478 N0CTUIDJ5. 



middle; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with silver}^- 

 white and with minute black lunules on its inner side below 

 veins 4 and 3, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold, then somewhat sinuous and slightly excurved at 

 middle, a narrow white band beyond it and some small white spots 

 on costa ; subterminal line blackish, slightly waved, angled inwards 

 below costa and at discal fold, excurved below vein 7, and 

 angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of minute 

 blackish lunules with a narrow white band before them traversed 

 by a fine brown line ; cilia whitish with a series of minute dark 

 spots. Hind wing white tinged with golden brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with golden brown except towards tornus ; cilia Avhite 

 with small brown spots from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white, 

 the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a 

 slight discoidal lunule and faint diffused postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Hah. S. France, Leech Coll., Montpellier, Zeller Coll. ; Spain, 

 Leech Coll., Catalonia, Zeller Coll., Barcelona, Frey Coll. ; Corsica ; 

 Sicily; Algeria, Biskra {Eaton), IS; Palestine; Punjab, 

 Kulu {Hocking), 3 d" , 1 $ , Sultanpur {G. Young), 1 c? , 2 $ , 

 Almorah {Boys), 1 <S , Jubbulpm- {¥. Butler), 1 6 \ Nepal, 1 $ 

 type ciiiaris; Sikhim; Bengal, Pusa {Lefroy), 1 $. Exp. 

 30-32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 271 ; Hff m. Eaup. p. 135, pi. 32. f. 8. 



Reddish brown with oblique dark lateral streaks. Food-plant, 

 SoncTius maritimtis. 



8304. Phytometra indicator. 



Plusia indicator, Wlk. xii. 922 (1857). 



Plusia g-roseum, Guen. Maillard's Reunion, Lep. p. 42 (1862). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous and some gre}"- 

 white, the tegulse with slight dark medial line and whitish tips ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous mixed with brown, the last 

 with the crests blackish at tips. Fore wing greyish suffused and 

 irrorated with dark chocolate-brown and with a slight cupreous 

 gloss, the medial area with a deep chocolate-brown patch below 

 the cell, the veins with slight pale streaks ; subbasal line represented 

 by double silvery striae from costa and a small V-shaped mark 

 below the cell, defined by black-brown ; antemedial line silvery 

 defined by brown, excurved below costa and obliquely incurved 

 below the cell ; orbicular with silvery outline, very narrow and 

 oblique ; a very elongate oblique silvery V-shaped stigma filled in 

 with grey below the cell, its inner arm extending to the antemedial 

 line and its apex almost to the postmedial line ; reniform defined 

 at sides by silvery striae, constricted at middle and with small 

 black spot on its outer edge ; postmedial line silvery defined at 

 sides by brown, bent outwards and obsolescent below costa, very 

 slightly incmwed at discal fold, and oblique below vein 3, a narrow 



