ABROSTOLA. PLUSIODONTA. 577 



Genus ABROSTOLA. 

 Abrostola, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 83 (1816). 



Type, A. triplasia, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. JNearctic and Palaearctic regions ; S. Africa ; Japan ; 

 Sikhirn. 



Differs from Plusia in having raised tufts of scales on the fore 

 wing and the outer angle not hooked. 



2689. Abrostola anophioides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 148; C. # 8. 



no. 2184. 



Fuscous brown. Abdomen of male with dense lateral tufts of 



hair. Fore wing with the basal 

 and outer areas slightly paler ; 

 slightly waved ante- and post- 

 medial lines, the former with 

 red-brown on its inner edge, the 

 latter on its outer ; the orbicular, 

 reniforin, and a mark below the 

 cell large and indistinct, with 

 narrow outlines of raised black 

 Abrostola anophioides, tf. \. scales; an indistinct pale waved 



submarginal line and black mar- 

 ginal line. Hind wing with the basal area palest ; an indistinct 

 postmedial line ; the underside suffused with grey, with a cell- 

 spot and waved postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhirn. Exp. 48 millim. ^ B/ > | UPE S Zn • V/,3. 



Genus PLUSIODONTA. 



Plusiodonta, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 359 (1852). 

 Deva, Wlh. Cat. xii, p. 962 (1857). 



Type, P. compressipalpis, Guen., from N. America. 



Range. U. States; W. Indies ; S. Africa; Madagascar; Japan; 

 China; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma; Andamans; Java; 

 Australia. 



Palpi upturned, the second joint roughly scaled and reaching 

 the vertex of head or above it ; thorax and abdomen slender, 

 without tufts. Fore wing with the apex somewhat acute ; the 

 outer margin more or less angled at vein 4 ; the inner margin with 

 tufts of scales at centre and outer angle, the margin beiug excised 

 between them. Legs smoothly scaled. 



The typical section has the antennae bipectinated in the male. 



Larvae with two pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



Sect. II. {Deva.) Male with the antenna? minutely ciliated. 



2690. Plusiodonta cceloiiota, Koll. HugeVsKaschmir, iv, p. 482. 

 Plusiodonta chalsvtoides, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 360 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl, iii, pi. 153,' figs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 2182. 

 Deva conducens, Wlk. Cat. xii, 963. 

 VOL. II. 2 p 



