. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PHTTOMETBA. 469 Plusia innata, Herr.-Scbaff. Oorresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Eegensb. xxii p. 184 (1868). Phtsia comma, Schultz, Inteim. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). Plusia vi, desertioola, Oberth. ined. Eoths. ?Nov. Zool. xx. p. 129 (1913). Head and thorax rufous mixed with whitish, the tegulse with sHght blackish line at middle defined behind by white scales ; abdo- men pale rufous, the crests red-brown and whitish, the ventral surface white tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish irrorated and striated with black-brown and su
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. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. PHTTOMETBA. 469 Plusia innata, Herr.-Scbaff. Oorresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Eegensb. xxii p. 184 (1868). Phtsia comma, Schultz, Inteim. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). Plusia vi, desertioola, Oberth. ined. Eoths. ?Nov. Zool. xx. p. 129 (1913). Head and thorax rufous mixed with whitish, the tegulse with sHght blackish line at middle defined behind by white scales ; abdo- men pale rufous, the crests red-brown and whitish, the ventral surface white tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish irrorated and striated with black-brown and suffused with red-brown with a golden cupreous gloss ; subbasal line white defined on each side by red-brown and with a black striga before it below the cell, sinuous, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, red-brown filled in with white, waved, oblique below the cell; orbicular white, its centre defined by red-brown, oblique elliptical; an oblique silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell, with spot beyond its lower extremity with some red-brown in centre, its arms filled in with white; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely. Fig. 121.—Phytometra ni, (^. {. waved, bent outwards below submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on outer side by white and with short black streaks before it from below costa to above vein 4, dentate ; a fine white line before teimen and a fine dai'k terminal line ; cilia with a white line at base followed by a series of red-brown lunules. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous red-brown, the terminal area cupreous red-brown ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ; the under- side white tinged with rufous, the costal area irrorated with brown and the terminal area slightly suffused with brown. Ab. 1. coimna. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y-mark. Ab. 2. deserticola. Fore wing slightly paler an