558 NOCTUTD.E. 



obliciue black line from the cell ; antemedial line double, black, 

 angled outwards below costa and at median nervure, then oldique 

 and sinuous ; orbicular with yellowisli white outline and its centra 

 defined hy rufous, very narrow and oblique ; a very narrow obliqui 

 and elongate yellowish white V-shaped stigma below the cell, 

 extending to just beyond the postmedial line, its arms filled in 

 with wliite ; reniform defined by black, nari'ow, its inner edge 

 slightly indented above and its upper extremity slightly produced ; 

 postmedial line double, brown, the outer line black towards inner 

 margin, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely 

 waved to submedian fold, then excurved, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line fine, black, dentate, with 

 black streaks before it below veins 5 and 4, and angled inwards 

 at vein 2 and submedian fold ; a waved black terminal line. Hind 

 wing brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces of basal half 

 whitish ; cilia white with a series of brown spots ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown, the costal and terminal areas greyish, 

 a slight brown discoidal bar and rather diffused postmedial and 

 svibterminal lines. 



JLib. St. Helena (WoIIasfon), 2 (5,3$ type commidcnJri ; 

 Bk. E. Afiuca, Eb Urru (^Befto)i), 1 § , Machakos {C raw shay), 

 1 d , 1 ? ; Rhodesia, Bulawayo (Marshall), 2 5 ; Tbanstaai;, 

 Pretoria ( Distant), 1 $, Johannesburg {Distant), 1 c? , 1 $ ; 

 Natal, ])urban (Gurinzias), 1 c? , 2 5 tvpe ; Mauritius, 

 Curepipe (Talloch), 1 $ . Hxp. 34-42 millim.'^ 



Larva. Green with fine partly confluent sinuous white subdorsal 

 lines interru])ted by the minute white warts, each with a dark hair; 

 spiracular line narrow, yellowish white ; head yellowish green 

 sparsely dotted with black ; two pairs of ventral claspers. Food- 

 plant, Gomniidenih'on rohustuni. Pupates in a cocoon of white sUk. 



8398. Phytometra arachnoides. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 9.) 

 Pltisia arachnoides, Dist. Entoin. xxxiv. p. 285 (1901). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey-white, the 

 teguhe at middle and tips and the iirothorax with white lines ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, ventrally irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing grey suffused with cupreous red-brown and 

 slightlv irrorated with dark l)rown, the veins streaked with white; 

 antemedial line double, white, angled outwards on median nervure, 

 then oblique ; orbicular defined by silvery-white, narrow, oblique ; 

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

 with oblique white streak from below costa through the orbicular 

 to between its arms ; reniform slightly defined by white and 

 strongly constricted at lulddle ; postmedial line double, white, 

 bent outwards below costa, obli(|uely curved to vein 4, then 

 almost obsolete and incurved to vein 2 and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold to below the V-shaped stigma and angled outwards 

 on vein 1 ; subterminal line white, excurved to vein 4 where it is 



