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whitish band beyond it and some whitish points on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line blackish defined on outer side by some silver, excurved 

 below vein 7, angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle, 

 tlien very minutely dentate ; a fine black terminal line preceded 

 by two whitish lines with a fine brown line between them ; cilia 

 whitish Avith a slio-htlv waved brown line throuo-h them. Hind 

 wnig ochreuus white, the veins and terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; cilia white with an inteiTupted brown line through them ; 

 the undei'side ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal striga and faint diffused postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. 



Hah. CoxGO (Ci/rro)-), 1 $ type indiccitor; Masiio^'alaxd, 

 Salisbury {MarsiuiJl), 1 $ ; Eiiodesia, Eulawayo (MarsJtcdl), 

 S d,l 2; Tbaxstaal, Pretoria (Janse), 1 $; Natal, Estcourt 

 { Hutchinson), 2 d; MArfiiTius, Curepipe {Tulloch), 1 d" , 1 $ , 

 EiuNiox. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



8305. Phytoinetra obtusisigiia. 



Fliisia ohttimigna, Wlk. xii. 030 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 71, 

 pi. Ib'l. ff. 1, la ; Ifiiipsn, Moths Ind. ii. p. 57U. 



Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown, the patagia with 

 oblique wliite line across them ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white tinged with red-brown, the lateral tufts of male 

 ochreous. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown ; double 

 subbasal red-brown striae filled in with white from costa and a 

 sinuous black streak below the cell ; antemedial Hne white defined 

 on each side by red-brown, slightly excurved below costa and 

 incurved in cell, then excurved ; orbicular defined by white, naiTow, 

 oblique ; an oblique white Y-shaped stigma below the cell ; reniform 

 with incomplete white outline and its centre defined by dark 

 brown, constricted at middle where there is a small dark spot 

 beyond it ; a cupreous red-brown patch below end of cell beyond 

 the stigma ; postmedial line indistinctly double, red-brown filled 

 in with whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, then slightly 

 sinuous, incurved at discal fold, oblic[ue below vein 3 and excurved 

 below submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on inner side by cupreous red-brown, 

 excurved below vein 7, angled outwards below vein 4, then sinuous ; 

 a fine white line just before termen with a series of minute black 

 sti-eaks beyond it and two more distinct spots towards apex ; cilia 

 white and red-brown Avith a fine waved Avhite line through them. 

 Hind wing white sufl'used with cupreous broAvn especially on 

 terminal area ; cilia white with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside Avhite irrorated with red-brown, indistinct diffused 

 brown postmedial and suliterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with U-shaped stigma with spot beyond its 

 lower extremity. 



Hah. Natal, Stanger (Delvin), 1 J ; Bombay, Poona ; 



