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grey suffused with brown, the terminal area darker ; cilia brownish 

 grey ; the underside greyish brown with traces o£ a diffused post- 

 medial shade. 



5 . Fore wing with small V-shaped silvery mark below the cell 

 with elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity. 



Hah. Jamaica {Kaije), 1 $ ; Haiti {Tweedie), 1 6 type 

 Exj). 34-88 millim. 



8318. Phytometra signata. (Plate CCXXXYII. fig. 24.) 



Noctua sifpuila, Fabr. Eiit. Syst. iii. 2, p. 81 (1792) ; Moore, Lep. Cej'l. iii, 



p. 71, pi. 151. f. 4 ; Huipsii. Moths Ind. ii. p. 568. 

 . Plusia dimiimia, Wlk. xxxiii. 837 (1865). 



Head and thorax pale red-brown ; basal joint of antennae with a 

 white ling ; teguhe at tips and an oblique line across patagia 

 whitish ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 rufous, the crests red-brown. Fore wing red-brown with a greyish 

 tinge and glossed with golden cupreous ; subbasal line silvery- 

 whiti-sh defined on inner side by brown, ending at submedian fold; 

 a black striga before it below the cell and two black points with a 

 minute silvery streak between them on outer side ; antemedial hne 

 silvery, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique 

 and sinuous; an oblique silvery U-shaped stigma below the cell 

 with a round spot beyond its lower extremity ; reniform indistinctly 

 defined by silver at sides, strongly constricted at middle and with 

 four blackish points in its extremities ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with silvery-whitish, excurved to vein 5, then in- 

 curved and again excurved below submedian fold, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, brown, 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold; some 

 whitish on termen from apex to vein 2 and a fine white line at base 

 of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous brown ; cilia 

 white with a brown line through them ; the underside white 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal striga with 

 bar above it from costa, diffused brown postmedial and subterminal 

 lines Avith brown suffusion between them. 



Hab. SiERiLV Leone {Foxcroft), 1 $ type diminuta ; Natal, 

 Durban {Lei(/h), 1 6 ; MArsiTius (Maiiders), 1 5 ; Cextb. 

 Chixa, Ichang (Ilohson), 1 $ ; Madras, Gooty {CamphcU), 1 $ , 

 Calicut {Cardew), 1 $; Ceylox, 2 6; Burma, Mandalay {Binr/- 

 Jiam), 1 S ; Java {Horsjield), 4 6,2 ? ; Fiji (MatJiew), 1 $ . 

 Exp. 30-34 millim. 



8319. Phytometra rubida. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 25.) 



Autograplia ruhidiis, Ot-tolengui, J. N. Y. Eiit. Soc. x. p. 67, pi. vi. f. 4 

 (1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 200. 



2 . Head and thorax bright nifous mixed with whitish, the tips 

 of tegula? and ])atagia and an oblicjue line across the latter whitish ; 

 abdomen reddii-h brown mixed with grey, the crests rufous and 



