204 GROTE & ROBINSON. 



PLUSIA, Ochsen. 

 Plusia mappa, n. s. 



% . — Head and thorax rosy brown, as are the legs, abdominal tufts 

 above and the abdomen laterally and towards the anus; elsewhere the 

 body squamation is dull smoky testaceous. 



Primaries with the costa a little depressed, apices roundedly promi- 

 nent, external margin full and rounded. Anterior wings purple rosy 

 with transverse shades of olivaceous brown and blackish edging the 

 ordinary lines. Basal line golden, narrow, edged with black inferiorly. 

 Transverse anterior arcuate below median nervure, edged with dark 

 brown shades with a very fliint aureate hue. Median space wide, pur- 

 ple rosy, shaded with brown which becomes aureate inferiorly above 

 the submedian fold. Orbicular spot evident, ovate, narrow, outwardly 

 oblique, with a brown center and narrow black annulus relieved by 

 an outer pale rosy ringed shade. Beneath this and below the median 

 nervure is a prominent, bright golden V-shaped mark, very narrowly 

 edged with black; the space included by the limbs is yellowish. Be- 

 yond this and below the fourth m. nervule is a moderate, subspherical 

 brilliant golden spot. The blackish median shade arises above this on 

 costa, and is dentate and irregular, most prominent on the discal cell. 

 The reniform spot is faint, situate at the extremity of the discal cell 

 and placed opposedly, as regards the direction of its position, to the or- 

 bicular from which it is widely separate. It is distinctly and straightly 

 edged with a black shade outwardly where it is medially indentate, the 

 dentation formed by the very narrow annulus which is here aureate. 

 A single aureate dot at the inner lower angle of the spot on m. nervure. 

 Centrally the reniform is roseate. The costa shows pale shade dots 

 from one of which above the reniform the prominent transverse pos- 

 terior line emanates; this is pale, distinctly margined on either side 

 with olivaceous blackish or brownish shades, runs narrowly outwardly 

 along costal edge, thence downwardly over the nervules, very minutely 

 dentate on first median, running inwardly at fourth median where it is 

 prominently inwardly dentate opposite the subspherical golden spot of 

 the median space, thence running outwardly again it is more feebly 

 dentate on the submedian fold whence it proceeds straightly and shortly 

 to internal margin. It is followed by the clear roseate coincident sub- 

 terminal space which forms a rather narrow shade band, being invaded 

 by the dark, broad and diffuse shade preceding the subterminal line. 

 This latter is narrow, subsinuate, twice outwardly acutely but not promi- 

 nently dentate on the interspaces between the second and fourth me- 

 dian nervules. Here the line is preceded and followed by a very ap- 



