PHYTOMETEA. 549 



shade near tips, the metathoracic crest chocolate-brown at tips ; 

 abdomen grey-white mixed with red-brown, the basal crest choco- 

 late-! n-own ti])ped with white. Fore wing violaceous white irroratt-d 

 with reddish brown, the medial area below the cell suffused witli 

 olive-brown and the 2X)stniedial area below vein 4 tinged with olive ; 

 an obli(|uely curved subbasal red-brown striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line ehocolate-brown defined on inner side by white, angled 

 outwards below costa, interrupted in cell and oblique below the cell ; 

 an oblique red-bi"own shade across end of cell and a small wedge- 

 sha2)ed chocolate-brown s[,ot above lower angle ; the stigma below 

 the cell composed of two obliquely placed silvery spots deHned by 

 chocolate-brown, the basal spot naiTow, the other elli])tical ; post- 

 medial line chocolate-brown defined on outer side b}' white, strongly 

 bent outward and almost obsolete below costa, then oblique and 

 very slightly incurved beloAv vein 4, a faint reddish tinge before it 

 below vein 2 ; subteiininal line white defined on inner side by 

 brown, ansing at vein 7, obliquely curved to vein 5, then straight, 

 an olive shade be^'ond it between veins 7 and 3 ; a whitish line 

 defined on inner side by chocolate-brown before tennen from apex 

 to vein 2 ; a fine chocolate-brown terminal line ; cilia chocolate- 

 bro\TO at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the 

 tenuinal area red-brown, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line; 

 cilia wliite with a brown line through them ; the underside white 

 iirorated with red-brown, a brown discoidal striga, distinct post- 

 medial line and subtenuinal shade. 



Hab. Japax, Tokio {Maries), 1 5 , Yokohama {Jonas, Prijer), 

 3 S t^']^e•, Corea, Gensan {Letch), 1 § ; C. China, Ship-y-Shan, 

 1 S ; W. CiiiXA, Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 S , Omei-shfin, 1 § , 

 Kwei-chou, 1 d" , Ta-cbien-lu (Pratt), 1 5 , Huang-ma-chang 

 {Pratt), 1 d", Moupin {KricliehJorf), 1 d- J£xj). 30-36 millnn. 



8385. Phytometra tetragona. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 2.) 



riifsia fefrrif/oiia. \\'lk. xii. 1)32 (18.j7); Ilnipsn llutlis liul. ii. [>. iui; 

 Swiiib. Cat. Het. Miis. Oxoii. ii. p. 182. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with red-brown. Fore 

 wing white slightly iiTorated with red-brown, the medial area below 

 the cell chocolate-brown ; antemedial line chocolate-brown defined 

 on inner side bv white, faint and angled outwards below co.sta, 

 obsolete in cell, then oblique and curved inwards to inner margin ; 

 an obli(jue red-brown shade from costa aei'oss end of cell ; a very 

 oblicpie silvery- white stigma below the cell, its upper edge indented 

 at middle ; postmedial line chocolate-brown defined on outer side 

 by white, arising below costa, ol)lique, very slightlj'^ incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by brown, 

 arising at vein 7, obliquely curved to vein 5, then almost straight ; 

 a white line defined on inner side by brown suifusion before ternien 

 from apex to vein 2 ; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with red-lirown, the terminal area red-brown ; an indistinct 

 postmedial line ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ; the 



