PIITTOMETKA. — PALiEOPLUSIA. 581 



area grey suffused and irrorated with dark brown, a sliglit dark 

 discoidal lunule and waved postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Britain ; France ; S. Germany ; Spain ; Azores, 

 Horta Fayal (J". J. Walker), 1 J ; Madeira (Wol/asfou), 

 Zeller and Leech Colls., 4 J , 3 $ ; Canaries, 1 § , Leech Coll., 

 Teneriffe (Gomez, Wahhiglinm), 3 6 } Ascension (Conri/), 1 2 l 

 St. Helena {WoUaston, GiUesjyie), 7 S ; Gold Coast, Accra 

 {Sir G. Carter), 1 5 ; Abyssinia {Drake-Brockman), 1 6 ; 

 SoMALiLAND (Drake-B rock ))ia ii) , 1 $ ; Br. E. Africa, Nairobi 

 (Ainlrrson), 1 5, Machakos {Crawsliay), 3 6 , Kikuyu {Betton), 



1 $ , Xaitolia {Betton), 1 6 , Eb Urru {Betton), 1 d , N. Kavi- 

 rondo {Xeave), 1^,8. Kavirondo {Xeave), 1 $ , S. Kakumega 

 Forest {JSTeave), 1 6 ; UaANDA, Entebbe {WoUaston), 1 6, 

 lluwenzori {WoUaston), 1 c? ; N. Rhodesia, Serenje Distr. 

 (JVeave), 2 c? ; Mashonaland, Salisbury {MarsliaU), 3 6 ; 

 Rhodesia, Bulawayo {MarsliaU), 2 6 ; Transtaal {Rose), 1 6 , 

 Pretoria {Distant)', 1 d" , 2 $ , Johannesburg {Rose), 1 c? ; Natal, 

 Malvern {Marshall), 1 $ , Durban {Burrows, Bowker, Leigh), 

 5 d", 2 $ ; Basutoland {Graicshay), 1 d ; Cape Colony', Gra- 

 harastown, 1 $ ; Madagascar; Mal-ritius {Rfeiffer, Manders), 



2 5 ; C. China, Shanghai, 2 S ; KLa-SHMIR {Nurse), 1 $ , Kylang 

 {McArthnr), 1 § , Karakorum {Leech), 1 $ , Goorais Valley 

 {Leech), 1 d" , Narkundah {Mc Arthur), 1 $ , Kutie Pass 

 {Mc Arthur), 1 d" ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpin- {G. Young), 1 6 , 

 Dalhousie, 1 6, Kasauli {Barroiv), 2. 6 , 1 $, Thundiani {Yer- 

 lury), 1 $, Campbellpur {Yerhury), 2 d" , 1 $ , Dharmsala 

 {Rocking), 3 d" , 1 ? , Manpuri, 1 6 , xA.llahabad, 1 $ , Wuzeei-ahad 

 {Hearse//), 1 d" ; Sikhim {Dudgeon), 2 6 ; Assam {Badgley), 

 1 §, Siihet {Stainsfbrth), 1 d , Shillong {Parish), 16, 1 $ ; 

 Bengal, Chausa {Betton), 1 d, Pusa {Le/roy), 1 $ ; Madras, 

 Nilgiris {Hampson), 2 d' ; Travancore, Pirnuid (J/rs. Lmray), 



I d , 1 $ ; India, type in Banksian Coll. ; Ceylon, 1 6 ; Java 

 {Horsfield), 2 d , 1 $ ; N. Guinea, Sojeri, 1 6 . JE.vj). 38- 

 48 milliiu. 



Larva. Bluish green with a few short dorsal hairs ; slender 

 dorsal white lines and a prominent lateral line. Food-plant, 

 Coreopsis. 



Genus PAL^OPLUSIA, nov. 



Type, P. venusta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliiug to middle 

 of Irons iind fringed wiLli long hair in front, the 3rcl short ; frons smooth, with 

 large tuft of hair ; eyes large, round, overhung by long cilia ; antenna; of male 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only, the metathorax with large divided 

 crest ; tibia> fringed with rather long hair; abdomen with dorsal ridges of hair 

 on basal segments but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crennlate ; veins 3 and 5 froui near angle of 

 cell ; () (rom upper angle; 9 from lU anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 



II from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 

 angle; 5 fully developed from well above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



