neic African Mollis. 433 



placed below it; reniform represented by an indistinct brown 

 bar on its inner edge and sonie slight spots on its outer, an 

 oblique brown shade to it from costa ; postmedial line double 

 grey-white filled in with brown, the outer line w r ith silvery 

 outer edge, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, in- 

 curved at discal fold, then slightly sinuous ; a silvery-white 

 subterminal line from above vein 2 to tornus ; a grey-white 

 line just before termen from costa to vein 3, double towards 

 costa ; a terminal series of slight dark brown lunules and 

 striae ; cilia brownish at base, grey- white at tips. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area broadly fuscous 

 brown with a cupreous tinge; cilia white, with a brown line 

 near base; the underside white thickly irrorated with brown, 

 oblique brown medial and postmedial rather indistinct lines, 

 and a broad diffused subterminal shade. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (E. L. Clark), 2 ? type. Exp. 

 38 mm. 



Nearest to P. lavenclula, Hmpsn. 



Plusia microstigma, sp. n. 

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

 grey ; antennae with the shaft ringed with white towards 

 base ; tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing golden bronze- 

 brown thickly irrorated with grey ; traces of an oblique 

 antemedial line ; the stigma below the cell small, oblique, 

 V-shaped, its outer arm and a small spot at its apex silvery 

 white ; orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined by- 

 grey, the former rather oblique elliptical, the latter con- 

 stricted at middle; an oblique indistinct rather diffused line 

 from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, oblique, sinuous ; traces of a dark subterminal 

 line, excurved below vein 7 , angled inwards at discal and 

 submedian folds and outwards below vein 4 ; a series of 

 minute white striae just before termen. Hind wing uniform 

 golden bronze-brown, the cilia with a pale line at base and 

 white tips ; the underside white thickly irrorated with brown, 

 the terminal area broadly fuscous, with some white irroration 

 near termen. 



Hab. Gold Coast (Johnston), 1 ? type. Exp. 26 mm. 



Nearest to P. livida, Holl. 



Plusia phocea, sp. n. 



£ . Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge; 



tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen pale ochreous brown, 



the basal crest and ventral surface grey-brown. Fore wing 



red-brown with a silvery-grey gloss; subbasal line slight, 



