480 NOCTUID.E. 



Madras, Belgavim (Wafson), 1 S , Nili^iris (Hampson), 1 c? , 1 2 ; 

 Cevlon {Templeton), 1 d , 3 $ type, Badulla (Yerhtiry),! $; 

 BuBMA, Kangoon (Scoff), 1 c? • Exp. 24-36 millira. 



Larva. Green with white dorsal lines, subdorsal streaks, and 

 lateral dots ; black dots on 4th to anal somites ; medial prolegs 

 pale red. 



8306. Phytometra lectula. 



Prodenia lectula, Wlk. xv. 1679 (1858); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iit. p. 73, 



pi. 140. f. 2 ; Hnipsn. Mofbs Ind. ii. p. .".70. 

 Vlusia Jc'ilifum, Fehl. Hois. Nov. pi. 110. f. 24 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous ; abdomen 

 ochreoiis tinged with rufous, the crests and ventral surface browner. 

 Fore wing silverv-grey suffused with red-brown and irrorated with 

 dark brown ; subbasal line silvery defined on each side by red- 

 l)rown towards costa below Avhich it is excvirved, below the cell 

 defined on inner side by black, ending at vein 1 where it is met by 

 an oblique silvery line from median ncrvure defined on outer side 

 by black ; antemedial line silvery-white, angled outwards below 

 costa and excurved above vein 1 ; orbicular represented by an 

 oblique silvery- white streak on its upper edge ; a very elongate 

 and oblique silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell extending 

 to the postmedial line, filled in ■with yello^^^sh and with a black 

 point on the outer arm at median nervure ; reniform A-ery faintly 

 defined by red-brown, constricted at middle and with a minute 

 silvery striga on its inner edge and spot on outer ; postmedial line 

 double, red-brown, filled in with silveiy-white between vein 4 and 

 submedian fold and defined on outer side by a greyish shade, bent 

 outwards below costa, then slightly waved, excurved at vein 5, 

 then oblique, some minute whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinctly double, red-brown filled in with 

 grej'ish, minutely waved, with slight black streaks before it below 

 veins 7 and 6 and with an oblique white mark on it at discal fold ; 

 a narrow whitish terminal band wHth a rufous shade before it with 

 slight blackish marks on it and fine red-brown lines just before 

 and on termen ; cilia ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white tinged 

 with rufous, the terminal area suffused with ochreous brown ; cilia 

 ochreous white ; the underside ochreous white, the costal area 

 iiTorated with red-brown and the terminal area suffused with 

 red-brown, a slight discoidal bar and diffused postmedial and 

 sul .terminal lines, 



Ilab. Bex(4al (liussell), 2 c? ; Bomrat, Kanara (Ward), 

 1 c?, 1 $ type; Ceilon, Kegalle {Alston), 1 $. Exp. 28-36 

 inillnn. 



8307. Phytometra distalagma, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 17.) 



$ . Head and tliorax l.riglit red-brown mixed with some grey- 

 white, the back of liead and teguhe tinged with tiery red ; pectus 

 and legs whitish mixed with rufous; abdomen bright red-brown. 



