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B. Forewing without stigma below end of cell. 



a. Forewing with brilliant brassy patch on terminal area ex- 

 tending inwards below cell oriclialcea. 



b. Forewing without brassy patch. 



aK Forewing olive-grey with dark patch on inner medial 



area fracta. 



?>^ Forewing chestnut-brown without dark patch on inner 



medial area ahlusa. 



(1) Plusia exquisita, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110, f. 30 (1874). 



Hab. Natal, Northdene ; Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss F. Bar- 

 rett), Wynberg (Trimen). Exp. 40 mill. 



(2) Plusia chalcites, Esp. Schmett. 141, 3 (1789). 



eriosoma, Doubl. Dieffenbach'sN. Zealand, ii. p. 285(1843). 



,, verticillata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 344 (1852). 



Hab. North and South America ; Europe; "West Africa ; Sokotra ; 



British East Africa ; British Central Africa ; Mashonaland, 



, Salisbury (Marshall) ; N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; Natal, Karkloof 



(Marshall), Durban (Leigh); Aden; Japan; China; India; 



Ceylon ; Burma ; Malayan and Australian regions ; Hawaii. 



Exp. 42 mill. 



(8) Plusia chalcedona, n. sp. 



Head and thorax brown and grey ; tegulae with a fiery red band ; 

 metathorax with chestnut tuft ; abdomen grey-brown ; male with 

 lateral tufts of long ochreous hair at base and towards extremity. 

 Forewing purplish grey irrorated with black and largely suffused 

 with red-brown ; some brilliant metallic copper suffusion on inner 

 half of medial area and on terminal area and a spot below base of 

 cell ; an antemedial silvery point below costa and oblique line from 

 cell to inner margin, its upper extremity confluent with the silvery 

 U-mark which is separate from the small elliptical spot beyond its 

 lower extremity ; the postmedial line silvery, oblique, minutely den- 

 tate, angled outwards at vein 1 and with oblique straight silvery line 

 beyond it from below costa to vein 3 ; the subterminal line indis- 

 tinct, sinuous, bent outwards to apex and with silvery mark on 

 it in submedian interspace ; some silvery striae on termen from 

 below apex to vein 3. Hindwing dark brown, the interspaces 

 whitish towards base ; an indistinct discoidal lunule and postmedial 

 line. 



Hab. Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson). Exp. 30 mill. Type in 

 B.M. 



