530 MR. J. H. LEECH ON THE [Nov. 19, 
253. PLUSIA EXCELSA. 
Plusia excelsa, Kretschmar, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1862, p. 135, pl. i. 
fig. 5. 
Plusia metabractea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 190. 
A specimen which I took at Nemoro in August agrees exactly 
both with P. eacelsa, Kretschmar, and P. metabraciea, Bul. It is 
very like P. éractea, and is possibly only a form of that species. 
Tokio (Fenton) ; Nemoro (Leech); Russia, Ural, Altai. 
254. PuusiaA AGRAMMA. 
Plusia agramma, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 327 (1852). 
Six specimens, coll. Pryer. 
Yckohama? (Pryer); Ceylon, Java. 
255. PLUSIA LEONINA. 
Plusia leonina, Oberth. Etud. d’ Ent. x. p. 26, pl. ii. fig. 11 (1834). 
Plusia humeralis, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 135. 
Three examples, coll. Pryer. 
Sidemi (Jankowski); Yesso (Pryer). 
256. PLusIA CHRYSON. 
Noctua chryson, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 141. fig. 2 (1789). 
Noctua orichalcea, Hiibn. Noct. pl. 57. fig. 278. 
Plusia orichalcea, Treit. Schmett. v. 173; Guen. Noct. ii. p. 334. 
Four examples, coll. Pryer, and one taken by my native collector 
at Gensan. In the Geusan specimen the gold spot is only well 
defined within the submarginal line. 
Yokohama, Oiwake (Pryer); Gensan (Nat. Coll.) ; Europe. 
257. PLUSIA CHRYSITIS. 
Phal.-Noctua chrysitis, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 513. 
Noctua chrysitis, Esp. Schmett. iv. pl. 109. fig. 5; Hiibn. Noct. 
pl. 56. fig. 272, pl. 145. figs. 662, 663. 
Plusia chrysitis, Treit. Schmett. v. 169; Guen. Noct. ii. p. 335. 
Var. Plusia nadeja, Oberth. Etud. d’Entom. vy. p. 84, pl. ii. 
fig. 10 (1880). 
Three examples, coll. Pryer. 
I took specimens at Gensan in June and Hakodate in August. 
Although it would seem to be the ouly form occurring there, the 
variety of P. chrysitis to which Oberthiir has given the name of nadeja 
is not peculiar to Japan, Corea, or Isle of Askold. I have such 
specimens in my European series of the species, and it is not an un- 
common thing to find even British examples in which the central 
dark fascia of primaries is more or less completely divided into two 
portions. 
Yokohama, Nikko (Pryer) ; Hakodate, Gensan (Leech) ; Isle of 
Askold ; Europe. 
