PSEUDOCALPB. PLUSIA. 567 



SECT. II. Antennae of male bipectinate to three fourths length. 



2656. Pseudocalpe vagabunda, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 519, pi. 47, 



fig. 5 ; C.&S. no. 1228. 



Brownish ochreous. Tore wing irrorated with dark specks ; an 

 indistinct oblique diffused dark medial line ; a sinuous ochreous 

 line from outer margin below apex to inner margin beyond middle. 

 Hind wing ochreous white. 



Hob. Aden ; Karachi. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus ARSACIA. 

 Arsacia, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1259 (1865). 



Type, A. saturatalis, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Penang; Borneo. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint thickly scaled, the 3rd minute and 

 acute ; no frontal tuft ; antennae almost simple in male ; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled ; the tibia3 naked. Tore wing with 

 the apex quadrate ; the outer margin rounded : the inner margia 

 lobed and with slight tufts of hair near base and at outer angle ; 

 veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. 



2657. Arsacia saturatalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1260; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 152, fig. 8; C. $ S. no. 1231. 



Arsacia frontirufa, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 301, pi. 20, fig. 12 ; 

 C. # S. no. 1230. 



Head and thorax rufous ; abdo- 

 men fuscous. Fore wing bright 

 chestnut ; the costa suffused with 

 pink ; an oblique line from the 

 apex to middle of inner margin, 

 the area beyond it suffused 

 with pink and with indistinct sub- 

 marginal and marginal series of 



. F jg- 320- patches of dark scales. Hind 



Arsacia saturatalis. tf . f . * . j -, * 



wing dark fuscous. 



The form frontirufa is much darker. 



Hah. Punjab ; Bombay ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Penang ; Borneo. 

 18 millim. 



Genus PLUSIA. 



Plusia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 89 (1816). 

 Euchalcia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 250 (1818). 

 Polychrysia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 251. 



Type, P. clirysitis, Linn., from Europe. 



J{<tt)f/e. Universally distributed. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 

 antenuae of male ciliated ; thorax with a very large spreading tuft 

 on the vertex ; abdomen with three large dorsal tufts on basal 



