570 NOCTUID-E. 



Some specimens are much darker than others. 



Larva green, the back palest, with indistinct dorsal and lateral 

 pale lines. Food-plant, Ficus. 



Hob. N. and S. America ; Wadelai ; Aden ; Japan ; China ; 

 throughout the Indian, Malayan, and Australasian regions, 7i.<.y>. 

 42 millim. 



2664. Plusia nigrisigna, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 928; ButL III. Hd. vi, 



pi. 110, fig. 4 j C. $ S. no. 2168. 



Differs from eriosoma in the lower arm of the Y-mark being 

 nearly straight and almost touching the auteinedial line ; a small 

 bright chestnut patch beyond the end of its tail ; a sinuous golden 

 mark on outer edge of reniform, with three black specks in its 

 undulations. 



Some specimens are darker than others. 



Hob. N.W. Provinces; the Himalayas from Simla to Sikhim. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



2665. Plusia ni, Hiibn. Noct. pi. 58, fig. 284. 

 Plusia humilis, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 915. 



Plusia extrahena, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 929; C. $ S. no. 2161. 

 Plusia significans, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 930 ; C. 8f S. no. 2178. 



Differs from eriosoma in the head and thorax being mingled grey 

 and ferruginous ; abdomen ochreous white, with the dorsal tufts 

 ferruginous. Fore wing grey, without gilded areas ; the subbasal, 

 ante- and postmedial lines ferruginous and more waved; the 

 orbicular and reniform ferruginous ; the Y-mark more slender, 

 with rufous centre; the subraarginal line more prominent and 

 dentate. Hind wing pale fuscous ; the base pale ; the cilia 

 whitish. 



Hab. San Domingo ; Europe ; St. Vincent (Cape Verds) ; 

 Aden : Japan ; China ; N.W. India. Exp. 38 millim. 



2666. Plusia purpureofusa, n. sp. 



Differs from nigrisigna in the head, thorax, and fore wing being 

 suffused with purple. Fore wing with the lines red-brown ; the 

 antemedial line angled just below the costa ; the stigma either 

 small with the arms separate from the tail, or large and conjoined ; 

 the mark on discocellulars with its outer edge slightly indented 

 and the black specks minute ; the postmedial line double, angled 

 below costa, and not curved. The rufous mark beyond the tail of 

 Y may be absent, and the golden suffusion on inner area and near 

 apex slight. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Bernardmyo, Burma. Exp. 40 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



2667. Plusia Obtusisigna, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 930 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl 



iii, pi. 152, fig. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. Sf S. no. 2169. 



Differs from niyrisiyna in the head, thorax, and fore wing being 



