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wings pale brown almost whity-brown on the disc, sprinkled and 
clouded with fuscous brown; two white spots in the cell, the outer 
lunular and smaller than the inner; antemedial line blackish, wavy, 
angled below costa; medial line blackish, sinuous, commencing in a 
blackish triangular mark on the costa; postmedial line blackish, 
wavy, curved round cell, united with outer edge of triangular mark 
on costa; subterminal line blackish, wavy; terminal area fuscous 
brown traversed by a diffuse and sinuous band of the ground colour, 
short black bars between the veins joining black lunules on the 
termen ; fringes fuscous brown marked with paler between the veins. 
Hind wings fuscous grey with two dusky transverse lines, the outer 
one sinuous and most distinct; subterminal line whitish outwardly 
dentate, inwardly diffuse, not distinct towards costa; fringes pale 
brown marked with darker between the veins, proceeded by a series 
of black lunules. Under side pale brown; markings of fore wings as 
on upper side but the terminal area is not darker and the short black 
bars are not distinct except between veins 3 and 5; the transverse 
lines on hind wings are dark brown, the first bluntly angled beyond 
the black discoidal mark, the second is serrated and is followed by a 
brown band which is clouded with blackish about the middle and 
before dorsum. 
Expanse, 35 millim. 
Collection number, 929. 
A male specimen from Kanshirei, June 16th, 1908. 
Mecodina (?) subornata, sp. n. 
3. Head and thorax fuscous brown, the latter mixed with 
darker in front; abdomen whitish brown, heavily powdered with 
fuscous brown except on the anal tuft. Fore wings fuscous brown, 
traces of two whitish dots in the cell; antemedial line blackish, 
indistinct except on costa where it is inwardly edged with white ; 
postmedial line blackish, sinuous and wavy, outwardly pale edged, 
the edge becoming white and diffuse on the costa; medial line 
blackish, almost parallel with the postmedial from cell to dorsum ; 
fringes fuscous brown, variegated with white toward apex and tornus. 
Hind wings fuscous brown, traces of a pale transverse line above 
tornus. Under side pale brown, variegated with darker brown; on 
the fore wings the costa is paler, and the terminal area from tornus 
to a black spot at middle whitish ; on the hind wings, the basal and 
terminal thirds are whitish ; all the wings have dark transverse lines. 
Expanse 38 millim. 
Collection number, 929a. 
A male specimen from Kanshirei, April 18th, 1906. 
NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
PLUSIA MONETA IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—I have great pleasure in 
reporting the capture in my garden of Plusza moneta; it was taken 
by my son, W. J. Daws, on the evening of July 4th, 1914, and is now 
in my collection. It is a fine female, but by the appearance of the 
