niYTOMETRA. 403 



aS. Fore with without black-brown 

 patch on medial area below the 



cell danbci. 



i". Fore wing with blnck-brown 

 patch on medial area below the 



cell indicator. 



I/'. Fore wing with tho markings not 



silvery-w hite ohiuihigna. 



d*. Fore wing willi the stigma below tiie cell 

 ■very elongate and oblique V-shaped with 



its lower part not bent outwards Icclida. 



e*. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell 

 formed by two obliquely-placed elongate 



elliptical silvery spots disfulagma. 



P. Fore wing with the postmedial and terniinal 

 areas metallic gold. 

 fC*. Fore wing with the golden area emitting 

 an oblique spur to the cell below the 



orbicular Imichijchahea, 



/('. Fore wing with the golden area n(it 

 emitting an oblique spur to the cell 

 below the orbicular hipariiia. 



8284. Phytometra gammaloba. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 5.) 



Plusia gammaloba, Hmpsii. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 430 (1910). 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with grey ; teguhe 

 with slight dark medial line and white tips ; abdomen pale iiifous, 

 the basal crest fiery red tipped with grey, the crest on 2nd segment 

 brown tipped with grey. Fore wing bright golden cupreous with 

 slight dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by a silvery striga 

 from costa and double striga from cell ; antemedial line silvery 

 defined by cupreous brown, excurved below costa, angled inwards 

 in cell, oblique and sinuous from cell to inner margin ; the stigma 

 foiined by a small black spot defined at sides by silvery stria? 

 above median nervure and a Y-shaped silvery mark below the 

 cell filled m with whitish, its tail bent outwards and dilated into a 

 triangular lobe filled in with silvery-white ; reniform represented 

 by a silvery striga on upper discocellular with elliptical cupreous 

 bi'own mark beyond it and two silvery stria? below forming with 

 the median nervure an incomplete triangle ; postmedial line in- 

 distinctly double filled in with silvery-grey, oblitpiely curved 

 and minutely waved from costa to submedian fold where it is 

 angled inwards, then bent outwards, some grey-white suffusion 

 before and beyond it from costa to vein 3, narrowing below ; 

 subterminal line silvery-white, excurved from costa to vein G, 

 then oblique, some grey-white beyond it at middle and m sub- 

 median interspace ; a fine silvery-white line just before termen ; 

 cilia grey-white mixed with cupreijus brown. Hind wing cupreous 

 brown, the cilia with fine whitish line at base and white tips ; the 

 underside whitish suffused and irrorated with red-brown, an in- 

 distinct oblique ])ostmedial line, the area be^'ond it dark brown 

 with a cupreous gloss. 



