472 xocTUiuj:. 



8295. Phytometra limbirena. 



Tliisia gamna, KoU. Hligel's Kaschmir, iv. p. 481 (iicc Linn.). 

 riusia limbirena, Guen. Noet. ii. p. ^50 (1852); Moore, Lep. Cejl. iii. 

 p. 72, pi. 152. f. 5 ; Iliupsn. Moths Ind. ii, p. 668. 



Head and thorax dark chocolate-broAvn mixed with grey-white ; 

 tegulse with black line at middle and whitish tip.s ; tarsi dark brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen pale brown with some white hair at 

 base of sides, the crests dark brown, the lateral tufts of male rufous, 

 the ventral surface brown mixed with grey. Fore wing pui-plish 

 grey suffused in parts with deep chocolate-brown and irrorated with 

 black, the medial area Avith a deep chocolate-brown patch below the 

 cell ; subbasal line slight, pale, sinuous, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, chocolate-brown filled in with silvery- 

 white, waved, incurved in cell and oblique below the cell ; orbicular 

 with faint pale outline and its cenb'e defined by blackish, naiTow, 

 oblique, constricted at middle; an oblique brilliant silver U-shaped 

 stigma below the cell, its lower extremity somewhat bent inwards 

 and Arith an elliptical spot beyond it; reniform very faintly defined 

 by black-brown ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown, filled in 

 with silver at inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and minutelv waved, ans^rled inwards at submedian fold and bent 

 outwards below it, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, dark, with some silvery points on its 

 outer side, chocolate-brown shades before it from costa to vein -1 

 and below vein 2, and beyond it at middle, the line excurved below 

 vein 7, then incurved ; a fine Avaved black terminal line with minute 

 strife before it on apical half, and a tiesh-coloured spot defined on 

 inner side by black at middle. Hind wing white, the inner area 

 suffused with cupreous brown, the veins and teiiuinal area dark 

 cujjreous l)rown ; cilia white with a cupreous brown line through 

 them ; the underside white irrorated with brown especially on costal 

 area, the terminal area suffused with broAvn, a slight discoidal striga 

 and diffused postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing Avith the stigma in the form of a Y-mark. 



Hind tibiae with the comb formed by two spines only. 



Hab. St. Helena ( WoUasfon), 2 J , 3 $ ; Be. E.\\fbica, Eh 

 Urru {Bctton), 1 J, 1 $, Lagari (Beffoii), 1 $, Machakos 

 (Cniu'shfii/), 1 c5', 1 $ ; Uganda, Entebbe {Wollaston), 1 $, 

 Ruvvenzori ( Wollaston), 1 $ ; Gekm. E. Africa, Utangu Distr. 

 (Neave), 1 S ; Masiioxalaxb, Salisbury {MarsliaU), 2 cJ , 1 $ ; 

 .Loi{E\(;o IMarques (Jmtod), 1 c?, 1 $; Traxsa'aal, White 11. 

 (Cooke), 1 2 , Pretoria (Distant), 1 $ ; Natal, Estcoui-t (Hutchin- 

 son), 1 9, Durban (Clark), 1 cf ; Cape Coloxy (Sir A. Smit/i), 

 1 (S , I ? ; M.VDAGASCAR, Betsileo (Cowan), 1 $ ; Mal-ritivs, 

 Curepipe (Tiilloch), 1 $ ; Aden ( Ycrbury), 1 6 ; Madras, Nilgiris 

 (Ilainpson), 4 S ; Ceylox (Gretni),! ^ ,}Liiwi\y (2£cade-Walilo), 

 1 $ , Udagama (Mackicood), 1 S • J^-^T- 32-42 millim. 



