593 



NOCTUID^. 



Fore wing silvery with golden reflections, tlic snrraco being fctriated, 

 irrorated with a few black scales ; antemedial line double filled in 

 with whitish, oblique, sinuous ; rouiform small, oblique elliptical, 

 slightly defined by whitish and black scales ; postraedial line 

 double' filled in with whitish, exciirved from costa to vein 4 and 

 incurved in submedian fold ; a subterminal series of small black 

 spots, angled outwards below vein 7 and at middle. Hind wii]g 

 very pale yellow ; cilia white at tips. Underside of both wings 

 yellowish white. 



Huh. Natai, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 $ , Durban {Leifjli), 2 5 

 type. Exj). 24 millini. 



Genus PLUSIOCALPE. 



Plusiocalpe, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 29 (1894) 



Type. 

 falluhi- 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi uphurnetl, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long; frons smooth; 

 eyes large, round ; antennse of male with fasciculate cilia ; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales and without crests; fore and hind tibiaa slightly 

 fringed with hair, the mid tibias fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apes rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate, the tornus with scale-tooth, the inner margin 

 with lobe before middle ; veins 3 and 5 froui near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 fully developed from just 

 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



Sect. I. Hind wing of male with thick fringe of long hair on inner area 

 above. 



7015. Plusiocalpe sericina. 



Metapiya sericina, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1899, p. 730. 



6 . Head and tegulse ochreous white ; thorax white faintly 

 tinged with purplish brown and irrorated with a few brown scales; 

 pectus and legs ochreous Avhite ; abdomen ochreous white dorsally 

 suffused with fuscous brown except at base and extremity. Fore 



Fig. 239. — Plusioccdjje sericina, (^ . \. 



wing silky ochreous white tinged with brown and sparsely irrorated 

 with black scales ; the ante- and postmedial lines represented by 

 white striae at inner margin, the former with a streak of white 



