THE MOTHS OF INDIA. V22n 



subbasal line from costa to vein 1 defined by black on inner side ; a waved 

 black antemedial line defined by white on inner side and with blue-grey 

 lunules before it in submedian interspace ; orbicular pure white, elongate 

 elliptical and conjoined to a large oblique elliptical white spot below the 

 -cell ; reniform narrow, defined by white and strongly constricted 

 at middle, a black spot above it on costa ; postmedial line black, 

 slightly defined by white on outer side, minutely waved below costa, then 

 oblique, somewhat dentate, and angled outwards at vein 3, some blue- 

 grey beyond it between veins ii and 2 ; subterminal line black, defined by 

 brown on inner side and white on outer, excurved below costa, angled in- 

 wards in discal fold, then somewhat dentate, a fine black terminal line 

 with narrow brown band before it, defined by white striee on inner side ; 

 cilia chequered brown and white. Hindwing bright yellow with broad 

 fuscous terminal band; cilia chequered brown and white. 



Habitat. — Natal; Cape Colony ; Baltjchistan, Quetta. i'.r^. 36mill. 



'2677a. Plusia megaloba, n. sp. * 



9 . Head fiery red ; palpi and antenute rufous, the latter with the 

 basal joint whitish ; thorax rufous, the tegulce tinged with fiery red and 

 the metathorax with brown ; tarsi with slight pale rings ; abdomen 

 greyish rufous, the dorsal crests fiery red, the basal crest tipped with 

 black. Forewing rufous with a greyish tinge, the medial area, except 

 towards costa, and the medial part of terminal area suffused with brilliant 

 cupreous red ; subbasal line represented by an oblique golden striga from 

 costa defined on each side by some cupreous red ; the stigma below the 

 cell silvery white forming a small oblique elliptical spot conjoined to a 

 large conical spot beyond it ; orbicular slightly defined by silver, round, 

 open above ; reniform with silver bar on inner edge and angled mark on 

 outer; postmedial line slight, silvery defined by brown on inner side, 

 erect, sinuous, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; an indistinct 

 irregularly dentate subterminal brown line ; cilia grey-br®wn. Hindwing 

 cupreous brown with a greyish tinge ; cilia brown at base, grey at tips. 



Habitat.— AstiAU, Khasis (Badgley). E:rp. 26 mill. Type in B. M. 



2681a. Plusia chalcopasta, n, sp. 



Hind tibiae and 1st joint of tarsi of male fringed with long hair ; abdomen 

 with lateral tufts of very long hair. 



Head and thorax bronze-brown slightly mixed with greyish, the tegulse, 

 patagia and metathoracic crests tipped with whitish scales ; tarsi slightly 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen red-brown. Forewing purplish grey-brown 

 suffused with golden bronze, the lines golden bronze ; subbasal line slight, 

 oblique, from costa to median nervure ; antemedial line inwardly oblique, 

 sinuous, a bisinuate striga from it to near postmedial line below the cell, with 

 some purplish grey above it in and below the cell ; orbicular and reniform 

 with faint bronze annuli, the former round, the latter oblique elliptical ; 



