LEPIDOPTEKA HETEROCERA. 843 



wings slightly acute, purplish tinged ; a broad pale gilded undulating 

 band near the base, partly black-bordered on its inner side and ac- 

 companied on its outer side by a dark ochraceous yellowish-bordered 

 line which is retracted towards the costa ; a large pale gilded spot, 

 extending from the interior angle to the disk, and a large pale 

 gilded ringlet in the disk between the above-mentioned line and a 

 double undulating dark ochraceous line, which extends from some- 

 what beyond the middle of the interior border to the costa near the 

 tip; an exterior slender yellowish line slightly parallel to the double 

 line; submarginal line pale cinereous, bidentate in front; interior 

 border with a blackish peoicillate tuft; under side and hind wings 

 aeneous. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. Georgia. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



Plusiodonta natalensis. 



Mas. Sordide ochracei ; palpi subarcuati, verticem superantes, 

 articulo 2o subfimbriato, 3o lanceolato ; pedes laves, yraciles ; 

 alee anticce macula costali basali fasciaque submarginaii 

 informi nigricante marginata auratis, striga basali Jiexa stri- 

 gaque exteriore obliquafuscis, linea adhuc exteriore nigricante 

 obliqua undulata, macula pallide aurata, 



Male. Dull ochraceous, cinereous beneath. Palpi slightly 

 curved, obliquely ascending, rising higher than the vertex and much 

 longer than the breadth of the head; second joint with a short 

 fringe ; third lanceolate, about half the length of the second. Ab- 

 domen cinereous. Legs smooth, slender. Fore wings acute, with a 

 gilded costal spot near the base, and with a gilded very 

 irregular submarginal band, which is blackish-bordered on the 

 inner side; a broad bent brown streak near the base, and a 

 broad brown streak along the inner side of a blackish undulating 

 line which extends from the tuft on the interior border to the costa 

 near the tip, and has a pale gilded spot on its inner side ; interior 

 border excavated for more than half the length from the interior 

 angle. Hind wings aeneous-brown. Length of the body 10 lines ; 

 of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



Plusiodonta anartoides. 



Foem. Purpurascente-ferruginea ; caput et thorax anticus ochracea; 

 alee antica lineis indeterminatis fasciisque duabus obscuriori- 



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