new Species of H^octnidse. 581 



Plotheia ferrofusa, sp. n. 



c? . Head and thorax pale grey, the sides of palpi, head, 

 and thorax more or less deeply tinged with ferruginous; 

 fore legs tinged with ferruginous in front ; abdomen pale 

 grey slightly tinged with brown on dorsum. Fore wing pale 

 grey, the basal inner area, medial area except at inner 

 margin, postniedial area at middle, and terminal area except 

 at apex and tornus suffused with bright ferruginous ; a small 

 fuscous spot below costa near base and subbasal spots below 

 costa and in cell ; a double slightly waved antemedial line, 

 strongly excurved from costa to submedian fold, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; a small tuft of whitish scales in middle 

 of cell and small black discoidal tuft ; postmedial line double, 

 arising near antemedial line, very strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, oblique to veins 4^ 3, where it is minutely den- 

 tate, then bent inwards to vein 2 and erect to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line whitish defined by dark brown on inner 

 side, minutely waved, excurved below costa and at middle ; 

 a fine blackish terminal line slightly defined by grey on inner 

 side. Hind wing semihyaline white, the termen narrowly 

 reddish brown. 



Hab. Madras, Belgaum (JVatson), 1 c^; Ceylon, Colombo 

 {Green), 1 ^ type. Exp. 20 mm, 



Plotheia leucogonia, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax grey slightly tinged with red-brown; 

 patagia with brown line near tips ; abdomen grey, the crests 

 dark at tips. Fore wing with the basal and inner areas grey 

 slightly tinged with red-brown, the rest of wing ochreoas 

 suffused with rufous, the grey area defined by a black-brown 

 line from costa to submedian fold, in which it forms a streak 

 to postmedial line, emitting a slight striga from its lower 

 edge before middle ; a slight oblique red-brown discoidal 

 bar; postmedial line indistinctly double, very oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, then excurved, slightly angled inwards in 

 discal fold, at vein 2 retracted to near cell, slightly angled 

 outwards at submedian fold and excurved to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line repi'csented by some diftused rufous, ex- 

 curved at vein 7 and middle ; a small triangular white mark 

 from termeu to postmedial line at vein 2 ; a tuft of dark 

 scales above tornus ; a terminal scries of black strite; cilia 

 rufous. Hind wing white, the terminal area slightly tinged 

 with brown ; the imderside with the costal area slightly 

 tinged with red-brown. 



