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PLUSIID^. 
PLUSIIDiE. 
PLUSIA, Ochs. 
Plusia ciliaris. (Plate CX. fig. 5.) 
Plusia ciliaris, WaVcer, Cat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 928. n. 86 (1857). 
Primaries bronze-brown ; the veins on the basal third white ; a white-edged blackish 
line close to the base ; a forked^ white-edged, grey, N-shaped character, formed by the union 
of two abbreviated bands, on the basal half; reniform spot oblique, grey, partly black- 
margined, and with white edges ; a slightly sinuous transverse discal white band, intersected 
l)y a dark-brown line; a very irregular submarginal whitish line; three closely approximated 
white marginal lines, the central one slightly undulated, the interval between it and the 
outer line black ; fringe traversed througli the middle by a sinuated white line, the sinuations 
blackish ; costa beyond the middle spotted with white : secondaries whity brown, with a 
I)road external border and the veins greyish bronze-brown : thorax dark grey-brown, crossed 
by series of curved white-edged dusky lines; abdomen whity brown. Under surface whity 
brown, the primaries sutfused with greyish, excepting the outer border (which has a deeply 
dentated inner edge), the veins, and a cuneiform patch below the first median branch ; costa 
spotted with whitish beyond the middle ; a dusky stripe crossing the wing just beyond the 
cell ; fringe creamy whitish, tipped with grey, and enclosing a series of triangular dusky 
spots : secondaries crossed by two ill-defined parallel dusky stripes : anterior tibiai with 
whitish central and teriniiial spots. Expanse of wings 32 millim. 
Nepal. 
Plusia nigrisigna. (Plate CX. fig. 4<.) 
Plusia nigrisigna, Wall-e)\ Cat. Lcp. Het. xii. p. 928. n. S7 (1857). 
Coloration and general character of P. circumflexa, but the primaries more acuminate ; 
the black subbasal dash absent ; the white-edged grey patch on the dark subraedian area 
replaced by a hook-shaj)ed silver line and a small separate fusiform silver spot ; the discal 
line more distinctly and continuously dentate-sinuate; the submarginal edging to the outer 
border more regularly undulated, not equally divided into brown and ash-grey as in P. cir- 
CM7iiflcxa, but having a white external stripe from the subcostal to the first median branch ; 
the black internervular dashes are also wanting. On the under surface the coloration is more 
uniform tlian in the above-mentioned species. Expanse of wings 40 millim. 
Noi'th India [Hearsey). 
The P. circumflexa of AValker^s list has nothing in common with that desci'ibed by 
Linnajus ; the latter appears to be the P. graphica of Herrich-Schafter (Noct. Eur. t. 108. 
f. 548), African examples of which are described by Walker under the name of P. patefacta. 
Haworth (Lep. Brit. p. 257) describes a P. circumflexa as occurring in Essex, and quotes 
