PHTTOMETEA. 465 



whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal striga, sinuous 

 postmedial Une, and faint subterniinal shade. 



Hah. UGAJfDA, Kuwenzori {Wollaston), 1 ? ; Teaxsvaal, 

 Pretoria {Distant), 1 d" ; Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 6, 

 1 $ type, Dui-ban {Clark), 1 6. Exp. 30-34 milhm. 



8287. Phytometra circumscripta. 



Pluaia circumscrijyta, Frr. Nene Beitr. i. p. 42, pi. 23. f. 2 (1831) ; Geyer, 

 Eur. Schnictt., Noct. f. 855 ; l)up. Lep. Fr. Siippl. iii. p. 48"J, pi. 42. 

 f. 2; Stand. Cut. Lep. pal. p. 237. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with pui-ple-grey, the 

 tegulse fiery red at base ; abdomen grey-brown suffused with 

 rufous, the crests dark brown and grey at tips. Fore wing 

 purple-grey suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the inner half 

 of medial area and the terminal area excejjt at apex and tornus 

 bright iTifous with a golden gloss ; subbasal line slight, silvery- 

 whitish, from costa to submedian fold, a rufous and gold patch 

 be^^ond it below the cell ; a silvery stigma below the cell consisting 

 of a veiy narrow oblique U-shaped mark with streak fi'om it to 

 antemedial line on median nervure and elliptical spot beyond its 

 lower extremity ; postmedial line brown defined on outer side by 

 silvery-whitish and with a silver line before it from vein 3 to inner 

 margin, oblique, excurved above inner margin, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, brownish, oblique 

 to vein o and slightly excurved at middle, some silvery-white on it 

 below vein 2 ; a silveiy-white teiininal line from just below apex to 

 vein 2. Hind Aving whitish suffused Avith cupreous brown, the 

 terminal area cupreous brown, a slight brown postmedial line ; cilia 

 whitish with a brown line near base ; the vmderside whitish tinged 

 and irro rated with red-brown, a rather diffused brown postmedial 

 line and faint subterminal shade. 



Hab. Sicily, 2 6 ; Geeece, 1 6 ; Ceete ; Syeia. Exi). 30- 

 30 millim. 



8288. Phytometra verruca. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 7.) 



Noctua 00, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 45, pi. 311. f. F (1782), nee f. E. 

 Noctua verruca, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 81 (1794) ; Oltolengui, J. N.Y. 



Ent. Soc. X. pi. viii. f. 2 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 250. 

 Argyrogyamma omega, Hiibn. ZiUr. ii. p. 29, ff. 373-4 (1823). 

 Aufographa omicron, Hiibn. Verz. p. 251 (1827), 

 Tlusia qucBstionw, Treit. Sclimett. Eur. x. 2. p. 132 (1835), nee Fabr. 

 riusia rutila, Wlk. x.vxiii. 837 (1865). 



Head yellow suffused with fiery red, the antennae brownish; 

 thorax deep brown, some of the scales tipped witli grey ; pectus 

 and hind legs brownish white ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 brown, the crests deep brown. Fore wing greyish sutt'iised and 

 irrorated with deep brown and almost entii'ely glossed with brilhant 



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