piirroMETiiA. 



499 



*S329. Phytoinetra cebeana. 



Pol//ckHsia /cebeanayBeth.-Tjdker, Nov. Zaol. xiii. p. 271 (lOOR). 



c? . Head and thoi'ax grey-brown mixed with reddish brown ; 

 abdomen grey-brown with the lateral fringes o£ hair rufous. Foro 

 wing brownisli grey with slight dark irroration, the medial area 

 suffused with golden bronze except towai'ds costa, the postmedial 

 area except towards costa and the terminal area except at tornus 

 with golden and bronze suffusion ; subbasal line represented by 

 slight double oblitjue rufous strise from costa and cell ; a slight 

 double antemedial line angled outwards below costa, interrupted in 

 cell, then obli(|ue ; orbicular with slight whitish annulus, narrow. 



Fig. \2i.—Phi/tometra ceheana, J. |. 



oblique elliptical ; reniform very indistinctly defined, constricted at 

 middle ; the stigma below the cell consisting of a U-shaped silvery 

 spot filled in with silver and round S2:)ot beyond its lower extremity, 

 both slighth^ defined by dark brown ; postmedial line double, 

 obsolescent towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then incurved, 

 excurved between veins 4, 3, then again incurved ; subterminal line 

 defined by golden bronze on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle , a narrow whitish terminal band and fine waved brown 

 terminal line ; cilia pale. Hind wing silky grey tinged with rufous 

 except on terminal area ; the underside suffused and irrorated witb 

 rufous except on terminal area and with indistinct diffused dark 

 postmedial and subterminal bands. 



Hah. Bk. K Guinea, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), ij^Q f <S in Coll. 

 Bethune-Baker. Exp. 4(J millim. 



D. Abrlomen of male witli expansile medial lateral tufts of long hair con- 

 tained iu a told, the anal tuft small. 



8330. Phytometra acuta. 



Plusia acuta, Wlk. xii. 922 (18J7). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish, the tegulse with 

 blackish medial line, the tegulte and patagia with whitish tips and 

 the latter witli oblique whitish line across them ; ^^ectus and hind 

 legs brownish wliitc ; abdomen grev-brown with a reddish tinge, 



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