NOCTUID.i:. PLUSIA. 99 



This beautiful insect has been but rarely captured in England, 

 and I believe not a single example has occurred during the past 

 twenty years ; though previously to that period a considerable 

 number was found by Mr. Spratt, flying during the day-time on 

 Salisbury-plains : and Mr. Donovan caught a specimen in South 

 Wales. 



Genus CXLVI. — Plusia, Ochsenheimer. 



Palpi longer than the head, ascending, densely clothed with elongate scales, 

 those of the second joint produced into a conic projection, extending nearly 



GENUS CXLV.— Calotvenia * mihi. 



Antenna moderate, slightly pectinated in the males ; simple in the females : 

 head small, rounded : thorax highly crested : hodij elongate : unnirs deflexed 

 during repose; anterior entire, broad, green, with transverse sinuated fasciee; 

 posterior moderate. 



\VTien I named this genus — of which, for want of specimens, I can only give 

 the above insufficient characters — in my Nomenclature, I was not aware that 

 the name Celsia had been applied by Linne to designate a genus of plants : 

 finding, however, that to be the case, I have substituted the present appellation, 

 and I here take occasion to remark, that the term jNIeHa, recently given to a 

 singular indigenous genus of Lepidoptera, must also be withdrawn, that name 

 being likewise employed by the illustrious Swede for a genus of plants. 



f Sp. 1. Celsia. Alls antic is viridihus, fascia sinuato-deritatdmargineque externa 



fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 8 Un.) 

 Ph. Bo. Celsia. Linne. Martijn (! ) — Celsia viridis. Steph. Catal. part'\\. p. 105. 



No. 6374. 



Head green; anterior wings green, with a fuscous transverse central fascia, 

 having its margin slightly waved, with a single tooth on each, the dentations 

 standing opposite to each other, and behind the posterior one a griseous lunar 

 mark in the middle of the wing; the hinder margin is also fuscous, the inner 

 edge of the fimbria being waved : posterior wings dusky : thorax and abdomen 

 greenish, fringed with red. 



Linnaeus states that it is found on the hop ; Villers on the birch. 



Martyn gives this singular-looking insect as British in his Vade-mecum ; but as 

 I Lave never seen an indigenous example in any collection, I presume that 

 it does not inhabit Britain: it is a native of Hungary, Austria, &c.; but it 

 has been found in Sweden. 



KaXo,-, pulcher ; Ta(v/a, fascia. 



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