432 Sir G. F. Hampsou on 



brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a brown 

 discoidal lunule and faint subterminal shade. 



Hab. Transvaal, White R. {Cooke), 1 ?; Natal, Durban 

 (Btll-Marley), 1 % type. Exp. 34 mm. 



Nearest to P. aranea, Hmpsn. 



Plusia argyrodonta, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-white ; abdo- 

 men ochreous. Fore wing grey suffused with cupreous 

 brown and slightly striated with black ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by double curved black strise from costa and oblique 

 white striga from cell defined on each side by black, rather 

 diffused on outer side ; antemedial line double, black filled 

 in with whitish, obsolete on costal half and oblique from cell 

 to inner margin ; the stigma below the cell oblique V-shaped, 

 silvery white filled in with brownish white, its inner arm 

 sinuous ; reniform defined at Mdes by silvery white and black, 

 constricted at middle and slightly angled inwards above 

 median nervure; postmedial line double, filled in with 

 whitish, oblique from costa to submedian fold, then bent 

 outwards, somewhat dentate towards costa ; subterminal line 

 slight, whitish, defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold and angled outwards below 

 veins 4 and 3 ; a faint whitish line before termen and fine 

 black terminal line ; cilia white, mixed with brown at tips. 

 Hind wing pure white ; a fine brown terminal line ; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with brown, 

 a discoidal point and postmedial series of minute streaks on 

 the veins. 



Bab. Natal, Maritzburg, 1 <$ type. Exp. 40 mm. 



Allied to P. luvendula, Hmpsn. 



Plusia clarci, sp. n. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with 

 grey-white; tegulse with slight white line near base and 

 white tips. Fore wing pale grey largely suffused with 

 cupreous brown, especially at middle of medial area and 

 beyond the postmedial line, and sparsely irrorated with dark 

 brown ; subbasal line silvery white, straight, from costa to 

 vein 1, a patch of cupreous brown suffusion beyond it; ante- 

 medial line represented by an oblique silvery-white striga 

 from costa and obliquely curved line from cell to inner margin 

 defined on each side slightly by dark brown ; a small silver 

 U-shaped stigma filled in with grey below the cell towards 

 extremity, with a small rather triangular silver spot obliquely 



