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waved whitish lines hefore it ; ciUa ochreous white. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with golden hrown, the terminal area darker ; a 

 terminal series of slight dark strise ; cilia white with brown sti'iae 

 near base ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with dark brown, 

 a brown discoidal spot and rather diffused postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Hah. Dl-tck N. Guixea, Fak-fak {Pratt), 2 6 type. Exp. 

 3G millim. 



8299. Phytometra ablusa. 

 Plusia ahlu.m, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 34 (1874). 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with some red-brown and 

 greyish; abdomen Avhitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing 

 golden yellow tinged and irrorated with rufous, the end of cell, the 

 area beyond the cell, and the terminal area suffused with pale 

 purple, the veins with slight dark streaks ; sidjbasal line red-brown, 

 sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line red-brown, sinuous 

 to median nervure, then obliquely curved ; orbicular indistinct, 

 golden, oblique elliptical; an elongate nan-ow obhque V-shaped 

 golden stigma defined by red-brown below the cell, its lower part 

 bant outwards ; reniform faintly defined by red-broAvn ; a red- 

 brown medial line oblique to the renifonn, then inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below costa, obliquely 

 curved to vein 3, then slightly incurved and excurved below sub- 

 median fold ; subterminal line red- brown, slightly excurved below 

 veins 7, 4, 3 ; a red-brown line before termen from costa to vein 3. 

 Hind wing white tinged wdth red-brown, the veins and terminal 

 half suffused with red-b^ow^^ ; cilia pale rufous with a red-brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with rufous, a 

 diffused red-brown postmedial line. 



Hah. Traxstaal, Pretoria (Distant), 1 2 ; Natal, Estcom-t 

 (Hutchinson), 1 $ ; Cape Coloxt, Dordi-echt, 1 J, Knysna. 

 £x2). 3G millim. 



8300. Phytometra limata. 



Noclua lunata, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. lfi.3 (1787). 



Plusia anarff i/ra, Gueu. Noct. ii. p. 351 (1852); Ilnipsn. Moths Iiul. ii. 



p. 575. 

 Plnsia spoliata, Wlk. sii. 923 (1857) ; Hiupsn. 111. Ilet. 13. M. viii. p. IG. 



pi. 149. f. 7. 

 Plusia reticulata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 148 (1882). 



Head and thorax ]>m-plish red-brown slightly mixed with grey, 

 the teguliT! and dorsal crt'st in front with some fulvous yellow; 

 antennai ringed brown and white ; abdomen grey-brown, tlie crests 

 dark brown and grey. Fore wing chocolate-brown suffused with 

 pvirple and slightly irrorated with white, the veins fhiely streaked 

 with white ; subbasal line fine, silvery-white, sinuous, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line fine, silvery-white, excurved 

 below costa, strongly incurved in cell, angled outwards at median 



