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Genus PLUSIODONTA. 
Plusiodonta, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 359 (1852) 
Deva. Walk. xii. 962 (1857) 
Gadera, Walk. xii. 964 (1857) 
Odontina, Guen. Maillard’s Reunion Lep. p. 42 
(1862) 
Tafalla, Walk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 42 (1869) . 
Type. 
compressipalpis, Guen. 
stimulans, Walk. 
incitans, Walk. 
excavata, Guen. 
clavifera, Walk. 
Plusiodonta basirhabdota, n. sp. 
q. Head and thorax red- brown mixed with purplish grey ; 
antennae and palpi dark red- brown ; pectus and legs whitish 
suffused with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; 
abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface white suffused with 
brown. Fore wing purple-grey suffused with brown, a 
triangular patch from costa on which it extends from base 
to near middle, to above vein 1 and the terminal area dark 
red-brown ; the patch with two slight yellowish bars suffused 
with red, its edges defined by silvery whitish and with the 
slight dark antemedial line from its apex to inner margin ; 
a fine double oblique slightly waved dark medial line, a 
dark brown shade beyond it from below costa to the tooth 
on inner margin ; reniform with pale annulus and its centre 
defined by brown, slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; 
postmedial line fine, double, brown, excurved below costa 
and between veins 5 and 3, then oblique to vein 2 where 
there are dark points before and beyond it, angled outwards 
below vein 2, then again oblique to inner margin ; an oblique 
silvery white streak from apex below which there is some 
black beyond it to inner margin just beyond the postmedial 
line ; subterminal line blackish, slightly angled outwards at 
veins 7 and 6, incurved at discal fold, then excurved and with 
whitish bar on it from the silvery streak to vein 4, incurved 
below vein 3, then slightly waved to inner margin ; a white 
line before termen between veins 6 and 4 and a slight waved 
white line on termen from apex to vein 4 ; cilia with some 
grey towards apex and below submedian fold. Hind wing 
grey-brown, the cilia whitish at tips. Underside pale grey- 
brown, the costa of fore wing irrorated with whitish. 
Hab. Br. E. Africa, N. Kavirondo, Slopes of Mt. Elgon 
( Neave ), 1 $ type. Exp. 36 millim. 
Plusiodonta achalcea, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some 
white ; pectus and legs whitish mixed with red-brown, the 
tarsi pale brown ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey-brown, 
the crests red -brown mixed with whitish, the ventral surface 
white slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing bright red- 
