36 PLUSIIDiE. 



PLUSIID.E. 



PLUSIA, Ochs. 

 Plusia ciliaris. (Plate CX. fig. 5.) 

 Plusia ciliaris, Walker, Gat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 928. n. 86 (1857). 



Primaries bronze-brown ; the veins on tbe basal third white ; a white-edged blackish 

 line close to the base ; a forked, white-edged, grey, ^-shaped character, formed by the union 

 of two abbreviated bands, on the basal half; reniform spot oblique, grey, partly black- 

 margined, and with white edges; a slightly sinuous transverse discal white band, intersected 

 by a dark-brown line ; a very irregular submarginal whitish line ; three closely approximated 

 white marginal lines, the central one slightly undulated, the interval between it and the 

 outer line black ; fringe traversed through the middle by a sinuated white line, the sinuations 

 blackish ; costa beyond the middle spotted with white : secondaries whity brown, with a 

 broad external border and the veins greyish bronze-brown : thorax dark grey-brown, crossed 

 by series of curved white-edged dusky lines; abdomen whity brown. Under surface whity 

 brown, the primaries suffused with greyish, excepting the outer border (which has a deeply 

 dentated inner edge), the veins, and a cuneiform patch below the first median branch; costa 

 spotted with whitish beyond the middle ; a dusky stripe crossing the wing just beyond the 

 cell ; fringe creamy whitish, tipped with grey, and enclosing a scries of triangular dusky 

 spots: secondaries crossed by two ill-defined parallel dusky stripes: anterior tibiae with 

 whitish central and terminal spots. Expanse of wings 32 millim. 



Nepal. 



Plusia nigrisigna. (Plate CX. fig. 4.) 

 Plusia nigrisigna, WaVcer, Cat. Lep. lid. xii. p. 9i'S. n. 87 (1857). 



Coloration and general character of/ 5 , circumflexa, but the primaries more acuminate; 

 the black subbasal dash absent ; the white-edged grey pateli on the dark submedian area 

 replaced by a hook-shaped silver line and a small separate fusiform silver spot ; the diseal 

 line more distinctly and continuously dentate-sinuate ; the submarginal edging to the outer 

 border more regularly undulated, not equally divided into brown and ash-grey as in /'. cir- 

 cumfltxa, but having a white external stripe from the subcostal to the first median branch ; 

 the black intcmcrvular dashes arc also wanting. On the under surface the coloration is more 

 uniform than in the above-mentioned species. Expanse of wings 1() millim. 



North India {Hcurscy). 



The P. circiiiiijh.nl of Walker's list has nothing in common with that described by 

 Linnaeus; the latter appears to be the P. graphica of llrrrich-JSchiill'iT (Noct. Eur. t. 108, 

 f. 548), African examples of which are described by Walker under the name of P. patefacta. 

 Haworth (Lcp. Brit. p. 257) describes a /'. circumflexa as occurring in Essex, and quotes 



