1 62 Indian Museum Notes. [VoL V. 



12. Plusia limbirena, Guenee. Sub-family Quadrifinae. Family 

 Noctuidas. Sub-order Phalgense. Order Lepidoptera. 



Sir George Hampson gives only two synonyms for this moth, 

 Plusia confusa, Moore, and Plusia gamma, Kollar (nee Linnaeus). 

 He thus describes it : — Head and thorax clothed with grey and black 

 scales; abdomen pale with the dorsal tufts dark. Fore wing fuscous, 

 with a cupreous tinge ; ill-defined darker medial and submarginal 

 patches; the minutely waved double subbasal and antemedial lines 

 with silvery specks on them ; the orbicular and reniform small, 

 indistinct, and with pinkish edges ; a prominent silver Y-mark below 

 the discoidal cell; the minutely waved double postmedial line angled 

 inwards above vein I ; traces of an irregularly sinuous sub-marginal 

 line; a small pinkish patch in the centre of the outer margin; a 

 marginal series of black specks. Hind wing pale at the base ; the 

 outer area suffused with fuscous ; cilia pale 3 under side with an 

 indistinct lunule at the end of the discoidal cell and a waved post- 

 medial line. Habitat ; St. Helena, South Africa, Madagascar, Aden ) 

 the North-Western Himalayas, Sikkim, the Nilgiri Hills, and Ceylon. 

 Expanse; 42 inillim." [1*5 inches.] Larva: Total length when 

 full-grown one inch. Three pairs of thoracic legs, two pairs only of 

 pro or abdominal legs on the ninth and tenth segments, and the 

 usual pair of anal claspers. The larva is a semi-looper. Cylindrical 

 narrowest at the head, gradually increasing in width to the anal 

 segment. Head of medium size, a little smaller than the second 

 segment, pale yellowish green in colour, with two round black spots 

 on each side on the top of the head (vertex), the anterior spot the 

 larger, a lateral black streak on each cheek. Body pale emerald green, 

 longitudinally striped with white, these stripes are three in number 

 on each side of the dorsal line, the middle stripe is developed on 

 each segment anteriorly into a ring which bears a central white spot ; 

 similarly the third or outer of the three lines bears posteriorly a 

 similar spot ; there is a prominent lateral white line with a round 

 black spot on each segment almost touching it anteriorly ; the 

 spiracles are inconspicuous ; the abdominal region or under surface 

 and legs are green and unmarked, the constrictions between the 

 segments are shallow and would be difficult to detect were they not 

 faintly defined with white. 



This is not a serious pest to indigo as far as my experience goes, 

 as I bred but a few specimens The two outwardly obliquely-placed 

 prominent metallic-golden rounded spots on the upper side of the 

 fore wing in the middle make this insect easy of recognition. 



13. Raparna nehulosa, Moore. Sub-family Fociliinse. Family 

 Noctuidx. Sub-order Phalxnae. Order Lepidoptera. Plate xiii. 



