PUYTOMETEA, 051 



a similar large elliptical spot below it ; reniform pale golden yellow 

 with its centre detined by brown, constricted at middle ; postmedial 

 line pale golden yellow, slightly waved, its inner edge dentate 

 towardjs costa and at subniediau fold, oblique, incm-ved at vein 1. 

 Hind wing brownish grey Avith a diffused dark postmedial shade. 



Hub. Madagascak. Exjj. 50 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



S388. Phytometra parahractea, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 3.) 



(3 . Head and thorax j^nrplish red-brown slightly mixed with 

 grey, the palpi, tegulaj, and dorsal crest in front tier}" red, the tegnlai 

 tipped with grey ; pectus, femora, and tibiai below tiery red ; 

 abdomen yellow tinged with red-brown, the crests red-brown. Fuie 

 wing purplish pink suffused with red-brown and striated with dark 

 brown, the medial area below the cell deeper red-brown ; a curved 

 subbasal red-brown striga defined on outer side by whitish from 

 costa ; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by silvery- white, 

 angled outwards below costa, retracted in cell, then oblique ; 

 orbicular oblique elliptical, defined by a curved silvery streak below; 

 a large oblique golden stigma below the cell, rounded at extremity 

 and with its inner edge indented at middle ; some dark suffusion in 

 upper end of cell ; reniform defined by dark brown and with a 

 silveiT striga at lower inner extremity, oblique, its outer edge 

 somewhat indented at middle ; a dark line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin, excurved round the stigma; postmedial line double, 

 red-brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique, bent 

 outwards below vein 2 ; subterminal line red-brown, excurved at 

 vein 7 and slightly angled outwards below veins -i and 3 ; a rather 

 diffused red-brown fine before termen from apex to vein 2 ; a fine 

 brown tenninal line. Hind wing yellowish suffused with red-brown, 

 the veins and terminal area dark red-brown ; a dark postmedial line ; 

 cilia reddish brown. Underside reddish yellow irrorated with 

 br<5wn ; fore wing with the disk suffused with brown ; hoth. wings 

 with dark postmedial line and subterminal shade. 



Ilab. W. China, Wa-shdn {Pratt), 1 d, Pu-tsu-fang, 1 6 

 type. Ex^). 4-1— 18 millim. 



8389. Phytometra bractea. 



Koctua hracfeo, Scliitf. Wien. Yerz. [>. 314 (177G); Fabr. Miiiifc. Ins. ii. 



p. IGl (1787); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 110. f. 1; Hubn. Em-. Sc-hmett., 



Noct. f. 279; Diip. Lep. Fr. vii. 2. p. 2(5, pi. 134. f. 1 ; l^n-. Nemo I'.eiLr. 



pi. 47. f. '6 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Em., llaiist. iii. p. lUG ; JoLii, Kcy. Russ. 



Eut. Tiii. p. 215, if. 1, 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lej). pal. p. 2a7. 

 Koctua sccuris, \i\\. Linn. Eiit. pi. f). f. 10 (1789). 



Head and thorax pur|)lish red-brown, the teguhe tinged with 

 fieiy red and with some givy at tips ; palpi tiery red ; abdomen 

 yellow tinged with fiery I'ed, the crests red-brown. Fore wing 

 purplish red-brown striated with dark In-own, tlie medial area 



