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(4) Plusia sestertia, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110, f. 31 (1874). 



Hab. Natal, Karkloof (Marshall) ; Cape Colony, Knysna 

 (Trimen). Exp. 32 mill. 



(5) Plusia geminipuncta, n. sp. 



^ . Head and thorax dark brown niixed with grey ; abdomen 

 fuscous brown. Forewing purplish grey irrorated with black and 

 largely suffused with red- brown ; an antemedial silvery point below 

 costa and oblique line from cell to inner margin ; the U -mark small 

 silvery and separate from the silvery ring-spot beyond its lower 

 extremity ; the postmedial and subterminal lines dark olive-brown 

 with silvery tinge on their outer edge, the former bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 3, then slightly incurved and oblique, 

 the latter excurved below costa, then oblique and with geminate 

 black spot beyond its middle before termen. Hindwing dark brown, 

 the interspaces of basal half whitish. 



Hab. Natal, Mooi Eiver. Exj). 30 mill. Type in B.M. 



(6) Plusia limbirena, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 350 (1852). 



Hab. St. Helena ; British East Africa, Machakos ; Mashonaland, 

 Salisbury (Marshall) ; Delagoa Bay (Junod) ; Natal, Bstcourt 

 (Hutchinson) ; Cape Colony (Dr. Smith) ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon. 



Exp. 42 mill. 



(7) Plusia signata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 81 (1792). 



Hab. West Africa, Sierra Leone ; Natal, Durban (Leigh) ; 

 China ; India ; Ceylon ; Java ; Fiji. Exp. 32 mill. 



(8) Plusia angulum, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 350 (1852). 



Hab. Natal, Bstcourt (Hutchinson), Durban (Leigh) ; Cape 

 Colony (Trimen). Exp. 42 mill. 



(9) Plusia ni, Hiibn. Noct. pi. 58, f. 284 (1827). 



Hab. West Indies ; Cape Verd Islands ; Cape Colony, Capetown 

 (Lightfoot) ; Persia ; Japan ; China ; India. Exp. 38 mill. 



(10) Plusia lavendula, n. sp. 



(? . Lilacine grey ; palpi brownish at sides : tegulae with brownish 

 band and black lateral points ; thorax tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 pale grey with the dorsal crests mostly brown, Forewing with brown 

 suffusion on costa before the antemedial line, on medial area except 



