LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 9*21 



to the light which they reflect; the patch with a whitish line along 

 its fore side, and slightly intersected on its exterior side hy a pale 

 rosy brown-bordered exterior line ; orbicular spot large, almost 

 round, with a pale border; reniform almost obsolete ; interior line 

 and marginal line pale ; submarginal line indistinct. Hind wings 

 aeneous-brown, pale towards the base, and with pale cilia?. Length 

 of the body 6 lines; of the wings 16 lines. 



Port Natal. 



a, Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



Group 2. 

 Like the fifth European group. 



72. Plusia limbirena. 



Cinereo fusca ; thorax fasciis duabus nigris ; abdomen cervino- 

 cinereum ; ales anticce fuscce, aureo et rufescente varice^ disco 

 ex parte guttisque marginalibus nigricantibus, U guttaque 

 oblonga discalibus punctisque apud Lineam submarginalem 

 argenteis, macula reniformi apud marginem anteriorem me- 

 dium punctisque anterioribus roseis ; postica pallide cinerea>, 

 margine ceneo-fusco. 



Plusia limbirena, Guen. Noct. ii. 350, 1179. 



Abyssinia. Cape. Madagascar. 



a, b. South Africa. Presented by Dr. A. Smith. 



c. St. Helena? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



d. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



73. Plusta angulum. 



Cervino-fusca ; abdomen cinereum ; aim anticce fasciis obscuriori- 

 bus indistinctis y apud marginem exteriorem subaurata, linea 

 interiore et macularum marginibus subargenteis, macula orbi- 

 culari elongata, lititra discali argentea elongata obliqua antice 

 furcata ; posticce ceneo-cinerea. 



Plusia angulum, Guen. Noct. ii. 350, 1180. 



«. Cape. From M. Drege s collection.. 



4 K 



