946 PROCEEDINdS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxvin. 



PLUSIA FESTUCiE Linnaeus. 

 INE-NO-0-AOMUSHI. 



Food plant: Ort/za sttfirif. 



The larvty are paler than European specimens, being entirely green, 

 with a white su])stigniatal stripe, without the black shadings shown in 

 Hofniann's tigure." 



PLUSIA CHRYSITINA Martyn. 

 TSUMAKIN-GA. 



Food plant: Daiicus carota. 



llampson })riefly describes the larva/' The description applies to 

 the young larva before me, but in the mature ones the markings are 

 moditied. 



The head is green with a heavy black ]>and on the posterior side 



from mouth nearly to vertex. Body ro- 

 bust, more slender before, abdominal feet 

 on joints i>, 10, and 13. Green, a gemi- 

 nate, waved, linear dorsal line; traces of 

 a subdorsal line and a narrow broken 

 FIG. 7.-PI.USIA CHRYSITINA, i.AKVA. «uprastigmatal one. Tu])ercle iii ])lack, 



the rest white. A small l)lack anal plate; 

 cervical shield green. Sette coarse, white, normal. Skin all finely 

 pilose from the produced skin spines. 



Cbcoon a thin white web. Pupa black with brown incisures, a 

 rounded prominence at the end of the wing cases; cremaster hooked. 



NARANGA DIFFUSA Walker. 

 INE-NO-A()MUSHI. 



Food plant: Orysa ^ntlva. 



The eggs are shown laid in straight rows of four or five on a rice 

 blade, the larvae are mounted on young rice plants about four inches 

 high, and the pupa is folded up in a blade. 



The larvie are slender, green, without marks, the tubercles small 

 and concolorous, normal. The feet of joints 7 and 8 are small, the 

 rest well developed. 



Hampson's tigure of the adult is misleading, as it appears to repre- 

 sent a dark moth with pale bands, ^ whereas the species is reallj^ pale 

 with dark bands. 



«Gros Schrnett. Elur., pi. xxxv, fig. 10. 

 ^' Moths of India, II, 1891, p. 573. 

 'Idem, II, 1894, p. ;«;?. 



