578 NOCTUIDJE. 



Plusia agens, FeM. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110, fig. 32. 



Plusiodonta auri^icta, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 150 ; C. fy S. no. 2181. 



Head and collar rufous ; thorax and abdomen grey-b;*own. Fore 

 wing red-brown suffused with golden bronze and more or less 

 irrorated with blue-grey scales ; indistinct antemedial and medial 

 waA r ed lines; an oblique double sinuous postmedial line angled 

 below the costa; the orbicular and reniform indistinct; a very 

 irregularly sinuous submarginal golden band with dark edges, 



interrupted at vein 3. Hind wing 

 v dark fuscous ; the cilia pale. 



^^^\ x .. / The form auripicta is rather darker 



^" v '-?Mli| JT ail( ^ more marked with blue-grey. 



IP ^f Larva purplish black with grey 



|g specks and streaks ; the 7th and llth 



somites with pinkish patches ; head 

 reddish. 



Fig. 323. Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, 



Plusiodonta coelonota, <$. \. and Burma; Andamans; Java. Exp. 



32-36 millim. 



Genus TINOLIUS. 

 Tinolius, Wlk. Cat. \\\, p. 621 (1855). 

 Type, T. eburneigvMa, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhim ; throughout continental India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Andamans ; Cambodia. 



Palpi obliquely porrect and hairy ; antenna bi pectinated in 



Fig. 324. Tinolius eburneigutta, <$ . {. 



male, ciliated in female ; thorax without tufts ; abdomen with 

 dorsal tufts. Fore wing with vein 10 from beyond the end of areole. 

 Larvce with two pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



2691. Tinolius eburneigutta, Wlk. Cat. iii, p. 621 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl 

 iii, pi. 171, figs.. 10, 10 a (larva) ; C. # 8. no. 773. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson ; collar, meso- and meta- 

 thorax with paired white-edged black spots ; abdomen with 

 segmental lateral black bands. Fore wing bright red-brown; a 

 white speck at base ; a round white spot at middle of cell and two 

 at end of it two or three white marks on centre of inner margin ; 



