932 CATALOGUE OF 



93. Plusia tetragon a, 



Foem. Cinerea ; alee anticce fascia postica obliqua abbreviata 

 latissima nigro-fusca, striga anteriore longi-fusiformi argen- 

 tea, linea exteriore fusca, orbiculari et reniformi subobsoletis, 

 linea marginali albida ; posticce pallide cinerece, linea discali 

 margineque fuscescentibus. 



Female. Cinereous. Third joint of the palpi full half the 

 length of the second. Fore wings with an oblique very broad 

 blackish brown band, which extends from the interior border to the 

 disk, and is there obliquely truncated ; it is bordered with black, 

 and in front is partly bordered by, and partly contains, an elongated 

 fusiform silvery streak; its exterior border is continued to the costa, 

 and there is a brown line at about half the distance between it and 

 the exterior border of the wing ; orbicular and reniform spots 

 almost obsolete ; a whitish marginal line. Hind wings pale cine- 

 reous ; a discal line and the border brownish. Length of the body 

 5 lines: of the wings 13 lines. 



Hindostan. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Australia. 

 Group 1. 



Like the fifth European group. 



94. Plusia argentifera. 



Cinerea ; alee anticce cupreo aureoque varice, lineis duabus trans- 

 versis basalibus lituraque biangulata apud maculam renifor- 

 mem argenteis, maculis duabus discalibus argenteis micantibus, 

 una vix U formi, altera subtrigona ; postica ceneo-cinerece . 



Plusia argentifera, Guen. Noci. ii. 352, 1186. 



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



b. Moreton Bay. Presented by — Gibbons, Esq. 



c. Moreton Bay. From Capt. Parry's collection. 



d. Moreton Bay. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



e. Australia. Presented by the Entomological Club. 

 /, g. Adelaide. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



k. Tasmania. From Mr. A. J. Smith's collection. 



