PSEUDOCALPE. — PLITSIA. 567 



Sect. II. Antennae of male bipectinate to three fourths length. 



2656. Pseudocalpe vagabunda, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 519, pi. 47, 



fig. 5 ; C.$S. no. 1228. 



Brownish ochreous. Fore wing irrorated with dark specks ; an 

 indistinct oblique diffused dark medial line ; a sinuous ochreous 

 line from outer margin below apex to inner margin beyond middle. 

 Hind wing ochreous white. 



Hob. Aden ; Karachi. Exp. 30 millhn. 



Genus ARSACIA. 

 Arsacia, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1259 (1865). 



Type, A. saturatalis, Wlk. 



Range. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Penang; Borneo. 



Palpi porreet, the 2nd joint thickly scaled, the 3rd minute and 

 acute ; no frontal tuft ; antennae almost simple in male ; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled ; the tibiae naked. Pore wing with 

 the apex quadrate ; the outer margin rounded : the inner margin 

 lobed and with slight tufts of hair near base and at outer angle ; 

 veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. 



2657. Arsacia saturatalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1260; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 152, fig. 8; C. $ S. no. 1231. 

 Arsacia frontirufa, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 301, pi. 20, fig. 12 ; 

 C. 8f 8. no. 1230. 



Head and thorax rufous ; abdo- 

 men fuscous. Pore wing bright 

 chestnut ; the costa suffused with 

 pink ; an oblique line from the 

 apex to middle of inner margin, 

 the area beyond it suffused 

 with pink and with indistinct sub- 

 marginal and marginal series of 

 Fig. 320. patches of dark scales. Hind 



Arsacia saturatalis, r> • h • i i s> 



wing dark ruscous. 



The form frontirufa is much darker. 



Hob. Punjab ; Bombay ; Mlgiris ; Ceylon ; Penang ; Borneo. 

 Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus PLUSIA. 



Plusia, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 89 (1816). 

 Euchalcia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 250 (1818). 

 Polychrysia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 251. 



Type, P. chrysitis, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 

 antennae of male ciliated ; thorax with a very large spreading tuft 

 on the vertex ; abdomen with three large dorsal tufts on basal 



