PHTTO:xrETEA. 477 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing redder brown, the kst with the 

 silver defining the marking ahiiost obsolete. 



Mcih. TRx^svxAh (Cholmh'i/), 1 9, White E. (Cool-e), 1 6 

 type; Natal, Dui-ban (Lines), 1 6 . Exp. 3G-3S milliiu. 



8302. Phytometra microstigma. (Plate CCXXXVII. %. 16.) 

 Tlusia microstigma, Hnipsn. A. M. I!f. H. (8) v. p. 433 (1910). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish broAvn mixed Avith grey ; 

 antenna- with the shaft ringed with white towards base ; tarsi 

 rino-ed witli white. Fore wing golden bronze-brown thickly 

 irrorated Avith grey ; traces of an oblique antemedial line ; the 

 stigma below the cell small, oblique V-shaped, bent outwards below, 

 its outer arm and a small spot in its apex silvery-white ; orbicular 

 and reniform very indistinctly defined by grey, the former rather 

 oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at middle" ; an oblique 

 indistinct rather diifused line fi'om lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line indistinct, oblique, sinuous ; ti-aces of a 

 dark subterminal line, excurved below vein 7, angled inwards at 

 discal and submedian folds and outwards below vein 4 ; a series of 

 minute white sti'ise just before termen. Hind mng unifonn golden 

 bronze-brown ; the cilia with a pale line at base and white tips ; 

 the underside white thickly u-rorated with brown, the terminal 

 area broadly fuscous with some white irroration near termen. 



Hah. Gold Coast (JoJinsfcn), 1 5 type. Exj). 26 millim. 



8303. Phytometra daubei. 



rijisia dauhei, Boisrl. Gen. & Ind. MeHi. p. 159 (1840); Diip. Le'p. Fr. 



Suppl. iii. p. 486, pi. 42. f. 1 ; Herr.-Scliiitf. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 20(j ; 



Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 6. f. 6; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 70. ff. 5-7; 



Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. .572; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239. 

 Tlusia ciliarix, \Ylk. xii. 928 (1857) ; Biitl. 111. Het. B.M. vi. p. 3('., 



pi. no. f. 5. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with reddish brown and some 

 black-brown, the vertex of head with two blackish striae ; teguhe 

 with curved black Ime at middle ; palpi with white ring at 

 extremity of 2nd joint ; the tibiae at exti'cmities and tarsi ringed 

 Avith white ; abdomen whitish suffused with pale brown, the crests 

 darker, the lateral tufts of male ochreous. Fore Aving wliite 

 suffused Avith pale golden-broAvn and striated Avith dark brown ; 

 subbasal line white defined on each side by dark brown, from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line sih-ery-Avhite defined on each side by 

 broAvn, angled outwards beloAv costa and at median nervure, 

 inciu-ved in cell and submedian fold, then excurved ; orbicular with 

 silvery-white outline, its centre defined by blackish, very narrow 

 and oblique ; an elongate oblique silvery-Avhite V-shap^d stigma 

 below the cell, extending beloAv vein 2 to near the postmedial line, 

 some golden-broAvn suffusion before and beyond it ; reniform Avith 

 silverv-white outline, its centre defined by blackish, constricted at 



