124 New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T. A. Barns 



The fore wing superficially recalls the genus Plusia ; the hind wing 

 the Ophiderid genus Gatephia and allied genera. 



6. Plusiophaes metallica sp. n. (pi. XVII, fig. 6). 



$ , 30 mm. 



Head, palpus above, antennal shaft and femora tawny-brown ; 

 thorax above and beneath, palpus beneath, tibiae and tarsi largely 

 brownish-grey, the joints of tarsi tipped with white, the tegulae 

 golden-green, some golden-green scales on thorax ; abdomen grey above, 

 tawny-brown on middle segments beneath, the crests golden-brown. 



Fore wing anteriorly and proximally glossy violet-grey, with a 

 metallic patch at base of costa ; the distal half of wing largely shining, 

 metallic golden-green. SM 2 pale from base to the edge of the metallic 

 area ; an oblique, slightly sinuous pale line from costa near base to 

 hind margin near tornus ; a slight pale line from costa to M, proximally 

 to reniform ; reniform creamy-white, broadly rectangular, slightly 

 defined on each side by fuscous ; two white lines from costa at 

 two-thirds, obliquely curved and uniting in a streak along E 1 to near 

 termen ; a slight pale line thickened at lower angle of cell, from the 

 areole, bordering the metallic area (which is cut off at SM 2 ) ; two 

 gently divergent dark lines from the white streak on R\ the proximal 

 one angled at fold, double and approaching the distal one at hind 

 margin ; the distal one slightly bent at fold ; a white line from costa 

 anteriorly to these ; fringe whitish basally and at tip, broadly dark at 

 middle. 



Hind wing shining white with the base and the distal half glossy 

 grey-brown (the distal border narrowing gradually to tornus) ; the 

 termen (narrowly) and fringe to behind R 1 shining white ; the 

 remainder of fringe as on fore wing. 



Fore wing beneath glossy grey-brown, anteriorly and distally paler, 

 with a rather narrow white medial band and a fine white line bordering 

 a metallic golden-green apical spot. Hind wing as above with the 

 addition of a brown dot on discocellulars and with the distal border 

 paler (the dark irroration more scattered) anteriorly and distally ; some 

 slight brown anterior irroration on basal half of wing. 



E. Tanganyika : Upper Ruvubu River, Urindi District, July and 

 August, 1919. (T. A. Barns.) One $ . 



