PHTTOMETRA. 557 



S396. Phytometra ochreata. 



Plasia ochreata, Wlk. xxxiii. 839 (180.')) ; Moore, Lep. Cevl. iii, p. 72, 



pi. 151. f. 4; Hmpsn. .\Iotli3 Iiid. ii. p. 573. 

 Plicsia curnucopue, Siiell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 72, pi. 6. f. 3 (1880). 



Head and thorax purpllsli brown mixed with some grey-white, 

 the vertex of head, tasfulse, and thoracic crest in front tinsred with 

 fulvous ; abdomen yellowish tinged with brown, the crests tipped 

 with dark brown and white. Fore wing purplish suffused in parts 

 and irrorated Avith red-brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 golden cupreous except towards tornus ; a subbasal rufous striga 

 defined on outer side by silvery-white from costa ; antemedial line 

 fine, silveiy- white defined on each side by rufous, angled outwards 

 below costa, strongly incmwed in cell, then oblique ; orbicular 

 defined by silvery- white, narrow, oblique elliptical ; a narrow 

 elongate oblique silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell 

 extending to the postmedial line ; reniform with slight white 

 annulus, narrow, somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 postmedial line red-bi'own slightly defined on outer side by white, 

 oblique to discal fold, then inwardly oblique and bent outwards 

 below submedian fold, some white points bej'^ond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line dark red-brown, excurved below vein 7, incurved and 

 somewhat diffused on inner side at discal fold, and sliyhtlv anarled 

 outwards below veins 4 and 3. Hind wing purplish brown, the 

 basal and costal areas yellowish white tinged with brown ; the 

 underside pur])lish grey thickly irrorated with brown, a slight 

 brown postmedial line and diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. Japatv', Yokohama {Prycr), 1 S ; Corea {Leech'), 1 5 ; 

 HoxGKOxa {J. J. Walker), 1 S ; Formosa, Takow (Hobson), 



1 6 ; PuxiAB, Simla, Deyra Dhun, 1 d ; Assam, Kha'sis, 1 c? , 

 Ntigas ; Bexgal, Calcutta, 1 $ ; Madras, Nilgiris {Hampson), 



2 d" , 1 $ ; Tratax'CORE, Pirmad {Mrs. Imray), 1 5 ; Ceylon, 

 c? , 1 $ type ; Pexaxg {Ridlci/), 1 6 ; Johore {BiiUei/), 1 c? ; 



Singapore {B/'dlei/), 3 c? ; Celebes ; Queensland, Brisbane 

 {Turner), 2 6. Kxy. 24-28 millim. 



8397. Phytomstra transfixa. (Plate CCXXXTX. fig. 8.) 



Ahrosfola transfi.rn, Wlk. xii. 884 (1857). 



Hahrostola conunidcndri, Wollasl. A.M. N. H. (5) iii. p. 230 (18701. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the ti])s of tegula? 

 and dorsum of tliorax red-brown, the tegul* with black medial 

 line and the patagia witli curved black line near base ; tibiie at 

 extremities, the spurs and tarsi ringed wit) i white; abdomen grey 

 suffused with red-l)rown, the crests dark brown and grey, the 

 ventral surface grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing ]iur])lish 

 grey tinged with red-brown and striated with blackish ; sublia.sal 

 line dovible, brown and excurved from costa to a curved black line 

 from base of subcostal nervure to vein 1, where it is met by an 



