598 NOCTIUIDE. 
Fore wing silvery with golden reflections, the surface being striated, 
irrorated with a few black scales; antemedial line double filled in 
with whitish, oblique, sinuous ; reniform small, oblique elliptical, 
slightly defined by whitish and black scales; postmedial . line 
double filled in with whitish, excurved from costa to vein 4 and 
incurved in submedian fold; a subterminal series of small black 
spots, angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wing 
very pale yellow; cilia white at tips. Underside of both wings 
yellowish white. 
Hab. Navan, Esteourt (Hutchinson), 1 Q, Durban (Leigh), 2 2 
type. Hep. 24 millim, 
Genus PLUSIOCALPE. Type 
lusiocalpe, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 29 (1894) ...... Aocnoneeoadand0o0 Hes pallidu: 
Proboscis fully developed ;_ palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 
vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 8rd rather long; frons smooth ; 
eyes large, round; antenne of male with fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed 
alinost entirely with seales and without crests; fore and hind tibie slightly 
fringed with hair, the mid tibix fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal 
crests on basal segments, Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 
evenly curved and not crenulate, tle tornus with scale-tooth, the inner margin 
with lobe before middle; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 
angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. 
Hind wing with veins. 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just 
above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 
base only. 
Sect. I. Hind wing of male with thick fringe of long hair on inner area 
above. 
7015. Plusiocalpe sericina. 
Metaptya sericina, Mab. Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 780. 
3. Head and tegule ochreous white; thorax white faintly 
tinged with purplish brown and irrorated with a few brown scales ; 
pectus and legs ochreous white ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally 
suffused with fuscous brown except at base and extremity. Fore 
Fig, 239.—Plusiocalpe sericina, Sd. } 
wing silky ochreous white tinged with brown and sparsely irrorated 
with black scales ; the ante- and postmedial lines represented by 
white striae at inner margin, the former with a streak of white 
