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wings pale brown almost whity-brown on the disc, sprinkled and 

 clouded with fuscous brown ; two white spots in the cell, the outer 

 lunular and smaller than the inner ; antemedial line blackish, wavy, 

 angled below costa ; medial line blackish, sinuous, commencing in a 

 blackish triangular mark on the costa; postmedial line blackish, 

 wavy, curved round cell, united with outer edge of triangular mark 

 on costa; subterminal line blackish, wavy; terminal area fuscous 

 brown traversed by a diffuse and sinuous band of the ground colour, 

 short black bars between the veins joining black lunules on the 

 termen ; fringes fuscous brown marked with paler between the veins. 

 Hind wings fuscous grey with two dusky transverse lines, the outer 

 one sinuous and most distinct ; subterminal line whitish outwardly 

 dentate, inwardly diffuse, not distinct towards costa ; fringes pale 

 brown marked with darker between the veins, proceeded by a series 

 of black lunules. Under side pale brown ; markings of fore wings as 

 on upper side but the terminal area is not darker and the short black 

 bars are not distinct except between veins 3 and 5 ; the transverse 

 lines on hind wings are dark brown, the first bluntly angled beyond 

 the black discoidal mark, the second is serrated and is followed by a 

 brown band which is clouded with blackish about the middle and 

 before dorsum. 



Expanse, 35 millim. 



Collection number, 929. 



A male specimen from Kansbirei, June 16th, 1908. 



Mecodina (?) subornata, sp. n. 



^. Head and thorax fuscous brown, the latter mixed with 

 darker in front ; abdomen whitish brown, heavily powdered with 

 fuscous brown except on the anal tuft. Fore wings fuscous brown, 

 traces of two whitish dots in the cell ; antemedial hne blackish, 

 indistinct except on costa where it is inwardly edged with white ; 

 postmedial line blackish, sinuous and wavy, outwardly pale edged, 

 the edge becoming white and diffuse on the costa; medial Hne 

 blackish, almost parallel with the postmedial from cell to dorsum ; 

 fringes fuscous brown, variegated with white toward apex and tornus. 

 Hind wings fuscous brown, traces of a pale transverse line above 

 tornus. Under side pale brown, variegated with darker brown ; on 

 the fore wings the costa is paler, and the terminal area from tornus 

 to a black spot at middle whitish ; on the hind wings, the basal and 

 terminal thirds are whitish ; all the wings have dark transverse Hues. 



Expanse 38 millim. 



Collection number, 929a. „ 



A male specimen from Kanshirei, April 18th, 190^)" 



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NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Plusia moneta in Nottinghamshire. — I have great pleasure in 

 reporting the capture in my garden of Plusia moneta ; it was taken 

 by my son, W. J. Daws, on the evening of July 4th, 1914, and is now 

 in my collection. It is a fine female, but by the appearance of the 



