PLUSIA. 571 



whitish grey, the last with gilded patches above the Y-niark, which 

 is white, with the tail joined to the arms, and on the submarginal 

 line ; an irregular black basal mark below median nervure ; no 

 sinuous black-speckled mark on outer edge of reniform. 



The Burmese specimen is large, with the tail of the Y-mark 

 separate from the arms. 



Larva green with white dorsal lines, subdorsal streaks, and 

 lateral dots ; black dots on 4th to anal somites ; medial prolegs 

 pale red. 



Hab. Poona ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



2668. Plusia gutta, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 346. 



Plusia albostriata, Br em. Beiir. Nord. Chin. p. 18, no. 97. 

 Plusia argyrosigna, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 149 ; C. 8f S. no. 2154. 



Differs from eriosoma in the head, thorax, and fore w 7 ing being 

 purplish grey, the last with the medial area below the cell suffused 

 with reddish brown ; the antemedial line more silvery ; the silvery 

 Y-mark very large and filled in with silver, the arms joined to 

 the tail ; some silvery specks at angle of cell ; the postmedial line 

 straighter. Hind wing paler. 



In the Nilgiri specimen the Y-mark is narrow, the specks at end 

 of cell larger. 



Hab. Europe : Japan ; China ; Dharmsala ; Nilgiris. Exp. 

 38 millim. 



2669. Plusia circumflexa, Linn. 8yd. Nat. i, 2, p. 844 ; C. $ S. no. 2157. 

 Plusia patefacta, Wlk. Cat. xii, p. 924 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, 



pi. 149, fig. 1. 



Head and thorax clothed with grey and brown hairs ; abdomen 

 brownish fuscous. Fore wing grey, clouded in parts with coppery 

 fuscous ; a waved silvery subbasal line ; the antemedial line 

 straight and oblique, obsolete from the costa to median nervure, 

 where it is joined by the lower arm of the V-mark, which has no 

 tail to it and is surrounded by some dark brown ; the postmedial 

 line oblique and almost straight, dentate below vein 2; the 

 irregularly sinuous submarginal line black, with two indentations 

 between the median nervules ; fine marginal and cilial lines. Hind 

 wing fuscous, the basal area palest, the cilia whitish ; underside 

 with cell-spot and postmedial line. 



Hab. Europe ; Teneriffe ; S. Africa ; Nilgiris. Exp. 40 millim. 



2670. Plusia permissa, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1786 ; C. $ S. no. 2173. 



S . Differs from circumflexa in the head, thorax, and abdomen 

 being red-brown ; the anal tuft blackish. Eore wing much suf- 

 fused with coppery red-brown ; the ante- and postmedial lines 

 more sinuous, the latter angled inwards below vein 2 ; the sub- 

 marginal line obscured by the coppery patches. Hind wing 

 reddish fuscous. 



Hab. Canara. Exp. 36 millim. 



