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Plusia innata, Herr.-Scbaff. Oorresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Eegensb. xxii 



p. 184 (1868). 

 Phtsia comma, Schultz, Inteim. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). 

 Plusia vi, desertioola, Oberth. ined. Eoths. ?Nov. Zool. xx. p. 129 (1913). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with whitish, the tegulse with 

 sHght blackish line at middle defined behind by white scales ; abdo- 

 men pale rufous, the crests red-brown and whitish, the ventral 

 surface white tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish irrorated and 

 striated with black-brown and suffused with red-brown with a 

 golden cupreous gloss ; subbasal line white defined on each side by 

 red-brown and with a black striga before it below the cell, sinuous, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, red-brown 

 filled in with white, waved, oblique below the cell ; orbicular white, 

 its centre defined by red-brown, oblique elliptical ; an oblique 

 silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell, with spot beyond 

 its lower extremity with some red-brown in centre, its arms 

 filled in with white; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in 

 with white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely 



Fig. 121. — Phytometra ni, (^. {. 



waved, bent outwards below submedian fold, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on 

 outer side by white and with short black streaks before it from 

 below costa to above vein 4, dentate ; a fine white line before 

 teimen and a fine dai'k terminal line ; cilia with a white line 

 at base followed by a series of red-brown lunules. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with cupreous red-brown, the terminal area cupreous 

 red-brown ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ; the under- 

 side white tinged with rufous, the costal area irrorated with brown 

 and the terminal area slightly suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. coimna. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y-mark. 



Ab. 2. deserticola. Fore wing slightly paler and less rufous. 



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