524 



KOCTUID.T,. 



brown and slightly striated with dark brown, the medial area deep 

 red-brown bolow the cell with some fulvous yellow in submedian 

 interspace before the postniedial line ; subbasal line silvery-whitish 

 delint'd on each side by red-brown, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line silvery-whitish defined on each side by red-brown, 

 indistinct to median nervure. angled outwards behjw costa, strongly 

 bent inwards in cell, oblique and sinuous below the cell ; orbicular 

 with pale annulus, obliqvie elliptical ; an oblique silvery-white 

 Y-sh:iped stigma below the cell, its tail curved and rather slender; 

 renit'orm with slight silvery annulus, slightly angled inwards at 

 median nervure and its outer edge excised at middle, slight black 

 marks in its extremities and beyond it at middle ; a slight brown 

 medial shade oblique to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with ochreous and with 

 silvery-whitish below vein 2, obsolescent and bent outwards below 

 costa, then obliquely curved to below vein 3, then slightly sinuous ; 

 subterminal line dark brown defined on inner side by red-brown 

 suflhasion, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins -1 

 and 3 ; a fine dark brown terminal line defined on inner side by a 

 greyish line ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with rufous, the terminal area rather darker ; cilia whitish 

 "with a red-brown line through them ; the underside ochi'eous 

 irrorated with rufous and Avith faint diffused postmedial and 

 subterminal lines. 



Hab. Kasumie, Deosal Plains {Leech), 1 S type. Exj). 

 42 millim. 



8354. Phytometra precatiouis. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Fiusia precatiouis, Guen. IVoct. ii. p. 344(1852); OUolengui, J. 2s .Y 

 Enl. !Soc. X. pi. ix. f. 6 ; iSinilh, Cat. Noct. JS. Am. p. 251. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with red-brown and grey, the 

 tegulae and patagia tipped with grey and the latter with an oblique 

 grey line across them ; antennae ringed black and white towards 

 base; the spurs and tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen pale 

 rufous, the crests deep rufous at tips. Fore wing deep rufous 

 mixed with i^revish ancl sliii-htlv irrorated with black, the inner half 

 of medial area and the terminal area with a golden cupreous gloss ; 

 subbasal line silvery defined on inner side by deep rufous, sinuous, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line silvery defined on each side 

 by dee]> rufous, angled outwards below costa, sti'ongly incurved in 

 cell, then oblique and sinuous ; orbicidar re])resented by a slight 

 silver lunule above median nervm*e ; an oblique V-shajJed silver 

 stigma below the cell with elliptical sj)ot beyt)nd its lower extremity ; 

 renitorm rufous with taint silvery outline, strongly constricted at 

 jniddle ; a faint oblique brown medial shade from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; postmetlial line double, rufous filled in with greyish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, angled 

 iuwards at vein 2, then filled in with silver; subterminal line 



