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8290. Phytometra tarassota, n. n. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 13.) 



riusia coiifusa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 149 (1882), nee Stephens, 1850 ; 

 Hinpsa. Mutbs Iiul. ii. p. 568. 



Head and thorax bi'own mixed with ochreous and a few black 

 scales ; antennte blackish ; tegular tip]x'd Avith white ; tibi;e and 

 tarsi ringed with whitish, the spui's bkick and white ; abdomen 

 l)rownish ochreons, the crests browner. Fore wing ochreous 

 irrorated and suffused with brown Avdth a golden gloss, especially on 

 inner half of medial area and before the subterminal line ; subbasal 

 line white, cxcurved below costa and ending at vein l,a black striga 

 before it below the cell ; antemedial line whitish defined on each 

 side by brown, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, 

 oblique and sinuous below the cell, two slight black marks before it 

 on inner margin ; orbicular with whitish annulus, narrow, oblique ; 

 an oblique silvery U-shaped stigma below the cell, with a spot 

 beyond its lower extremity ; reniform very obscurely defined with 

 fovu" black points in its angles ; postmedial line double, bi'own 

 filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutel}'^ 

 waved, somewhat incurved at discal fold and angled inwards below 

 submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line Avhitish defined on inner side by golden-brown suffusion, angled 

 outwards at veins 7, 6 and excm'ved above and below vein 3 ; a line 

 formed of whitish stri« before temaen, a terminal series of slight 

 bkickish lunules, and a fine Avhite line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 brown with a golden gloss ; cilia white with a brown line near base ; 

 the underside ochreous Avhite irrorated with brown, the terminal 

 area suffused Avith brown, a brown discoidal lunule and rather 

 diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma forming a Y-mark. 



Hah. SiKiiiM, 2 c^ , 2 2 type ; Madras, Nilgiris, 1 $ . Exp. 36- 

 40 millim. 



8297. Phytometra furcifera. 



riusia furcifera, Wlk. xii. 927 (1857) ; Hmpsii. Mollis Iiul. ii. p. 568. 

 Plusia mutans, Wlk. xxxiii. 839 (1865); Hinpsn. 111. Het. E.M. ix. p. 101, 



pi. 102. f. 6. 

 Plusia ocjovana. Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 9 (1894). 

 Plusia babooni, Eeth.-Eaker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906). 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with whitish ; tegulse with 

 black line at middle and white tips ; pectus and legs white tinged 

 with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen white 

 tinged with brown, the crest rufous and white, Fore wing white 

 thickly irrorated and striated with red-l)rown and glossed with 

 golden cupreous ; subbasal line whitish delined on eacli side by 

 red-brown, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line whitish 

 defined on each side by red-brown, angled inwards in cell and 

 inwardly oblicpie below the cell ; orbicular witli wliitish annulus, 

 narrow, oblitpie ; an oblique silvery-wliite Y-shaped stigma below 



