460 



NOCTUID^. 



medial line whitish, excurved below costa and incurved in cell, then 

 silvery- white and oblique, a golden-bi'own mark before it at inner 

 margin ; orbicular with brownish centre and whitish annulus, 

 round; a U-shaped stigma below the cell slightly defined by 

 whitish ; renif orm with brownish centre and whitish annulus, 

 elliptical; an oblique brownish line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line brown filled in with ochreous white, 

 excurved below costa, then oblique, very slightly waved to discal 

 fold, a whiter shade beyond it and some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line brown, rather diifused, excurved below costa and 

 strongly incurved below vein 6, then erect and defined on outer 

 side by whitish towards inner margin ; a white line just before 

 termen from apex to vein 3 ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base 

 and small dark spot at vein 4. Hind wing cupreous brown, the 

 interspaces of basal half whitish ; cilia white with a brown line 

 through them ; the underside with the basal half brownish white, 

 the terminal half pale brown, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with dark brown. 



Sab. C 01^ GO (Curror), 1 $ type; Abyssinia, Atbara (Ger- 

 rarcl), 1 <S ; Bb. E. Apbica, Ndimu {Betton), 1 $ ; Uganda, 

 Entebbe (3IincJu7i), 1 c? , Ruwenzori ( Wollaston), 1 $ ; Mashona- 

 liAND, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 S ; Natal, Durban {Leigli), 2 §. 

 ^.r/j. 36-40 milHm. 



8283. Pliytometra placida. 



Fluda placida, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 73, pi. 151. f. 10 (1884) ; Ilinpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 574. 

 Plusia chillagoes, Lucas, Pr. Roy. Soc. Qiieensl. sr. p. 150 (1900). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale red-brown, the tegulue 



Fig. 120. — Pliytometra lAacida, S- \- 



pale rufous with white tips ; antennjE white slightly tinged with 

 brown ; alxlomen whitish tinged with red-brown, the basal crest 



