50 Mr. W. Schans on 



segment buff. Head mottled grey and brown. Collar light 

 brown in front, then a black-brown transverse line, and 

 whitish behind. Thorax wjiitish grey; some fine transverse 

 black lines posteriorly. Abdomen brown-grey ; tlie sub- 

 dorsal tufts mottled grey and whitish. Fore wings silky 

 grey, shaded with light brown, especially on outer margin ; 

 a bladi basal line ; an antemedial and a medial black line, 

 connected by a dark streak on fold below cell ; a darker grey 

 shade in cell and on costa before antemedial ; the medial 

 space shaded with brown ; the medial line inwardly geminate 

 on costa and cell, preceded and followed by a duller brown 

 spot ; the postmedial space broadly whitish above vein 4, 

 crossed by a fine brown line shaded with white below vein 3 

 to inner margin ; a subterminal dark shade oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, then inset and paler to vein 2, below which 

 it is again darker ; dark terminal streaks on veins and a 

 terminal blackish line intercepted by veins; fringe grey- 

 white. Hind wings fuscous grey, the veins darker ; a 

 terminal dark line. 



Expanse 39 mm. 



Hab. Juan Vinas. 



The female is more uniformly grey, the orbicular better 

 defined. 



Expanse 44 mm. 



Plusia limata, s(|). n. 



Head, eoUai', and thorax olivaceous brown, the collar and 

 patagia tipped with lilacine. Abdomen buflf-grey, darker 

 subdorsal tufts at base. Fore wings lilacine, thinly irrorated 

 with olive-brown, and with similar shadings at base and on 

 costa ; the medial space, below cell and silver mark, metallic 

 brown ; a lilacine basal line ; the antemedial fine, brown, 

 outwardly edged with lilacine, and white below cell ; orbicu- 

 lar annular, finely edged with olive-brown and anteriorly 

 irrorated with brown ; the reniform consisting of a dark 

 shade, inwardly limited by a lilacine line edged with brown, 

 and outwardly containing an indistinct curved silvery line; 

 below cell and orbicular a silvery line along vein 2, abruptly 

 bent back and curving to median, the sharp point thus pro- 

 duced filled with silver, and leaving a small triangular lila- 

 cine space between vein 2 and median ; the postmedial fine, 

 dark brown, slightly incurved below vein 5 and outwardly 

 shaded with clear lilacine ; a broad subterminal bronze shade 

 outwardly limited from above vein 3 to apex by a straight 



