PHTTOMETRA. 519 



meliiil line slight, silvery, oblique to just above median nervure and 

 slightly excurved below costa, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous 

 below the cell ; a brilliant silver stigma below the cell consisting of 

 a U-shaped spot with silvery point above its outer arm in the cell 

 and a i-ound spot beyond its lower extremity ; reniform oblong, 

 faintly defined by grey, with black points in its four angles and a 

 silver point at its lower inner extremity ; postniedial line double, 

 brown tilled in with greyish, sti'ongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then waved, incurved at submedian fold, some Avhite points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, dark, slightly angled out- 

 Avards at vein 7, then oblique to tornus ; the termen with series of 

 small black spots defined on inner side by silvery-white from apex 

 to above vein 2, two of them conjoined to form a lunule between 

 veins 5 and 3. Hind wing cupreous brown witli some whitish at 

 base ; cilia whitish, chequered with brown to vein 2, then with 

 brown line through them ; the underside with the basal half white 

 irrorated with red-brown, the terminal half suffused witli cupreous 

 brown, a brown discoidal striga and diffvised curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Sikhtm; Ceylon {Templeton, Green), Id, 3 $ type. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Larva. Olive-green, darker below, the somites spotted with 

 black ; a few fine dorsal hairs. Food-plant, Acah/pha. 



Pupa green with dorsal segmental l)njwn streaks. 



8317. Phytometra pannosa. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 11.) 



Plusia pannosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 149 (1882) ; Hnipsn. Moth:! Ind. ii. 

 p. 573. 



r? . Head and thorax red- brown mixed with greyish ; tegulsp 

 white at tips ; patagia with oblique white line near base and white 

 tips ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen Avhitish suffused with 

 red-brown. Fore wing flesh colour, the basal half of costal area, 

 the inner half of medial area and the terminal area red-brown with 

 a cupreous gloss ; subbasal line whitish, excurved below costa and 

 ending at su1)median fold ; antemedial line white, angled outwards 

 below costa, angled inwards and obsolescent in cell, then obliquely 

 incurved ; orbicular a minute black-brown spot with white annulus ; 

 an ol)lique silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail 

 formed by an elliptical spot ; small black-brown spots at angles of 

 cell, the lower with white annulus ; postmedial line red-brown, 

 defined on outer side by wliite below vein 2, slightly excurved below 

 costa, then oblique and almost straight, some whitish points beyond 

 it on costa, and a slight subterminal striga from costa ; a pinkish 

 white terminal line from just below apex to vein 2, where it is angled 

 inwards, and forming a triangular mark at tornus ; cilia pinkish 

 with a line brown line at base. Hind wing wliitish suffused with 

 red-brown, the terminal area red-brown, a sliglit postmedial line ; 

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



