22 PLACODID^.— PLUSIID.^:. 
PLACODID^. 
SCEDOPLA, Butler. 
Scedopla regalis. (Plate XLVI. fig. 5.) 
Scedopla regalis, Butler, Ann. 4' Mag. Kat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 201 (1878). 
Primaries rvitli the basal two thirds dark browii^ shot with purple, external third of a 
deep sandy yellowish colour ; a broad subcentral transverse band indicated by marginal 
sinuated limiting black lines ; a black discocellular litura ; disk slightly darker than the outer 
border, its limit barely visible excepting at costa, sinuated ; a submarginal series of minute 
Ifiack dots : secondaries stone-brown ; costa white ; outer margin and fringe sa)idy whitish ; 
a series of dusky marginal liturai : body brown, abdomen greyish. Under surface sandy 
yellowish ; wings with a grey discal line ; primaries greyish, excepting at the borders. 
Expanse of wdngs 1 inch 3 lines. 
Yokohama (Jonas). 
PLUSIID^. 
PLUSIA, Ochs. 
Plusia Jessica. (Plate XLVI. fig. G.) 
Plusia Jessica, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 201 (1878). 
Allied to P. ni, but tbe primaries darker and more sericeous ; a brassy 7 instead of the 
central silvery markings ; the discal line rather less irregrrlar ; the edge of the outer border 
rather more irregular, more uniform in tint ; a marginal series of pale-edged triangular black 
spots instead of the marginal lines ; secondaries greyer, without the abruptly darker border ; 
tliorax darker : wings below greyer, without the pale border. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 
Yokohama (Jonas). 
Plusia mikadma. (Plate XLVI. fig. 7.) 
Plusia mikadina, Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 202 (1878). 
X^early allied to P. concha, but rather paler, the golden c.-shaped marking of primaries 
replaced by a larger brassy O ; the outer or discal line more deeply sinuated, and the 
golden patch bounded by it on tbe inner margin of double the width •, all the golden patches 
paler, the discoidal spots narrower and more angular : wings below much paler, the discal 
streaks wider apart, the outer one of primaries more strongly angulated. Expanse of wings 
1 inch 7 lines. 
Hakodate (Whitely) ; Yokohama (Jonas). 
