482 XOCTUID.F,. 



yellowish wliite, the costal and teniiinal areas iiTovated with red- 

 brown, a brown discoidal striga and diffused postmedial and 

 subterminal lines. 



Hab. Japan, Tokio (Mcir/rs), 1 J , 1 $•, Yokohama {Jonas), 

 2 5, Satsunia {Leech), 1 $, Tsuruga {Leech), 1 $; Loociioo Is. 

 {Pryer), 1 6; Formosa {JIoOsoh), 1 $; W. China, Cliang-yang 

 {Pratt), 1 5, Psu-tsu-fang, 1 Si Omei-shan, 1 J, KAvei-chow, 



1 6, Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 1 J, Monpin {Kricheldorf), 2 d; 

 Assam {Badglcy), 1 $, Shillong {Parish), 2 $; Madras, Nil- 

 giris {Hanq)son), 2 d" , 3 $ type; Ceylon {Templeton, Leicis), 



2 J . Ex}^. 40-40 millini. 



*8309. Phytometra bipartita. 



Plusia hipartifa, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 71, pi. 0. f. 2 (1880). 

 Plusia ekeifcei, Beth. -Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906). 



cJ . Head and thorax fiery orange-red, the tegula? with rufous 

 lines at middle and tips and tipjsed with white, the patagia rufous 

 mixed with white, the meso- and meta thoracic crests tipped with 

 rufous and white ; pectus and legs yellowish tinged with rufous ; 

 abdomen yellow tinged with iiifous, the basal crests rufous. Fore 

 wing grey-white suffused and striated with rufous to the post- 

 medial line, then brilliant metallic gold striated with rufous, the 

 gold extending to cell above and below base of vein 2 ; subbasal 

 line represented by slight double inwardly oblicjue white stri:e 

 from costa ; antemedial line slight, double filled in with whitish, 

 excurved to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and sinuous ; 

 orbicular and reniform slightly defined by white, the former 

 oblique V-shaped, somewhat constricted at middle, the latter 

 strongly constricted at middle ; postmedial line rufous, very 

 oblique from costa to middle of submedian fold, then excurved 

 and indistinctly double ; subterminal line rufous, slightly angled 

 at vein 7, then oblique and slightly excurved below submedian 

 fold ; a fine iiifoiis terminal line ; cilia Avhite mixed with rufous 

 and with waved rufous line through them. Hind wing vellowish 

 white, the terminal half suffused with red-brown ; cilia white with 

 a red-brown line through them ; the imderside yellowish white 

 with faint diffused red-brown postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 

 Hah. Celebes ; Br. N. Guinea, Ekeikei {Pratt), type f <S 

 eJceiJcei in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exp. 38 millim. 



b. Hind tarsi of male without comb of long spines on 

 Ist joint. 

 C(}. Fore wing witli (ho stigma below the cell 

 U-shaped with a spot beyond its lower extremity 

 or conjoined to it. 

 a-. Fore wing with the medial area below the cell 

 siifTused with golden cupreous. 

 «3, Fore wing with tiic stigma below tlie cell 

 large, the U-mark broad, the jiost medial 

 line angled inwards at submedian fold c/iatct/tes. 



