202 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Spectes 
below greyer, without the paler border. Expanse 1 inch 4 
lines. 
Yokohama (Jonas). 
128. Plusia purissima, n. sp. 
Allied to P. parilis, but larger, greyer, more sharply defined, 
more sericeous ; primaries more acuminate ; the lower half of 
the external area and a broad oblique streak from the apex 
to the end of the cell silvery whitish ; transverse band much 
more oblique, the limiting lines sharply defined, black, with 
pinkish white external edge; the silvery y replaced by two 
silvery spots; the submarginal line straight to the third median 
branch and then gently angulated, terminating before the apex; 
a marginal piceous and white streak, not reaching the ex- 
ternal angle: secondaries pale brown, becoming darker towards 
the outer margin; two ill-defined dusky discal lines: head, 
collar, and thorax grey, with red-brown posterior transverse 
bands; abdomen brownish grey, with a red-brown dorsal tuft 
near the base. Under surface sericeous grey, with two parallel 
discal darker lines ; secondaries with the basal half whitish. 
Expanse 1 inch 5 lines. 
Yokohama (Jonas). 
129. Plusia mikadina, n. sp. 
Nearly allied to P. concha, but rather paler, the golden e,- 
shaped marking of primaries replaced by a larger brassy €3; 
the outer or discal line more deeply sinuated, and the golden 
patch bounded by it on the inner margin of double the width, 
all the golden patches paler; the discoidal spots narrower and 
more angular: wings below much paler, the discal streaks 
wider apart, the outer one of primaries more strongly angu- 
lated. Expanse 1 inch 7 lines. 
Hakodaté ( Whitely) ; Yokohama (Jonas). 
Calpide. 
150. Calpe excavata, n. sp. 
Form of C. thalictri, excepting that the inner margin of the 
eos is more deeply excavated and more widely lobate. 
ore nearly allied to C. rectistria, but the primaries of a richer 
reddish brown, the golden patch from the external angle up- 
wards is wanting, the double oblique line from the apex 
separates more widely and becomes more irregular near the 
inner margin, outer margin subangulated below the middle ; 
the secondaries differ in their dull sandy-brown colour, with 
broad diffused fuliginous external border; head and thorax 
