450 NocTUiD.^;. 



shade beyond it ; orbicular defined by red-brown, round, an elliptical 

 spot defined by red-brown below it ; reniform defined by red-brown, 

 narrow, placed on a red-brown medial shade which below the cell 

 is approximated to the postmedial red-brown line, which is strongly 

 excm-ved below costa, then oblique, slightly incurved to vein 2, 

 then shghtly excurved, defined on outer side by a pinkish shade 

 arising from apex and extending to before it on costal area ; sub- 

 terminal line red-brown, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and 

 ending at tornus ; a fine red-brown terminal line defined on inner 

 side by a pink line to vein 4. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 cupreous brown ; a slight oblique brown postmedial line defined on 

 outer side by whitish ; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner 

 side by whitish to vein 2 ; the underside white faintly tinged with 

 j-ufous and irrorated with red-brown, indistinct diffused postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. 



Hal. U.S.A., California (B'Urhan), 1 6 type. Exp. 40millim. 



Genus PLUSIDIA. 



Type. 



riusidia, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. iii. p. 27 (1879) cheiranihi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaclung to vertex 

 of head and rather broadly scaled in front, the 3rd rather long ; frous smooth, 

 with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round, overhung by long ciha ; antenuse of male 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the patagia dilated 

 with scales at extremities, the metatliorax with large spreading crest; fore 

 tibia; broadly fringed with hair on outer side, the mid and hind tibiaj smootiily 

 scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, the cresfs on 1st and 

 3rd segments large. Fore wing with tlie apes rounded, the ternien evenly 

 curved and not crennlate ; a small scale-tooth at tornns ;' veins 3 a\id 5 from 

 near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 fi-om 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the lengtli 

 of wing; veins 3,4 from angle; 5 fully developed from well above angle; 

 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



8273. Plusidia cheiranthi. 



Noctua cliciramhi, Tansch. Mem. Mosc. ii. p. 322, pi. 20. f. 6 (1809) ; Friv. 



Tudom. Akad. Evkon. xi. iv. pp. 53, 160, pi. 7. f . 6 ; Mill. leones, iii. 



p. 429, pi. 136. ff. 1-3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236. 

 Plusia eugenia, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1841, i. p. 32, pi. 3. ff. 3, 4 ; Herr.-SchaflF. 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 267 ; Err. Neue Beitr. p. 83, pi. 532. f. 2. 

 Fhisidia abrostoloides, Butl. 111. Het. B.M. iii. p. 28, pi. 47. f. 5 (1879). 



Head and thorax pale red-brown ; antennee with the shaft white 

 towards base ; palpi deeper red-brown ; tegulse with white tips ; 

 patagia with oblique white line at middle, the tips and dorsal crest 

 chocolate-brown with white tips ; fore tibise chocolate-brown, the 

 tarsi whitish ; abdomen pale red-brown, the crests chocolate-brown 

 tipped Avith white. Fore Aving pale pinkish, the veins darker, the 

 medial area striated with brown, the costal and terminal areas 

 slightly irrorated with black; subbasah line black defined on each 



