PHTTOMETRA. 471 



darker ; cilia wliite with a red-brown line near base ; the underside 

 white tinged with rufous, a diffused brown postniedial hne, the area 

 beyond it suffused witli greyish brown. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with the stigma below the cell fonuing a 

 Y-niark. 



Hah. N. S.Wales, Sydney (i^wi^/Y), 2 $ type; S. Australia, 

 Parkside {Lower), 1 5 • £xj). 36 milliiu. 



8294. Phytometra angulum. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 12.) 

 Plusia angulum, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 350 (1852). 



Head and thorax bright rufous, the tegulae with slight brown 

 line at middle and white tips, and some of the scales of thorax 

 tipped with white ; tarsi brown ringed Avith white ; abdomen 

 ouhreous suffused with rufous, the crests rufous with some Avhite at 

 tips. Fore \\4ng pui-ple-brown iiTorated with white and suffused 

 Avith golden cupreous especially on terminal area except toAvards 

 tornus, the medial area Avith a deeper rufous patch beloAV the cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by two slight oblique Avhite striae from 

 costa ; antemedial line slight, Avhitish, oblique to middle of cell, 

 then AvaA'ed ; orbicular defined by Avhitish except above and Avith 

 some Avhitish in centre, oblique elliptical ; an oblique bnlliant 

 silver Y-shaped stigma beloAv the cell, its anus Avith some Avhite 

 betAveen them, its tail short and dilated at extremity ; reniform 

 deep rufous Avith slight Avhitish outline A^ery strongly constricted at 

 middle ; postniedial line nifous, bent outwards beloAV costa, then 

 AvaA'ed to vein 5, oblique to submedian fold Avhere it is angled in- 

 Avards, then bent outAvards, some Avhite points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, broAvnish, slightly excurved beloAV vein 7, 

 angled inwards at discal fold, excurA^d beloAV veins 4 and 3 and 

 aboA^e A'ein 1 ; a fine silvery-Avhite line before tennen Avith slight 

 streaks before it in the interspaces from below apex to A'ein 2 ; the 

 termen and cilia grey mixed Avith purj^le-brown. Hind Aving 

 cchreous tinged Avith cupreous broAAni, the terminal area darker ; 

 cilia ochreous white Avith a broAvn line near base ; the underside 

 ochreous white tinged Avith brown, the terminal area suffused A\ith 

 broAA'n. 



Hab. Tra>"SA'aal, Pretoria {Distant), 1 S, Johannesburg 

 {Boss), 1 (S; Natal, Fort Nottingham {Hornbi/), 1 $, Marits- 

 burg {Berenshiirf/), 1 §, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 J, 3 $, 

 Durban {3Iarshall, Leigh), 1 c?, 1 $ ; Basl'tolaji'd, Maseru 

 {Crawshay), 1 6; Cape Colony {Lreye, Trimen), \6, 1 $, 

 Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 3^,1$. Exp. 38-12 millim. 



Larva. Pale green ; dorsal line doulile, fine, Avhite ; subdorsal 

 line formed by obscure sinuous Avhitish striie ; a stronger Avhite 

 lateral line ; warts with one hair ; tAvo anterior pairs of prolegs 

 absent. 



