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CATALOGUE OF 



58. Plusia egena. 



Var.? Rufescente-cinerea ; thorax antice croceus ; abdomen cine- 

 re nm ; alee anticce acuminates, subauratce fusco nebulosce, tinea 

 exteriore obliqua et macularum marginibus obscurioribus, 

 plagis duabus obscure fuscis, una postica subquddrata argenleo 

 antice marginata, altera submarginali lineam submarginalem 

 nigrum angulatam includente ; posticce ceneo-fuscce, basi ciliis- 

 que pallidis, 



Plusia egena, Guen. Noct. ii. 328, 1138. 



Var. P Pale fawn-colour. Fore wings almost booked ; discal spots 

 and some transverse zigzag lines brownish; orbicular spot round ; 

 reniform spot elongated, hardly concave on the interior side, much 

 excavated on the exterior side ; two large gilded patches; one ex- 

 tending from the interior border to the disk, where it is bounded by 

 a short curved silvery line ; exterior border almost angular in 

 the middle. Hind wings slightly aeneous, indistinctly angular; 

 base and ciliae paler. Length of the body 5^ lines ; of the wings 

 15 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



b. Bio Janeiro. From Mr. Stevens' collection, 

 e. Bogota. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



d — g. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection, 



A. ? Presented by J. F. Stephens, Esq. 



L ? 



Group 2. 

 Like the fifth European group. 



59. Plusia includens. 



Foem. Cinerea ; alee anticce angustce, cuprece, ex parte aurata, 

 fasciis obliquis cinereis, lineis duabus bamlibus argenteis, 

 maculis duabus discalibus argenteis micantibus subrotundi*, 

 una integra, altera aperta guttamque argenteam includente, 

 lineis transversis undulatis obliquis, margine exteriore per- 

 obliquo ; posticce cupreo-fuscce, ciliis albidis. 



Female, Cinereous. Fore wings narrow, cupreous, gilded, 

 here and there with cinereous oblique irregular bands, with two 

 transverse silvery lines near the base ; two brilliant silvery almost 



