PHYTOMETEA. 487 



with rufous, a small brown discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, 

 and diffused subterminal line. 



llab. U.S.A. {Carter), 1 $ type. New York, New Jersey, 

 Virginia, 1 S; Me.yico, Mexico City {Hoeje), 1 $, Grodman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exj). 34-38 millim. 



8312. Phytometra impiilsa. 



VIuMa impuha, Wlk. xxsiii. 838 (1865) ; Hiiipsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 100, 

 1)1. 162. f. 11 ; id. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 573. 



Head and thorax jjurplish red mixed with fiery red ; tegulse with 

 whitish tips ; patagia with oblique whitish line at middle and 

 Avhitish tips ; metathoracic crest Avhitish at tips ; fore and mid 

 tibi;e brownish grey, the hind tibiae and the tarsi brownish white ; 

 abdomen white, the dorsal crests rufous, the latei'al tufts of male 

 yellowish. Fore wing purple-grey suffused and irrorated with 

 purple-brown, the end of cell, medial area below the cell, and the 

 apex gold suffused with fiery red ; antemedial line double, brown 

 filled in with silvery- white, angled outwai'ds below costa, then 

 oblique ; orbicular defined by whitish and its lower part by silver, 

 narrow, oblique ; a narrow oblique silver U-shaped stigma below 

 the cell with a spot beyond its lower extremity ; reniform with 

 slight silvery outline and some fiery red and gold in centre, its 

 inner edge oblique, its outer strongly constricted at middle where 

 there is some red and gold beyond it ; postmedial line double, 

 brown, the outer line darker, obliquely and almost evenly curved ; 

 subterminal line brown slightly defined on outer side by whitish, 

 excurved below vein 7 and slightly at middle ; a narrow pinkish 

 white band just before termen defined on each side by dark brown 

 lines. Hind wine: white, the veins and terminal half suffused with 

 red-brown ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule, curved post- 

 medial line, and subterminal shade. 



Hah. Thataxcore, Trivandrum {Ferr/usson), 1 $; Ceylon, 

 Pundaloya {Green), 2 J , 1 $ . Exj). 24-32 millim. 



8313 . Phytometra meretricia. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 20.) 



Pliisia meretricia, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 51 (1911). 



c? . Head and thorax pale red-broAvn, the tegulae, an oblique line 

 across patagia, and the tips of scales of metathoracic crest grey ; 

 legs grey-brown, the tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen grey, 

 brown, the crests dark brown, the lateral tufts of hair at extremity 

 iiifous. Fore wing purple-grey, the medial area below the cell and 

 the area before and beyond the subterminal line suffused with 

 cupreous brown ; a slight sinuous brown subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold, placed on some brown suffusion and with two 

 small black spots beyond its lower extremity ; antemedial line 

 cuj)reous brown slightly defined on outer side by white, somewhat 



