438 NOCTUID^. 



fore and niid tibia; moderately fringed with liair, the liiiid tibire smoothly 

 fcaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on three basal segments, the crest on Isfc 

 segment large. Fore wing ratiier long and narrow, the costa arched towards 

 apex which is soniewliat produced, the terinen evenlj curved and slightly 

 crenulate, the tomis with scale-tootli ; veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing witli 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from ceil. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing; veins 

 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from iqaper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly angled 



inwards in submedian fold camjdugamma, 



B. Fore wing with tlie postmedial line nt)t angled inwards 



in submedian fold adrasta. 



8260. Plusiopalpa camptogamma. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 26.) 

 Volychrys'm camptogamma, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 430 (1910). 



$ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some greyish;- tarsi 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, whitish 

 at base. Fore wing grey suffused with red-broAvn and with sHght 

 dark irroration ; traces of a silvery streak in base of submedian 

 fold ; subbasal line represented by a curved silvery striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line represented by an oblique silvery striga 

 from costa and inwardly oblique sinuous silvery line from cell to 

 inner margin ; an oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma below end of 

 cell, filled in with greyish and with downcurved silvery streak 

 above it in cell, the inner arm of the stigma sinuous, some golden 

 cupreous suffusion beyond and below it ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa and incurved below the tail 

 of the Y-shaped stigma, where there is some silvery-white on it, 

 some greyish points beyond it on costa and an oblique shade from 

 below costa to its outer edge at vein 4; subterminal line greyish 

 defined on inner side by dark brown from vein 7 to 2 and a wedge- 

 shaped patch in submedian fold, excurved to termen at vein 6, then 

 incurved, a dark patch beyond it at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black striae defined on inner side by a greyish line. Hind wing 

 brown Avith a slight cupreous tinge ; cilia greyish with a dark line 

 at base ; the underside grey-brown with diffused grey-white medial 

 shade. 



Hob. Be. E. Afeica, Kikuyii, Eoromo {Craivshay), 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



8261. Plusiopalpa adrasta. 



Phisia adrasta, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 35 (1874). 



Plusiopalpa dichora, HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 9 (Jan. 1894). 



Flusia crassipalpus, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 576 (March 1894). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pinkish grey ; abdomen 

 ochreous white, the crests red-bjown. Fore wing red-brown mixed 

 with pinkish grey, striated with brown and largely suffused with 



