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towards inner margin and on inner side of subterminal line ; a 

 sinuous silvery white subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 the antemedial line silvery defined by blackish, sinuous and excurved 

 in submedian interspace; the stigma below end of cell silvery, 

 Y-shaped with its tail bent outwards ; the postmedial line grey 

 defined by blackish, minutely dentate and angled inwards in discal 

 and submedian folds ; the subterminal line excurved below costa, 

 strongly angled inwards in discal fold and incurved in submedian 

 fold with indistinct dentate brown line beyond it from costa to vein 

 3 ; ciha white intersected with brown. Hindwing whitish, the veins 

 and broad terminal band brown; the under side with indistinct 

 medial and postmedial lines. 



Hab. Cape Colony. Exjj. 44 mill. Type in B.M. 



(11) Plusia ciecumflexa, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 844 (1758). 



patefacta, Wlk. xii. 924 (1856). 

 Hab. Europe ; Madeira ; Canaries ; Transvaal (Eoss) ; Natal, 

 Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Cape Colony, Grahamstown (Tuck), 

 Capetown (Trimen) ; Persia ; India ; Ceylon. Ex2J. 40 mill. 



(12) Plusia daubei, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 159 (1840). 



dorfmeisteri, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110, f. 33 (1874). 

 Hab. Europe; West Africa, Congo; Senegal; Mashonaland, 

 Sahsbury (Marshall) ; Natal, Estcourt (Hutchinson) ; Cape 

 Colony, Knysna (Trimen) ; India. Exp. 34 mill. 



(13)*Plusia aeachnoides, Dist. Entom. 1901, p. 285. 

 Hab. Transvaal. Exjj. 34 mill. 



(14) Plusia oxygeamma, Hiibn. Zlitr. p. 37, ff. 769-770 (1827). 

 Abrostola transfina, Wlk. xii. 884 (1856). 



Hab. British East Africa, Machakos ; Natal (Gueinzius), Mal- 

 vern (Marshall) ; Western Asia ; Japan ; China ; India ; 

 Ceylon ; Java ; Australia ; Fiji. Ex-p. 42 mill. 



(15) Plusia okichalcea, Eabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 227 (1781). 



Hab. Azores ; Madeira ; Canaries ; St. Helena ; Ascension ; 

 West Africa; British East Africa; Mashonaland, Sahsbury 

 (Marshall) ; Transvaal (Eoss) ; Natal (Burrows), Malvern 

 (Marshall), Durban (Bowker) ; Cape Colony, Grahamstown ; 

 Mauritius; Arabia; Japan; China; Formosa; India; Ceylon; 

 Exj). 44 mill. 



