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the ventral sui-faee whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale 

 purplish tinged with red-hrown and slightly irrorated with dark 

 brown, a patch below end of cell and the temiinal area except 

 towards apex and tornus golden cupreous ; antemedial line diffused, 

 red-brown, curved ; tAvo small elongate obliquely placed silver spots 

 below the cell, the upper with some rufous in centre ; a diffused 

 red-brown discoidal patch ; an indistinct diffused oblique brown 

 line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 brown, bent outwards and obsolescent below costa, then oblique, 

 sli^htlv incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 3 and excurved 

 below submedian fold, some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subteniiinal line indistinct, broAvn, slightly excurved at vein 7 and 

 oblique towards inner margin ; a silvery-white line l)efore termen 

 from below apex to submedian fold. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with red-brown, the tenninal area suffused with dark brown from 

 below apex to near tornus ; the underside white tinged Avith rufous 

 and sliglitly irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule 

 and diffused postmedial and subterniinal lines with a dark shade 

 between them except towards costa. 



Ilab. Traxsvaal, Johannesburg (Boss), 1 $ t\-p:)e. JiJj'jj. 

 32 millim. 



8308. Phjrtometra brachychalcea, n. sp. 

 (Plate CCXXXVII. % IS.) 



Head and tegulae fierv red and vellow, the latter with lirown and 

 white lines near base, at middle, and at tips ; thorax red-brown, the 

 dorsal crest with fiery red and yellow above, the patagia wdth 

 oblique browai and white line at middle and brown and white tips ; 

 pectus yellow and fiery red in front ; abdomen yellow tinged with 

 i-ufous, the crests dark brown and w'hite at tips. Fore Aving 

 chestnut-red striated with brown and iiTorated with silvery- white, 

 the postmedial and terminal areas except towards costa and inner 

 margin brilliant metallic gold, emitting an oblique spur above and 

 below vein 2 to the median nervure Avhere it ends bluntly below 

 the orbicular ; subbasal line slight, silvery, oblique, sinuous, fi-om 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line slight, silvery, waved, strongly' 

 incurved in the cell ; orbicular and reniform with slight silvery 

 outlines, the former naiTow, oblique, the latter with its outer edge 

 strongly constricted at middle ; ]jostmedial line double, red-brown 

 filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very 

 slightly angled outwards at discal fold and vein 3 and bent 

 outwards below submedian fold, hardly traceable on the gold area; 

 some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line red-lirown, 

 indistinct on the gold area, angled outwards at veins 7, 0, below 

 veins 4 and 3, and at vein 1 ; the termen red-brown ; a waved 

 brown line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish wliite, the veins 

 and tenninal half suffused with red-brown ; cilia whitish tinged 

 with red-brown and with a red-brown line near base ; tlie underside 



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