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slightly waved to torniis ; the apex witli some cliocolato-brown 

 sutt'usion and t\v(j minute black spots defined on inner side by 

 silvery-white on ternien ; cilia with a series of blat-k }K)ints at base 

 and chequered with black-brown at veins 4:, 8,2 and tornus. Hind 

 "wing dark cupreous brown Avith some whitish on basal half; cilia 

 whitish with a brown line near l)ase and ehetpiered with brown at 

 ajwx and middle ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown, a brown dlscoidal strii^a and 

 diftused postmedial and subtermlnal lines. 



ll(tb. GrAiJOOX, Ogove U., type f maponc/Ka in Coll. Holland ; 

 Br. E. Afiuca, Mombasa {de la Garde), 1 $ ; Uganda, 

 Ruwenzori {Wollastoii), 1 $ ; Natat., Karkloof {Marshall), 

 1 $ ; Cape Coloxv, Kokstad {Mrs. Pri)i(ilr), 1 5 , Knvsna, type 

 t $ in Coll. Eothschild. Hxj). 80-32 millim. 



8356. Phytometra diveL 



Phisia du'cx, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1844. iii. p. .596 & 18.37, i. p. 12.5 ; Herr.- 

 Schtlir. Eur. Scbiiiett., Nocf. f. 511 ; Stand. C it. Lep. pal. p. 237. 



Head and thorax bright rufous mlxel with some s^revish ; tey'ulae 

 ■with a grey line at middle and grey tips ; patagia with an oblique 

 grey line at middle ; pectus and legs brownish white, the tibi;e and 

 tarsi tinged with riifous ; abdomen dorsally pale rufous with some 

 yellow at base, the crests deep rufous, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing pink almost entirely suftused with rufous except on 

 costal and terminal areas ; a curved dark subbasal striga from costa 

 (leiined on outer side by silvery-gold, and an oblique striga from 

 median nervure defined on inner side by silvery-gold ; antemedial 

 line double, dark, angled outwards and tilled in with silvery-gold 

 below costa, angled inwards on median nervure, then oblique 

 sinuous and filled in with silvery-gold and jwoduced to a dentate 

 mai-k above vein 1 ; orbicular a small round silvery-g(ild spot in 

 lower part of cell, conjoined to a V-J'ii'iped stigma below the cell 

 tilled in with silvery-gold and with a round silveiT-gold sj^ot well 

 beyond its lower extremity ; reniform with its lower part defined by 

 an oblique silvery-gold striga on inner side and a >-sliaped mark 

 on outer, otherwise undefined ; an oblique brown striga from middle 

 of costa and slight oblique line fi'om vein •!< well beyond the cell to 

 inner margin ; ])ostmedial line brown, double towartk costa and 

 below vein 4 and filled in with silvery-gold towards inner margin, 

 bent outwards In-low costa, obli(jue to vein 7. slightly incurved at 

 discal fold and ol)li(iue l)elow veiu-1; subterminal line represented 

 by wedge-shaped black marks between veins 8 and 5 and an obliipie 

 line from vein i to innei* margin, some rufous beyond it towards 

 i\\)ex and at middk; ; a black-brown terminal line ; cilia pink at 

 base, with })ale line at middle and rufous tips. Hind wing orange- 

 vellow, some brown at base ; a l)lack-brown terminal band, its 

 inner edge indented at submedian fold ; cilia orange-yellow with a 

 red-brown line at base. Underside of fore wing orange-yellow 

 suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown exce2)t on costal and 



