590 NOCTCIDiE. 



some whitish points beyond it on costa ; terminal area suffused 

 with red-brown ; subterminal line pinkish white, oblique, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and very slightly excurved at middle ; a fine 

 red-brown terminal line ; cilia grey with a pinkish-white line at 

 base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown ; cilia white ; the underside white irrorated 

 with red-brown, a brown discoidal spot, indistinct curved postmedial 

 line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. Hdngaey; ? jN". Italy; Russia, Urals, 1 S ■, 1 ?, Leech 

 Coll.; E. Siberia, Amur, 1 J, 1 $ , Ussuri ; Japan, Yesso (Prt/ei-), 

 2 S ; CoREA, Gensan (Leech), 1 c? , 2 $ . Exj). 34-36 millim.' 



Genus PLUSILLA. 



Type. 

 Pl'usilla, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 533 (1892) rosaiia. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint slender and 

 reaching vertex of head, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennse of male somewhat laminated and ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen not crenulate, evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 

 11 from cell. Plind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulai-s ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



3459. Plusilla rosaiia. 



PlusiUa rosaiia, 8taud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 5.33, pi. 9. f. 11 (1892); id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 235. 



Head and thorax rufous with a pinkish tinge ; fore and mid 

 tarsi dark brown ringed with yellowish white ; abdomen ochreous 

 white slightly tinged M'ith rufous. Fore wing rufous strongly 

 tinged with pink ; antemedial line indistinct, very oblique, sinuous ; 

 ;an oblique somewhat sinuous medial black line defined by yellowish 

 white on inner side from subcostal nervure to submcdian fold, with 

 deep rufous suffusion beyond it; postmedial line with oblique band 



Fig. 149. — PlusiUa rosaiia, c? 



of rufous suffusion from costa to vein 6, then pale golden yellow 

 defined on each side by very slightly waved black lines, obliquely 

 excurved to below vein 3 where it is angled inwards, outwardly 

 oblique to submedian fold, then obsolescent and slightly angled on 

 vein 1 ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing yellowish white, 

 the terminal area slightly tinged with pinkish ; some brown irrora- 

 tion below and beyond end of cell ; a faint dark discoidal lunule 



