916 CATALOGUE OF 



wings moderately broad, with black speckles, with some black basal 

 marks, and with some submarginal black streaks; transverse lines 

 pale, with brown borders ; submarginal line somewhat zigzag, 

 bounding the black streaks ; orbicular and reniform spots with pale 

 borders, the former long and narrow; discal mark silvery -white, 

 rather large, Y-shaped ; two whitish marginal lines. Hind wings 

 cinereous, with whitish cilia?. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the 

 wings 10 lines. 



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



South America. 

 Group 1. 

 Like the first European group. 



62. Plusia Feisthamelii. 



P. egena simillima ; palporum articulus Sus sat longus ; ala 

 anticce carneo-rosece, margine interiore recto vix dentato, umbra 

 submarginali cinerea vaga nitente lineam submarginalem 

 indistinctam includente ; postica? cinerea?, 



Plusia Feisthamelii, Guen. Noct. ii. 329, 1139. 



Cayenne. 



Group 2. 

 Like the fifth European group. 



63. Plusia Nu. 



Cinerascens ; abdomen sat breve; ala subtus lutescente tincta ; 

 anticat sericece subdentata?, spatiis medio et submarginali 

 obscurioribus magisque micantibus fascia obliqua pallida 

 divisis, lineis transversis undulatis duplicatis subparallelis 

 non bene determinatis, litura basali angulata nigra, litura dis- 

 cali Jlavescente-argentea Y formi ; postica fumoso-ochracece 

 linea vaga margineque nigricaniibus, ciliis pallidis nigricante 

 strigatis. 



Plusia Nu, Guen, Noct, ii. 347, 1175. 



Monte Video. 



