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Show 1889.] LEPIDOPTERA OF JAPAN A N D COREA. 533 269. PLUSIA ORNATISSIMA. Plusia ornatissima, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xv. p. 1786 (1858). Plusia locuples, Oberth. Etud. d'Ent. v. p. 85, pi. ix. fig. 3 (1880). Three examples, coll. Pryer (nos. 909 & 914). I have received from my native collector one specimen taken at Hakodate in June or July. Yokohama, Nikko (Pryer) ; Hakodate (Nat. Coll.) ; Askold, N. India. 270. PLUSIA RUTILIFRONS. Plusia rutilifrons, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xv. p. 1785 (1858). Several specimens, coll. Pryer. Varies considerably in depth of colour. Yokohama (Pryer); Hakodate, Nikko (Nat. Coll.) ; N. China. 271. PLUSIA PYROPIA. Plusia pyropia, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) iv. p. 267 (1878). Four specimens, coll. Pryer. My native collector took one example at Gensan in July. Oiwake (Pryer) ; Gensan (Nat. Coll.) 272. PLUSIA PURISSIMA. Plusia purissima, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 202 (1878); 111. Typ. Lep. Het. ii. pi. xxxi. fig. 11 (1878). ' Several specimens, coll. Pryer. I took an example at Nagasaki in May and one at Gensan in July. Tokio (Fenton) ; Yokohama (Pryer) ; Nagasaki, Gensan (Leech). 273. PLUSIA OCHRATA. Plusia ochrata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 839 (1865). One example coll. Pryer, and one from my native collector, who took it at Gensan. Yokohama (Pryer) ; Gensan (Nat. Coll.) ; Ceylon. 274. PLUSIA NI. Noctua ni, Hiibn. Noct. pi. 58. fig. 284. Plusia ni, Treit. Schmett. v. p. 189 ; Guen. Noct. ii. p. 349. One example, coll. Pryer. Yokohama ? (Pryer) ; Europe, New York. 275. PLUSIA CHEIRANTHI. Plusia cheiranthi, Tausch. Mem. Mosc. 1809, p. 322, t. ii. fig. 6. Plusia eugenia, Eversm. Bull. Nat. Mosc. 1841, i. p. 32, t. 3. fig. 3, 4 ; Guen. Noct. ii. p. 329. Var. Plusidia abrostoloides, Butl. 111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. 28, pi. xlvii. fig. 5(1879). Two examples, coll. Pryer. Oiwake (Pryer) ; Europe, South Ural, Amur. |
