920 CATALOGUE OF 



Group 3. 

 Like the sixth European group. 



70. Plusia certa. 



Foem. Cinerea ; alee anticce purpuras cente tinctce, ex parte fusca, 

 fascia exteriore fusca duplicata undulata, linea submarginali 

 nigra angulata, orbiculari et reniformi pallida marginatis, ilia 

 obligua oblonga, litura discali argentea U subformi ; posticce 

 luteal, margine angusto cupreo-fusco. 



Female. Cinereous. Third joint of the palpi more than half 

 the length of the second. Fore wings with a purplish tinge, partly 

 hrown in the disk and towards the base ; bands indistinct, except 

 the exterior one, which is brown, double and undulating, and 

 the submarginal one, which is black and zigzag ; orbicular and 

 re ni form spots with pale borders, the former oblique, oblong; discal 

 mark silvery, irregularly U-shaped. Hind wings luteous, with nar- 

 row cupreous-brown borders. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a. Chili. From Mr. Cuming's collection, 



Africa. 

 Group 1. 

 Like the first European group. 



71. Plusia fracta. 



Mas. Cinerea; thorax antice cervinus, cristis altissimis ; alas, 

 antica plaga postica sulquadrata spatioque submarginali mi- 

 cantibus cupreis aut nigris, ilia antice albido lineata, lineis 

 interiore et marginali pallidis, linea exteriore rosea fusco mar- 

 ginata, submarginali indistincta, macula orbiculari magna 

 subrotunda pallido marginata ; posticce aneo-jusece, bad 

 ciliisque pallidis. 



Male. Cinereous. Third joint of the palpi about half the 

 length of the second. Thorax somewhat fawn-colour in front, its 

 crests and those of the abdomen very high. Fore wings with a 

 large hindward subquadrate patch, and the space about the exterior 

 border shining, and shifting from blackish to cupreous, according 



