478 NOCTUID.T.. 



middle; pastinedlal line double, red-ln'own filled in with silvevv- 

 white and with minute black lunules on its inner side bulow 

 veins 4 and 3, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold, then somewhat sinuous and slightly excurved at 

 mitldle, a narrow white band beyond it and some small white spots 

 on costa ; subterminal line l)lackish, slightly waved, angled inwards 

 below costa and at discal fold, excurved below vein 7, and 

 angled outwards below veins 4 and 8 ; a terminal series of minute 

 blackish lunules with a narrow wliite band before them traversed 

 by a fine brown line ; cilia whitish with a series of minute di\rk 

 spots. Hind wing white tinged with golden brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with golden brown except towards tornus ; cilia white 

 with small brown spots from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white, 

 the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a 

 slight discoidal lunule and faint diffused postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Rah. S. Fraivce, Leech Coll., Montpellier, Zeller Coll. ; Spatx, 

 Leech Coll., Catalonia, Zeller Coll., Barcelona, Fre}' Coll. ; Corsica ; 

 Sicily; Algeria, Biskra {Eaton), 16; Palestixe ; Puxjab, 

 Kulu {HocJcing), 3 d" , 1 ?, Sultanpur {G. Yoioiff), 1 cf , 2 $ , 

 Almorah {Boys), 1 S , Jubbulpur {F. Butler), 1 c? ; Nepal, 1 $ 

 tvpe c/liar/'s; SlKiiiM ; Bexgal, Pusa {Lefrorj), 1 $. Hxp. 

 30-32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 271 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 13.3, pi. 32. f. 8. 



lleddish brown with oblique dark lateral streaks. Food-plant, 

 Sonch us maritim us. 



8304. Phytometra indicator. 



Vlusia Indicator, Wlk. xii. 022 (1857). 



Plusia //-roscui/i, Giien. Maillard's Reunion, Lcp. p. 42 (1862). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous and some grey- 

 white, the tegulse with slight dark medial line and whitish tips ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous mixed with bi'own, the last 

 with the crests blackish at tips. Fore wing greyish suffused and 

 irrorated with dark chocolate-brown and witli a slight cu2)reous 

 gloss, the medial area with a deep chocolate-brown patch below 

 the cell, the veins with slight pale sti'caks ; subbasal line re])resented 

 by double silvery striie from costa and a small V-sbaped mark 

 below the cell, defined by black-brown ; antemediul line silvery 

 defined by brown, excurved below costa and obliq\iely incin-ved 

 below the cell; orbicular with silverv outline, verv narrow and 

 oblicpie ; a very elongate oblique silvery V-shaped stigma filled in 

 with grey below the cell, its inner arm extending to the antemedial 

 line and its apex almost to the postmedial line ; reniform defined 

 at sides by silvery strise, constricted at middle and with small 

 black spot on its outer edge ; postmedial line silvery defined at 

 sides bv brown, l)ent oiitwards and obsolescent below costa, veiy 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, and oblique below vein 3, a narrow 



