PHTTOMETEA, 455 



pale violaceous grey irroi-atecl vdth a few black scales and suffused 

 in parts with brown, es]x>cially the medial area below the cell and 

 the area before the subtenninal line ; subbasal line silvery- white 

 defined on each side by black-brown, from costa to submedian fold; 

 antemedial line silvery-white defined on each side by black-brown, 

 cxcurved beUiw costa, almost obsolete in cell, then excurved and 

 slightly waved; orbicular a faint blackish U-shaped mark; an 

 oblique silveiy Y-shaped mark below the cell, defined by black and 

 its arms filled in Avith grey ; renifonn defined liy brown and with 

 white striiE at inner and outer extremites below, slightly constricted 

 at middle and angled inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct 

 diffused brown medial line, excurved to vein 2, then incurA^ed ; 

 postmedial line double, brown filled in with violaceous grey, angled 

 inwards at discal fold, obliijue from vein 4 to submedian fold whe'-'e 



Fig. 117. — VJujtomctra lavendiila, (^ . {. 



it is angled inwards, angled outwards at vein 1, some white striae 

 with dark streaks between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line white defined on inner side by brown suffusion, slightly 

 incurved below costa and strongly at discal fold, angled outwards 

 below vein 4, then incurved and ending at tornus ; dentate brown 

 shades before termen beloAV apex and at middle ; a fine waved dark 

 terminal line mth a pair of minute black spots at vein 4 ; cilia 

 white, chequered %ith black at the veins. Hind Aving Avhite tinged 

 Avith broAvn, the terminal area suffused Avith brown ; a Avhitish 

 subterminal mark at discal fold and terminal mark below vein 2 ; 

 cilia Avhite chequered Avith brown at the veins ; the underside AAdiite 

 Avith diffused brownish postmedial and subterminal lines. 

 Ilab. Cape CoLO^fY, 1 d type. Uxj^. 42 millun. 



*8277. Phytometra gerda. (Plate CC XXXVII. fig. 1.) 



riusiagerda, Tiing. Iris, xix. p. 224, pi. 8. f. 8 (1907). 



S . Head rufous ; tliorax Avhitish suffused A\ath i-ufous ; abdomen 

 Avhitish suffused with brown, the crests rufous tipped with Avhite, 

 the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore Aving lu-ownish Avhite sparsely 

 striated with brown, the medial area red-brown below tlie cell and 

 suffused with red-broAvn towards costa ; antemedial line whitish 

 slightly defined on inner side by red-brown, excurved below costa, 

 incurved in cell, then obliquely excm'ved; the stigmata purple- 



