576 



2686. Plusia lectula, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. J1679 ; Moore, Lep. Cei/L iii, 



pi. 146, fig. 2 ; C. $ S. no. 2164. 

 Plusia kalitura, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110, fig. 24. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown and grey ; abdomen pale. 

 Fore wing dark red-brown and purplish grey; an antemedial 

 rufous line ; a broad white streak along median nervure and vein 

 2 as far as the postmedial line, which is bent outwards at vein 5, 

 a large red-brown patch above the streak ; reniform grey with 

 white lines on its inner and outer edges ; some red-brown sub- 

 marginal dentate marks, with a white streak below those near 

 apex ; a rufous submarginal line ; two fine marginal lines and a 

 white line through the cilia. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hob. Bengal ; Canara ; Ceylon. Exp. 28 millim. 



SECT. II. Male with the hind femora heavily tufted with hair. 



2687. Plusia aeneofusa, Swinh. MS. 



cT . Head, collar, and vertex of thorax orange-fulvous ; tegulse 

 and abdomen brown, the last with parts of the anal tuft pale. 

 Fore wing purplish grey, with the medial area below the cell brassy 

 gold and patches on the outer area below the apex and at outer 

 angle; the subbasal, antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines 

 nearly straight ; the orbicular and reniform very indistinct ; an 

 irregularly sinuous submarginal line. Hind wing brown. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 40 millim. Type in B. M. 



SECT. III. (Polychrysia). Palpi with the 3rd joint long and 

 clothed with long hair to near apex. 



2688. Plusia crassipalpus, Swinh. MS. 



Head and thorax dark brown with a pink tinge ; the tufts on 

 metathorax fulvous ; abdomen fuscous, with the dorsal tufts red- 

 brown. Fore wing brown suffused with pink ; a basal triangular 

 dark mark with silver specks on its edges ; a curved double ante- 

 medial line ; a silvery Y-mark with its tail detached from the 

 arms ; a silvery speck at lower angle of cell ; a dark bar beyond 

 cell; a double waved postmedial line; an irregularly sinuous 

 submarginal line ; the outer edge of the antemedial line below 

 cell, the areas below end of cell and before submarginal line 

 cupreous. Hind wing pale at base, fuscous towards outer margin, 

 Underside of fore wing fuscous, the outer margin pale ; hind wing 

 pale, with broad postmedial fuscous band. 



The Java specimen is much paler, without pink suffusion on 

 fore wing and thorax. 



Hab. Khasis ; Java. Exp. 38-42 millim. Type in B. M. 



