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PSYCHE. 



[January 1S94. 



of which terminates a little before the outer 

 angle. The fringes are pale brown minutely 

 checkered with dark brown. The secondaries 

 are pale fuscous, marked by an obscure 

 incomplete transverse median band. On the 

 under side both wings are fuscous; the prim- 

 aries have the costa pale ochraceous sprinkled 

 with minute brown dots ; both wings have the 

 outer margins pale cinereous ; both are crossed 

 by a broad submarginal blackish band, irreg- 

 ularly angulated externally, defined internally 

 by a broad and almost straight dark brown 

 line ; both wings have a discal dot at the end 

 of the cell. Expanse, 37 mm. 



Plusiotricha, gen. nov. 



Allied to Plusia. The palpi are slightly 

 itiore prominent than in Plusia; the third 

 joint stouter. The antennae are filiform, 

 nearly as long as the costa of the primaries. 

 The abdomen has enormously developed 

 hair3' brushes located laterally upon the pos- 

 terior segments extending backwardly and 

 outwardly and appressed at their extremities 

 to the very long widely divergent brushes of 

 hair-like scales which clothe the outer margins 

 of the claspers. The legs have the tibiae of 

 the third pair armed with long and delicate 

 spurs as in Plusia and densely clothed with 

 hair-like scales. The primaries have thecosta 

 nearly straight, the apex produced, slightly 

 rounded ; the exterior margin and outer angle 

 evenly rounded and the inner margin straight. 

 The secondaries are subpyriform with the 

 outer margin evenly rounded; the inner 

 margin straight. Type Plusiotricha livida, 

 Holland. 



9. P. livida, s^. nov. J'. The fore wings 

 are obscure Vandyke brown with a cupreous 

 reflection on the outer inargin. There are 

 some black markings at the base. Bevond 

 these is a very faint and somewhat obscure 

 transverse basal line bordered externally near 

 the inner margin with black, coalescing on the 

 cell with an oblique transverse line running 

 from the costa one-third of the distance from 



the base toward the outer angle, which it does 

 not, however, reach. This line at its termin- 

 ation before the outer angle coalesces with a 

 slightly curved limbal transverse line which 

 runs from thecosta two-thirds of the distance 

 from the base to the inner margin before the 

 outer angle, and is traversed throughout its 

 extent by a narrow darker line widest on the 

 costa. The basal portion of the triangular 

 space included between this oblique line and 

 the transverse limbal line is clouded with 

 blackish brown, accentuated on its inner mar- 

 gin by a miijute silvery dot, and near the costa 

 b^' two or three black dots. Beyond the trans- 

 verse limbal line the margin is broadly clouded 

 with dark brown, followed by a fine pale sub- 

 marginal curved line, which is succeeded on 

 the middle of the margin by a triangular black 

 spot, its apex pointing outwardly. The 

 fringes are pale and obscurely checkered with 

 dark brown. The secondaries are uniformly- 

 fuscous with the fringes paler, shading into 

 whitish at the anal angle. On the under side, 

 both wings are obscure fuscous; both are 

 crossed by very broad blackish submarginal 

 bands; both have the margins pale cinereous. 

 There are a few minute ochraceous spots on 

 the costa before the apex. The lateral tufts 

 on the abdomen are tipped with pale ochrace- 

 ous. The anal tufts are black. Expanse, 30 

 mm. 



Deva, Walk.* 



10. D. Africana^ sp. nov.. J. Allied to 

 D. atiyipicta, Moore, from India. Front, 

 collar, patagia, and the upper side of the 

 thorax maroon, with the posterior edge of the 

 collar, and the tips and edges of the patagia 

 marked with purplish gray scales. The 

 upper side of the abdomen is plumbeous. 

 The palpi are ochraceous. The lower side of 

 the thorax and abdomen is whitish. The 



* Mr. Butler refers to this genus upon structural 

 grounds all the species in the eastern hemisphere 

 which have hitherto been referred by authors to the 

 genus Plusiodonta, which lie restricts to the American 

 forms. 



