PLUSIA.— HOMODES. 101 



Plusia mutans, TFIk. (Plate CLXII. fig. 5.) 



Plusia miitans, Wll: Cat. xxsiii. p. 830. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale brown, the collar slightly reddish. Fore wing 

 ochreous white ; the basal half irrorated with black specks ; a whitish Y-shaped mark below 

 the end of cell ; indistinct double waved postmedial lines ; a dark irregularly waved sub- 

 marginal band, -with some black markings on its outer edge from the costa to h)wcr radial 

 nervule ; a series of hmular marginal marks. Iliud wing fuscous, paler towards ]j;use. 



CAREINjE. 



Brada damnipenuis, IFlk. (Plate CLIX. tig. /.) 

 Phanaca damuipennis, WlJc, Cat. xxxiii. p. 857. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Male. Head and thorax dark red-brown ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing red-brown, 

 slightly suffused with grey ; an indistinct, waved, oblique antemedial line ; a speck in end of 

 cell; a postmedial curved and waved line; traces of a waved series of submarginal specks. 

 Hind ■^^ing dark fuscovis. 



Carea clilorostigma. (Plate CLIX. fig. 1.2.) 



Expanse ^ 1^ inch. 



Female. Head orange-red ; collar orange-red at base, then black, and purplish at tip ; 

 thorax and abdomen purplish. Fore wing purphsh, crossed by very obscure ante-, post- 

 medial, and submarginal waved lines ; a round dark green spot in the centre of the cell, with 

 a more elongated one in the interspace below it, and a luniilate discocellular spot. Hind 

 ■wing pale reddish j'ellow. 



PALINDIN^. 



Homodes vivida, Guen. (Plate CLXIIl. fig. 17.) 

 Homodes vivida, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 280. 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fiery orangc-rcd. Whigs fiery orange-red ; fore wing with 

 the costa brown ; basal and antemedial waved fuscous lines ; a broader straight medial line, 

 each having some bluish-silvery scales on it, especially below the costa; a postmedial waved 



