82 Mr. W. Sehau^ on 



Plusiodonta nitissima, sp. n. 



Palpi white, outwardly shaded with brown. Head : frons 

 white ; vertex ochreous brown, with a dark projecting tuft. 

 Collar and thorax ochreous brown, shaded with dark brown 

 and irrorated with lilacine scales. Abdomen fuscous grey 

 above, whitish underneatli, irrorated with grey. Fore wings 

 light brown, with darker lines and shadings ; a lilacine basal 

 line; the antemedial space broadly silvery golden, thickly 

 irrorated with brown in cell and just below it, also on sub- 

 median ; the costa finely dark grey ; the medial space dark, 

 extending to apex, forming a triangle of which the base is 

 along a wavy line extending from below apex to lobe on inner 

 margin, shaded with lilacine along costa, and with wavy, 

 transverse, lilacine medial lines ; an inwardly oblique dark 

 shade from below reniform to lobe; the renitbrra consisting 

 of wavy lines and some golden scales ; some golden scales 

 also medially below cell ; the postmedial partly shaded with 

 lilacine ; a large silvery-golden space on outer half of inner 

 margin extending slightly above vein 2, and a smaller similar 

 space beyond postmedial between veins 3 and 5; a fine sub- 

 terminal line outcurved to 6, then incurved across this latter 

 golden space, rounded and deeply incurved across the golden 

 space on inner margin ; three submarginal black spots above 

 tornus, and some golden spots above vein 3, outwardly shaded 

 with black from vein 4 to 7 ; an interrupted marginal lilacine 

 shade and terminal line. Hind wings fuscous grey. 



Expanse 39 mm. 



Hab. Tuis. 



Plusiodonta miranda, sp. n. 



Palpi reddish brown. Head and thorax brown. Collar 

 golden brown, all irrorated with lilacine. Abdomen fuscous 

 grey. Fore wings golden brown; from base of costa and 

 inner margin to lobe lilacine grey, limited by a fine oblique 

 whitish line ; a dark streak on costa and below cell, and one 

 in cell more outset, followed by another on costa beyond; 

 from before middle of subcostal an inwardly oblique dark 

 shade to submedian ; the outer portion of inner margin to 

 near tornus shaded with lilacine ; the medial space slightly 

 tinged with lilacine ; the costal margin from before middle 

 to near apex shaded with lilacine; reniform duller brown ; a 

 black line from outer margin along vein 7 and incurved to a 

 golden-yellow postmedial spot on vein 2 ; an ovate black 

 line from tornus to near vein 3 ; two other fine lines curved 

 posteriorly and meeting below vein 3 extend, the inner one 



