450 NOCTUIDiE. 



shade be^vond It; orbicular defined by red-brown, round, an elliptical 

 spot defined by red-brown below it ; reniform defined b}^ red-brown, 

 narrow, placed on a red-brown medial shade which below the cell 

 is ajiproximated to the postniedlal red-brown line, which is strongly 

 excurved below costa, then oblique, slightly incurved to vein 2, 

 then slightly excurved, defined on outer side b}' a pinkish shade 

 arising from apex and extending to before it on costal area ; sub- 

 terminal line red-brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and 

 ending at tornus ; a tine red-brown terminal line defined on inner 

 side by a pink line to vein 4. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 cu|3reous brown ; a slight oblique brow-n postmedial line defined on 

 outer side by whitish ; a fine brown tenninal line defined on inner 

 side by whitish to vein 2 ; the miderside white faintly tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with red-brown, indistinct diffused postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. 



Ilah. U.S.A., California (D'UrLan), 1 d type. i:xj). 40millim. 



Genus PLUSIDIA. 



Type. 

 Plusidia, Butf. 111. Het. B. M. iii. p. 27 (1879) chciranihi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; j^alpi iipturneci, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and rather broadly scaled in front, the 3rd ratlier long ; frous smooth, 

 ■with tuft of bail- ; eyes large, round, overluing by long cilia ; antenuK of male 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the patagia dilated 

 wfith scales at extremities, the metatliorax with large spreading crest; fore 

 tibiix; broadly fringed with hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibiae smoothly 

 scaled; abdomen witli dorsal crests on basal segments, tlie cresis on 1st and 

 3rd segments large. Fore wing with tlio apex rounded, the ternien eveidy 

 curved and not crennlate ; a small scale-tooth at tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell; (5 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about lialf tlic lenglh 

 of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from well above angle; 

 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell i:ear base only. 



8273. Plusidia cheiranthi. 



Koctua chciramhi,Tiiusch. Mem. Mosc. ii. p. 322, pi. 20. f. 6 (1809) : Friv. 



Tudom. Akad. Evkon. xi. iv. pp. 53, 160, pi. 7. f . 6 ; Mill. Iconcs, iii. 



p. 4:^9, pl. 13(). ff. 1-3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 23(i. 

 PlH.<ia euycnia, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1841, i. p. 32, pl. 3. if. 3, 4; ITerr.-Scbaff. 



Eur. Selimett., Noct. f. 207 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. p. 83, pl. 532. f. 2. 

 Tliisidia ahrosioloides, Bull. 111. Het. B.M. iii. p. 28, pl. 47. f. 5 (1879). 



Head and thorax pale red-brown ; antennae with the shaft white 

 towards base ; ])ali)i deeper red-brown ; tegulse with white tijis ; 

 ])atagia with oblicpie white line at middle, the ti])s and dorsal crest 

 cliocolate-brown with white tips; fore tibiae chocolate-brown, the 

 tarsi whitish ; abdomen \ya\g red-brown, the crests chocolate-brown 

 ti])ped with white. Fore wing ])ale pinkish, the veins darker, the 

 medial area striated with brown, the costal and terminal areas 

 slightly irrorated with black; subbasal line black defined on each 



