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with diffused fuscous line before it ; a crenulate black terminal line. 

 Hindwing fuscous brown ; the interspaces of basal half whitish. 



Hah. Natal, Durban (Bowker, Innes) ; Cape Colony. Exp. 

 36 mill. Type in B.M. 



Genus PLUSIA. 



Type. 

 Plusia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 89 (1816)... chrysitis. 



A. Forewing with a stigma below end of cell, generally Y or U-shaped. 



a. Hindwing orange exquisita. 



b. Hindwing not orange. 



a\ Forewing with the U-shaped stigma more or less separate from the spot 

 at its lower extremity. 



a^. Forewing with cupreous suffusion on medial and terminal areas. 

 a3. Forewing with the postmedial line angled out- 

 wards at vein 4 chalcites. 



&3. Forewing with the postmedial line not angled 



outwards at vein 4 chalcedona. 



b'. Forewing without cupreous suffusion on medial and terminal areas. 

 «3. Forewing with brilliant silvery suffusion on 



medial inner and terminal areas sestertia. 



63. Forewing without silvery suffusion on medial and terminal 

 areas, 

 a.-*. Forewing with bifid subterminal black spot 



between veins 3,4 geminipuncta. 



&'t. Forewing with pale pinkish spot on middle 



of termen Umbirena. 



c". Forewing without spot on middle of termen. 



aS. Forewing without black streaks on inner side of sub- 

 terminal line. 

 a^. Forewing with subbasal black points 



below the cell signata. 



b^. Forewing without subbasal black 



points below the cell angulum. 



&5. Forewing with black streaks on inner 



side of subterminal line ni. 



b^. Forewing with the U-mark and spot completely confluent. 



a-. Forewing with the marks forming an elongate V with bent ex- 

 tremity. 

 a3. Forewing with the extremity of V short. 



rt'*. Forewing with the subterminal line strongly 



angled inwards at middle lavendula. 



&■*. Forewing with the subterminal line not 

 angled inwards but with black streaks on its 



inner side circumflexa. 



W. Forewing with the extremity of V long and 



reaching or almost reaching postmedial line . . daubei. 

 b'. Forewing with the marks forming an elongate oblique vitta. 

 rt3. Forewing with white-edged subapical lunulate 



mark arachnoides. 



&3. Forewing without white-edged lunulate sub- 

 apical mark oxygramma. 



