4(30 noctutd.t:. 



gold, the medial area below submedian fold brilliant gold ; a slight 

 chocolate-brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line chocolate-brown, indistinctly double, inwardly oblique 

 below the cell ; an oblique elliptical golden spot with silvery 

 annidus below middle of cell, with a minute silvery spot well 

 beyond its lower extremity ; reniform faintly defined by chocolate- 

 brown, oblique ; a faint oblique sinuous brown line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line chocolate-l)rown, 

 indistinctly double, excurved below costa, then oblique and slightly 

 sinuous, angled inwards in submedian fold, then excurved ; sub- 

 teraainal line chocolate-brown, rather diffused, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold, angled outwards l)elow 

 veins 4, 3 and ending at tornus ; a slight chocolate-brown line 

 before termen except towards tornus ; cilia dark brown. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused '\\4th cupreous brown ; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia Avhitish ; the underside Avhite faintly tinged with brown, 

 a faint brown subterminal shade. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern States, 3 d , 1 $ , Massachusetts, Xew 

 York, New Jersey, Florida, Kansas, Texas ; Mexico, Jalapa 

 {TrujiUo), 1 J, 1 $, Tabasco, Teapa {H. H. Smith), 1 $, 

 Ventanas (Fort^er), 1 § ; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. ( Under- 

 wood), 1 2 ; PAXAirA, San Felix {Cliamjnon), 1 $, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll., Cana mines {Tylecote), 1 $ ; Jamaica {Elmsley), 

 1 $ 'type rutila, Runaway Bay {Walsinr/liam), 1 <S ; Cuba, 

 Matanzas (ScJiavs), 1 cJ ; Dominica {Eliot't), 1 $ ; St. Yixcexx 

 (H. H, SmifJi), 2 2 ; Colombia, Bogoti (Stevens), 1 $ ; 

 Venezuela (Dyson), 1 $ ; Br. Guiana (Rodicay), 1 6 . Exp. 

 30-34 millim. 



8289. Phytometra hemichalcea, n. sp. 

 (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 8.) 



5 • Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish ; 

 alidonu'u whitish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing red-brown 

 mixed with greyish and almost entirely suffused with cupreous 

 gold ; subbasal line silvery defined on outer side by brovni, ex- 

 curved below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line silvery slightly defined on each side b}' brown, incm'ved in 

 cell, then oblique and sinuous ; orbicular narrow, oblique, defined 

 b}' whitish ; an oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma below middle 

 of cell, filled in with gold and its tail formed by a small spot ; 

 reniform very faintly defined by brown ; traces of a medial brown 

 line from the stigma to inner margin ; postmedial line double, 

 brown filled in with gold, excurved below costa and at middle, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, diffused, brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and below 

 veins 4 and 3, ending at tornus ; a white line just before termen 

 except at apex. Hind wing cupreous brown ; cilia white tinged 

 with brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a slight 



