PHTTOMETEA. 467 



brown discoidal striga, indistinct oblique postmedial line, and 

 faint subtevniinal shade. 



Hah. N. NiuEKiA, Ileslia {Humfret/), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 28 millim. 



8290. Phytometra dorfmeisteri. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 9.) 



Plmia dorfmrhteri, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 33 (1874). 



Plusia sicidifera, HoU. Psyclie, vii. p. 8 (1894). 



Plusia rhodochrysa, de Joan. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1903, p. 171, pi- 9. f. 3. 



2 . Head and thorax deep red-brown mixed with some yellowish 

 and white, the tegulte and patagia with whitish tips and the latter 

 with oblique whitish line across them ; pectus and legs yellowish 

 mixed with red-brown, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen yellowish 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing yellowish suffused and irrorated 

 with red-brown and glossed with brilliant metallic gold especially 

 on inner medial area, which has a black-brown patch below the 

 cell ; subbasal line represented by silver strise from costa and cell 

 defined on outer side by black ; antemedial line silvery defined on 

 outer side by black-brown, angled outwards below costa and in- 

 wards in cell, tlien oblique and slightly sinuous ; orbicular with 

 yellowish outline and its centre defined by black, oblique ; an 

 oblique silver Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its arms with yellow 

 between them and its tail slightly dilated ; reniform chocolate- 

 brown defined by black ; two small black spots at middle of costa ; 

 postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with gold, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, then waved, oblique below vein 3, and angled 

 inwards at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line blackish with black-brown shades before it from 

 costa to vein -4 and beyond it at middle, slightly excurved below 

 vein 7 and waved towards inner margin ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunides forming a bar at middle, defined on inner side by 

 whitish ; cilia whitish with an interrupted red-brown line through 

 them. Hind ^ving dark brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia whitish 

 with a brown line near base ; the underside with the basal half 

 whitish suffused with red-brown, the terminal half fuscous, a slight 

 brown tliscoidal striga. 



Hah. S. Nigeria, Ilesha (Hnmfrei/), 1 2; G-aboo^s-, Ogove 11., 

 type t sicidifera in Coll. Holland ; Natal, Durban {Leir/h, 

 Gool-e), 2 $ • Cape Coloxy. Knysna, type f ? in Coll. Kothschild ; 

 Mauritius. Exp. 30 millhn. 



8291. Phytometra brassicae. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 10.) 



Vlusia hrassic(e, Riley, 2nd Rept. Ins. Mo. p. 110, f. 81 (1870); Beth, 



Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont. 1871, p. 51, f. 93 ; Pack. Ilayden's 9tli Rept. Geol. 



Surv. p. 752, ff. a-c ; Oltolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. ix. f. 11 ; 



Druce, liiol. Centr.-Ani., Ilet. ii. p. 503 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 253. 

 Plusia echinocysiis, Behr, Streck. Lop. p. 94 (1874). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grev ; teguhc at middle and 



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