562 NOCTUID.^. 



pectus and legs wliite ; abdomen white slightly tinged with rufous, 

 the crests with more rufous. Fore wing ])iile chestnut irrorated with 

 white, more thickly on costal area, tlie inner area with yellowisli 

 white suffusion to the postmedial line, extending to the cell on 

 antemedial area ; subbasal line fine, Avhite, curved, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; orbicular defined by white, obli(|ue elliptical ; a round 

 stigma defined by white below the cell ; reniform with fine white out- 

 line, figure-of-eight-shaped ; postmedial line indistinct, fine, Avhite, 

 exeurved below costa and oblicpie below vein 4 ; an indistinct 

 somewhat dentate white svibterminal line ; a brown terminal line ; 

 cilia wliite and i-ufous at tips. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 pale chestnut ; cilia white mixed with rufous ; the underside white 

 tinged with pale rufous. 



JIah. Asia Minor ; Mesopotamia, 1 <S . Exp. 32 millim. 



*840o. Phytometra maria. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 13.) 



I'lusia maria, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 311 (181)1); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 23G. 



S . Head and thorax mfous mixed with white ; abdomen white 

 tinged witli rufous, the crests rufous tipped with white. Fore 

 wing bright rufous irrorated with white, the veins and submedian 

 fold slightly streaked with white ; a broad inwardly oblique white 

 antemedial band with j^ellowish shade at middle, its edges rather 

 diffused ; the stigmata defined by white, the orbicular rather 

 elongate elliptical, the stigma below the cell oblique elliptical, the 

 reniform constricted at middle ; a broad oblique postmedial white 

 band with yellowish shade at middle, its edges rather diffused ; 

 subterminal line slight, white, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 a fine white line jvist before termen ; cilia with white line near tips. 

 Hind wing ochreous white suffused with red-brown ; a faint dif- 

 fused whitish ])Ostmedial line ; cilia white at tips ; the underside 

 Avhite irrorated with red-brown, a red-brown postmedial shade. 



Ilab. Syria, Mardin ; Palestine in Coll. Piingelcr. Exj). 30 

 millim. 



8406. Phytometra augusta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 14.) 



Vlusia augusta, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 309, pi. 4. f. 5 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 236. 



9 . Head and thorax white slightly mixed with pale brown ; 

 abdomen white tinged with brown. Fore wing very p:de cupreous 

 brown irrorated with white and with the veins white ; subba.'^al line 

 indistinct, fine, white, from costa to vein 1 ; an inwardly oblique 

 white antemedial band, rather dift"used on inner side ; orbicular 

 defined by white, small, oblique elli])tical ; a rather oblique ellip- 

 tical stigma defined by white below the cell ; reniform with fine 

 white outbne, strongly constricted at middle ; an inwardly oblique 

 Avhite ]X)stmedial 1)and with a .'flight Imiwnish line at middle ; a 

 fine white line just before termen ; cilia white and enpreous brown 



