of the body and legs is slightly paler than the 

 upper side. The primaries are brown with a 

 broad triangular patch on the outer margin 

 reflecting a coppery lustre. There are three 

 or four dark brown, or blackish, basal dashes 

 followed by a pale curved sub-basal line, 

 succeeded by a broad dark brown shade cover- 

 ing the middle of the wing, defined externally 

 and internally by irregular transverse median 

 and transverse limbal lines of pale chocolate- 

 brown. The middle of this shade is marked 

 by a broad longitudinal black ray running 

 from the middle of the wing toward the middle 

 of the outer margin and ornamented near its 

 inner extremity by a fine U-shaped silverv 

 mark, which is succeeded externally by a 

 minute silvery dot. The marginal tract which 

 reflects most distinctly the coppery lustre is 

 defined inwardly by a narrow curved blackish 

 line, curved once just below the apex and 

 then describing a semi-circle, the lower end 



