544. NOCTUTD,*;. 



837G. Phytometra dudgeoni, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 29.) 



J . Head and thorax rufous mixed with ochreous whitish, the 

 tegulae and patagia grey at tips ; abdomen ochreous tinged with 

 mfous, the crests chocolate-brown at tips. Fore wing bright 

 rufous suffused with metallic gold except a patch on medial area 

 below the cell and the terminal area except towards tornus ; sub- 

 basal line represented bv an obliquely curved inifous striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double, rufous, excurved below 

 costa and cell and somewhat oblique ; orbicular with very slight 

 greyish outline, oblique and somewhat quadrate ; a small oblique 

 brilliant silver Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail very short; 

 reniform Avith hardly traceable pale outline, very small and strongly 

 constricted at middle; postmedial hue indistinct, double, rufous, 

 incurved below vein 4 to below end of cell, then obUque ; subter- 

 minal line hardly traceable, nifous, excurved below vein 7 and 

 slightly below veins 4 and 3. Hind wing ochreous tinged with 

 cupreous red-brown ; a faint oblique postmedial line and subter- 

 minal shade ; the underside .slightly irrorated with red-brown and 

 Avith slight discoidal spot. 



Hah. Bhutan {Dudgeon), 1 6 type. Exp. 44 millim. 



* 8377. Phytometra limata. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 30.) 

 riusia limata, Sebaus, A. M. N. H. (8; vii. p. 50 (1911). 



S. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey -brown, the tegula; 



slightly tinged with rufous and tipped yn\\\ grey. Fore wing 



purplish grey irrorated with brown, the inner half of medial area 



brown Avith \i cupreous gloss ; a diffused oblique cupreous brown 



subterminal shade ; subbasal line brown defined on outer side by 



whitish, oblique, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 



l)rown defined on outer side by Avhitish, oblique, slightly curved 



inwards to inner margin ; orbicidar and reniform with whitish 



annuli defined by brown, the former elliptical, the latter open above 



and below, its 'outer edge indented ; the stigma below the cell 



silvery-white, Y -shaped filled in with grey, small and \dih its tail 



slightly lobed ; postmedial line brown defined on inner side by 



white, oblique, excurved to vein 4, then incmwed ; subterminal line 



grey defined on inner side by brown, excvirved beloAV vein 7, then 



oblique ; a brown line slightly defined on outer side by white before 



termen from costa to below vein 4; a fine black terminal line. 



Hind wing grev sufl'used with brown ; cilia whitish ; the underside 



white tinged and irrorated with brown, a diffused curved brown 



postmedial line and faint subterminal shade. 



Hah. Costa Kica, Juan Viiias {Schaiis), type f d in U.S. Nat, 

 Mus. E.rp. 44 millim. 



