496 NoCTriD.^:. 



8325. Phytometra albostriata. (Plate CCXXXYII. fig. 29.) 



Plusia alhostriata, Breiii. & Grey, Eeitr. Schmett. N. Cliiii. p. 18 (1853); 



Men. En. Anini. Mus. Petr. pi. 1(). f. 10. 

 Ahroftola transji.va. Wlk. xv. 1783 (18,58), nee xii. p. 884. 

 I'lusia o.vi/gramma, Hnipsii. Mollis Ind. ii. p. 575; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 239 (nee Gcyer). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the patagia greyer, 

 the tegulae with black medial line, the patagia with curved black 

 line near base ; frontal tuft edged with black ; the spurs and tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown, the 

 crests red-brown and grey. Fore wing grey suffused and striated 

 with red-brown and irrorated with some black ; su1:)basal line slight, 

 brown, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, brown, waved ; orbicular with Avhitish outline, very narivnv 

 and oblique ; a very narrow and oblique wedge-shaped yellowish 

 Avhite stigma below the cell, its middle defined by faint rufous lines, 

 extending to just beyond the postmedial line and emitting a streak 

 on median nervure to before the antemedial line ; reniform defined 

 by black, narroAV ; postmedial line double, brown, the outer line 

 black towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and minutely waved to submedian fold where it is angled 

 inwards, then excurved, some grey points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line fine, black, dentate, with slight black streaks before it 

 below veins 6 and 5 a*id angled inw^ards at vein 2 and submedian 

 fold ; a slight waved brown shade before termen with some whitish 

 points on its outer edge and a fine waved dark terminal line. Hind 

 wing brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces of basal half 

 whitish ; cilia whitish with a brown line near base ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule and diffused 

 brown 2)ostmedial and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma not quite reaching the post- 

 medial line. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the stigma pointed at both ends and not 

 reaching either the median nervure or postmedial line. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate, 1 5 » Yokohama 

 {Jonas, Fryer), 2 J , 2 $> ; Cokea, Gensan (Zppc//), 1 6 ; Centk. 

 CniXA, Shanghai (Fri/er), 1 $ , Foo-chou ('SV/y), 1 c5' ; W. Cni>A, 

 Chang- yang (Pr^i"^), 1 <S ; Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur (G. Yoitnff), 

 1 6 , Dharms.'ila (Ilock/tir/), 3 $ ; Assam, Shillong (Pr^;v\s7/), 1 iS , 

 1 $ ; Madras, Bangalore {Watson), 2 $ , Nilgiris {Ilanipson), 

 1 J, 1 2 ; Ceylon {Tenqjleion), 1 S ; Java {Jlors/ichl},! $ ; 

 Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 c?,Moreton Bay {U/(/(/Ies), 

 1 d , 1 ? ; Fiji {JIafhew), 1 d , 1 $ . F:sj). 32-lO'milliin'. 



832G. Phytometra subchalybsea. (Plate CCXXXYII. fig. 30.) 



Abrosiold subchah/haa, Wlk. wxiii. 833 (1865); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 575. 

 Ahrosto/a nnhila, Moore, Lep. Ccyl. iii. p. 540 pi. 1114. f. b (18S7). 



Head and lliorax dai-k i-cd-bi'own mixed with ])urplisli grey ; 

 teguhe with lilack line at middle : lai'si hlackish ringed willt white; 



