530 KOCTUIDiE. 



83GI. Phytometra lal3rosa. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 20.) 



F/iisia lahrosa, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 207 ; Ottolengui, 

 J. N.Y. Enl. Soc. X. pi. vii. f. 14; Smith, Cat. jS'oct. N, Am. p. 251. 



$ . Head and thorax bright red-brown, the tegula? and thoracic 

 crest tipped with grey ; antennis whitish ringed with brown ; pectus 

 and legs pale red-brown, the tibiae at extremities and tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish snffvised with red-brown, the crests 

 red-brown tipped with grey. Fore wing pui-ple-grey tinged with 

 red-brown, the medial area below the cell deep red-brown ; subbasal 

 line silvery-white defined on each side by red-brown, sinuous, 

 from costa to submedian fold, a red-brown shade beyond it ; ante- 

 medial line silvery- white defined on each side by red-brown, angled 

 outwards below costa, bent inwards in cell, then oblique and ex- 

 curved above vein 1 ; orbicular a small red-brown spot; an oblique 

 silvery Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail bent outwards and 

 dilated at extremity ; renifonn with slight silvery- white annulus, 

 constricted at middle where there is a brown spot beyond it, its 

 lower part filled in \\-ith brov^-n ; postmedial line silveiy-white 

 defined by red-brown, bent out^vards below costa, then oblique and 

 waved, obsolescent beyond the cell, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; siibterminal line silvery-white defined on inner side by deep 

 red-brown suffusion, angled outwards at vein 7 and below veins 4 

 and 3 and inwards at discal fold and vein 2, a red-brown shade 

 beyond it at apex and a trifid shade at iiriddle ; cilia chequered 

 purple-grey and brown with a fine white fine at base. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with red-brown, the tenninal area red-brown ; 

 cilia chequered white and brown ; the underside ochreous white, 

 the costal and tenninal areas suffused with brown, a slight brown 

 discoidal striga. 



Hah. U.S.A., California, Sanzalito, 1 5 type. Exj). 44 millim. 



8862. Phytometra bimaculata. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 21.) 



rUma himnculota. Steph. 111. Brit. Ent.. Hiuist. iii. p. 102 (1832); 



Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Eut. Soc. x. pi. vii. f. 5; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 249. 

 Piusia it-Jrrevis, Giien. Noct. ii. p. 341 (1862). 



Head nifous mixed with some brown ; tegulaj rufous at base, 

 red-brown at tips ; thoi'ax red-brown with the crest rufous in 

 front ; antennse whitish tinged with rufous and ringed A\-ith black 

 towards base ; paljii with the 3rd joint brown ; pectus and legs 

 red-brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown 

 with a reddish tinge, the crests red-brown mixed with blackish, the 

 ventral surface rufous. Fore wing pale greyish rufous slightly 

 irroi-ated and striated with black, the medial area Avith a patch of 

 deep i-ufous ludow the cell, the medial part of subterminal area 

 with a golden gloss ; a golden subbasal striga from costa defined 

 on each side by brown and a minute black spot below the cell ; 

 antemedial line golden defined on each side ]\v black-brown, angled 



