574 



Hob. Azores ; Madeira ; Canaries ; St. Helena ; Ascension ; 

 S. Africa ; Mauritius ; Arabia ; Japan ; China ; Formosa ; 

 throughout India and Ceylon. Exp. 44 millim. 



2679. Plusia hebetata, Bull III. Het. vii, p. 71, pi. 131, fig. 1. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing pinkish ; the last with diffused 

 brown subbasal, antemedial, and medial bands ; the postmedial line 

 almost straight ; the irregularly dentate submarginal line with a 

 coppery patch beyond it. Abdomen and hind wing brownish 

 fuscous. 



Hob. Japan ; Kulu. Exp. 44 millim. 



2680. Plusia agramma, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 327 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 152, tig. 3, 3 a (larva) ; <?. S. no. 2153. 

 Plusia inchoata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 841. 



Differs from hebetata in being grey-brown without the rosy 

 tinge. Fore wing with the patches bronze instead of coppery, the 

 postmedial line sinuous. 



Larva green, with lateral black spots ; some short black pointed 

 spines on the back, stoutest on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and llth 

 somites ; a prominent white subdorsal and lateral waved line. 

 Food-plants, Oucurbitacece. 



Hal. Japan ; Sikhim ; Bombay ; Canara ; Ceylon ; Java ; Aus- 

 tralia. Exp. 40 millim. 



2681. Plusia fracta, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 920. 



Plusia placida, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 73, pi. 151, fig. 10 ; 

 C. % S. no. 2174. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing brownish grey, in the darker speci- 

 mens olive-grey. Fore wing with the ante- and postinedial lines 

 straight and oblique, the former obsolete above median nervure, 

 the area between them below the cell bronzy ; the submarginal line 

 slightly sinuous; an almost marginal bronzy straight line. 

 Abdomen and hind wing fuscous. 



Hob. Abyssinia ; Congo ; JN". India ; Mlgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 

 38-42 millim. 



2682. Plusia tetragona, WIU. Cat. xii, p. 932 ; C. $ S. no. 2179. 

 Plusia semivitta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 63, pi. 6, fig. 13 ; 



C.$ S. no. 2176. 

 Plusia purissiina, Butl. III. Het. ii, p. 35, pi. xxxi, fig. 11. 



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

 whitish grey, the last with the markings fuscous instead of bronzy ; 

 a silvery Y-mark with the arms small. 



In Himalayan typical forms the antemedial line is prominent 

 from the costa to median nervure, obsolete in the Japanese form, 

 which also has the tail of the Y-mark separated from the arms, 

 and a dark mark at lower angle of cell. 



Hab. Japan ; Dharmsala ; Kulu. Exp. 40 millim. 



