sen xoctutb.t:. 



fonut'd by a iniiiute silver lunvile above median nervure towards 

 end of cell, a round spot below median nervure almost or quite 

 touching an elliptieal spot with another rovmd spot below it; 

 reniforin faintly defined by grey and strongly constricted at middle ; 

 jiostmedial line very slight and indistinct, grey, sinuous, angled 

 inwards in submedian fold below the silvery stigma ; the veins of 

 terminal area slio-htly streaked with m-cy : a fine waved eri'ev sub- 

 terminal line and fine waved grey line just before termen. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with reddish brown especially on terminal 

 area ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, the terminal area suifvised with 

 broA\Ti, a brown discoidal lunule and faint subterminal shade. 



Ilab. Traxstaal, White E. (Cooh'), 1 $; Natal, Dm-ban 

 (Bell-Marlei/), 1 $ type. IJ.iy. 34 millim. 



8401. Phytometra disticta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 11.) 



5 . Head and tegulje pale red slightly irrorated with brown, the 

 antennas whitish tinged with brown ; thorax pale red-brown mixed 

 with whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged with pale red-browm. Fore 

 wing whitish tinged with pale red and striated yviih red-bro'STO ; 

 antemedial line red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, angled 

 outwards below costa, incurved and almost obsolete in cell, then 

 oblique ; two obliquely placed silver points defined by red-brown 

 below the cell ; a red-brown discoidal patch ; a diffused red-brown 

 medial line, oblique to the reniform and inwardly oblique below it ; 

 postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards and almost obsolete below 

 costa, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line red-bro^^^^, excurved 

 below vein 7, then oblique and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3; 

 a fine waved red-brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 and irrorated with pale red-brown ; a fine red-brown terminal line ; 

 cilia white faintlv tinQ;ed with red : the underside white tiny-ed 

 with pale red, a slight brownish discoidal lunule, indistinct diffused 

 postuiedial line, and diffused waved subterminal line. 



Hab. PERU,Callao (J.J. Walker), 1 $ type. ^.r^;. 36 millim. 



8402. Phytometra hampsoni. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 12.) 

 Plusia hampsoni, Leecli, Trau?. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 586. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with whitish 

 and some black ; palpi black-brown, the extremities of 1st and 2nd 

 joints ochreous ; frons with lateral black bars ; tibia^ black-lirown 

 at base, the tai*si l)lack-l>rown ringed with white ; abdomen with 

 the crests blackish at ti])s. Fore wing golden brown with a few 

 black stria' ; subbasal line white, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line white, incm-ved in cell and angled outwards at 

 median nervure, then oblique, sinuous ; orbicular with whitish 

 centre defined by black and white annidus, round ; reniform 

 blackish with gi-ey-white annidus, elliptical; a small round white 



