4o8 



N0CTUIDJ3. 



])lackish mark l)03'ond it on its outer edj^o above and Ijl'Iow vein 4. 

 Hind wing dark enpreous brown, the cilia greyish at tips ; the 

 underside witli tlie basal half greyish brown, the terminal half 

 fuscous, the termen greyish. 



J[(ih. Gaboon, Ogowe 11., typo f cJ in Coll. Holland. Ex^). 

 30 millim. 



82S0. Piiytometra pliocea. 



Fhisia phocca, Hin]isn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 433 flOlO). 



Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; tarsi ringed 

 A\ith whitish ; abdomen pale ochreous brown, the basal crest and 

 ventral suii'ace grey-brown. Fore wing red-brown with a silvery 

 grey gloss ; subbasal line sliglit, whitish, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line obsolete on costal half, slight oblique and silveiy- 

 from cell to inner margin, slightly defined on inner side by dark 

 brown and on outer by a dark shade expanding into a triangular 

 patch below the stigma, which is indistinct silvery U-shaped with 

 a silvery- white point beyond its lower extremity; reniform very 



Fig. 119. — Fhytomctra plwcca, S- \- 



indistinct, dark brown with slight silvery points on its inner and 

 outer edges, rather quadrate ; an indistinct brown spot at middle 

 of cost:! and oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin; 

 postmedial line slight, silvery defined on each side by dark brown, 

 excurved l)elow costa, then oblique, excurved at middle and bent 

 outwards below submedian fold ; subterminal line silveiy-grey 

 defined on inner side by dark brown suffusion, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, then slightly incurved and oblique to tornus, some dark 

 suffusion beyond it at middle ; a series of slight silvery striae just 

 before termen. Hind wing brown with a cupreous gloss; cilia 

 white at tips; the underside whitish siiffused with brown, the 

 terminal area broadly fuscous brown. 



Hah. Uganda, Mabiiu Forest, Chagwe {Neavc), 1 $ , Mbale, 

 Mt. Kokanjero (iW/rr). 1 $; Natal. I)url)an {E. L. ClarJc). 

 2 6 type. Exj). 30 millim. 



