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Ronkay, L.: Taxonomic and zoogeographical studies on the subfamily Plusiinae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). The Palaeotropical, Oriental and Nearctic material of the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen
on the basis of the very different configuration of the vesica of these genera they can easily be separated. The structure of the copulatory organ shows some similarities to the species of the genera Zonoplusia CHOU et Lu, 1979 and Dactyloplusia CHOU et Lu 1979 (the latter genus represents a transitional stage between Trichoplusia and Acanthoplusia and is very probably only a subgenus of Trichoplusia), but in the genus Scriptoplusia the clavus has very characteristic membranous basal part and the vesica is very different from those of Zonoplusia and Dactyloplusia. The new genus should be placed next to Trichoplusia. Scriptoplusia noona sp. n. (Plate: 1-2) Holotype : male, ''Philippines, Tawi Tawi, Tarawakan, north of Batu Batu, 26. Oct. 1961, Noona Dan Exp. 61-62", "coll. ZM Copenhagen", "gen. prep. No. 1980 L. Ronkay"; deposited in the coll. ZM Copenhagen. — Paratype: \ çf, from same locality, 27. Oct. 1961, slide No. 2055 Ronkay ; deposited in the coll. ZM Copenhagen. Description : alar expanse 27 mm, length of fore wing 12 mm. Head brown with violaceous hairs, frons with some ochreous at middle laterally, covered by brown lobes, palpi dark brown with small white spots on each joints. Collar violaceous brown with light orange-brown inner side, tip of collar finely greyish. Thoracic crest and tufts violaceous with ochreous-brown hairs. Abdomen light ochreous grey, dorsally darker, dorsal crest dark brown, abdominal coremata well developed, short, laterally ochreous, caudally dark blackish-brown. Fore wing dark brown with strong violaceous irroration and cupreous-bronze shine, mostly in marginal area. Subbasal line short and sinuous, fine, silvery grey, basal field with dark blackish-brown spots between veins and some bronze shine of these spots. Antemedial line whitish-grey with some rosy shade, oblique from costa to cell and below cell, but strongly angulate around orbicular spot; defined by brown on both sides. Orbicular spot small, oblique and flattened, incompletely encircled with pale grey, with some blackish spots inside. Reniform spot elongate, constricted at middle, with some blackish spots inside and with one or two silvery spot(s) at lower edge; finely encircled with greyish annulus and filled with brown. Upper part of medial line obsolescent, well visible below stigma, fine silvery grey defined by brown, outside of median area lighter, more greyish. Stigma consisting of an oblique, U-shaped inner and a larger, rounded outer silvery spot, these spots conjoined to each other. Postmedial line light grey, sinuous with a deep arch Figs 11-16. 11-13 = Scriptoplusia noona sp. n. (11-12 = holotype, 13 — paratype), 14-16 = Scriptoplusia nigriluna WALKER
