282 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



P. ciliaris, Walker, I.e., p. 928, n. 86 (1857). 

 Europe, India, and West Africa. In Coll. B. M. 



Plusia argentifera. 



Plusia argentifera, Guenee, Noct. 2, p. 352, n. 1186 (1852). 



P. secundaria, Walker, Lep. Het. xii. p. 933, n. 95 (1857). 



Australia and Tasmania. In Coll. B. M. 



Walker selected a dwarfed male of this widely distributed 

 and abundant Australian species as the type of his P. secundaria. 



Plusia basigera, Walker, is P. laticlavia, Morrison ; I do not 

 know which name has priority. 



Plusia agramma, 



Plusia agramma, Guenee, Noct. 2, p. 327, n. 1136 (1852). 



P. inchoata, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. 3, p. 841 (1865). 



Java, Japan, Ceylon, Canara, and Australia. Types in 

 Coll. B. M. 



Plusia chrysitina. 



Phalcena (Noctiia) chrysitina, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 25, fig. 5Q 

 (1797). 



Noctua aurifera, Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. Noct. pi. 98, fig. 463. 



Madras (Martyn), Asia, and Africa. In Coll. B. M. 



P. orichalcea, Fabr., has been confounded with this species ; 

 it however differs in its slightly broader primaries, on which the 

 brassy patch is decidedly broader, more regularly sinuated inter- 

 nally, and not produced nearly so far towards the base. This 

 patch, therefore, answers more closely to the Fabrician descrip- 

 tion, — " anticge macula lunari, orichalcea, nitida." His locality 

 is "India"; we have it from the Nilgiris, Ceylon, and Japan. 

 It stands between P. chrysitina and P. chrysitis. 



Plusia chrysitis. 



Phalcsna chrysitis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 513. 



Plusia nadeja, Oberthiir, Etudes, 1880, p. 84, pi. 3, fig. 10. 



Japan and Europe. In Coll. B. M. 



M. Oberthiir says that the metallic green in his species 

 extends nearer to the base and farther towards the outer margin 

 than in P. chrysitis ; but these differences are not constant. Our 

 brassy Japanese specimens bear out the second distinction, but 

 the greener ones do not. As P. chrysitis varies more in the 

 extent of the metallic area than in any of its allies, such 

 diff'erences have no weight as specific characters. Any lepi- 

 dopterist who compares Kussian and Japanese examples must 

 be convinced at once that they are not distinct species. 



Plusia festuccB. 

 Phalcena festuc(e , Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. x. p. 513. 

 Plusia imtnami, Grote (see Check-List, p. 34, n. 847). 



