﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1787 



Male, Ferruginous, cinereous beneath. Thorax with trans- 

 verse hoary lines, slightly crested. Abdomen cinereous, with 

 i slight testaceous tinge; basal crests and apical tuft blackish. 

 Fore wings cinereous, with a silky lustre, partly cupreous, which in 

 some aspects appear deep black ; veins towards the base and lines 

 whitish ; interior line forming in front an elongated angle, which is 

 contiguous to the silvery irregularly V-shaped border of the discal 

 mark ; marginal line whitish, including the black marginal lunules. 

 Hind wings cinereous, aeneous towards the border ; fringe pale. 

 Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



Canara. In the East India Company's collection. 



Page 933. 



Plusia subsidens. 



* Mas et foem. Cinerea ; thorax ferrugineus ; abdomen pallidum^ 



! testaceum ; alee anticce cupreo varice, lineis basali et interiore 



argenteis, linea exteriorefusca intus argenteo rnarginata, lilura 



Y-formi guttaque elongata late argenteis ; posticce cinerece, 



margine lato ceneo-fusco^ fimbria pallida, 



Male and female. Cinereous, paler beneath. Thorax ferrugi- 

 hous. Abdomen pale, with a sli^^ht testaceous tinge. Fore wings 

 cupreous on the hind part of the disk and along the exterior border ; 

 basal and interior lines silvery ; exterior line brown, silvery by 

 the interior border; discal mark bright silvery, consisting of a 

 V-shaped mark connected with an elongated dot. Hind wings 

 cinereous, with broad aeneous-brown borders; fringe pale. Length 

 of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of the wings 14 — l(j lines. 



a, h. Sydney. From Mr. Lambert's collection. 



Plusia? semicuprea. 



Fcem. Fuscescente-cinerea ; thorax fasciis duabus anticis fusees- 

 centibus ; alee latce ; anticce purpuras cente-cinerecBf lineis albis^ 

 plagis quatuor leete cupreis albjflo marginatis, strigis non- 

 nullis cupreis^ reniformi maxima albido marginata non exca- 

 vata ; posticce ceneo-fuscce vix cinerascentes, linea marginali 

 pallide testacea, 



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