PHTTOMETRA. 5(57 



brown patch beyond it before the postmediul line ; medial line 

 brown, excurved at median nervure, then oblique ; postmedial line 

 double, brown filled in with olive, slightly excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line brown defined on inner 

 side by pale red-brown suffusion, slightly excurved at middle ; the 

 veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; a brown terminal 

 line ; cilia chequered brown and olive. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused ^\■ith brown especially on terminal half, an indistinct post- 

 medial line ; cilia ochreous ; the miderside yellow with large dis- 

 coidal spot, postmedial and subteiTuinal lines, and dark terminal 

 line. 



Hab. Asia Minoe, Taurus, Zeitun. Ea-j). 38 millim. This 

 species is unknown to me. 



8413. Phytometra cashmirensis. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. IG.) 



Eitchalcia catihmiren^is, Moore, P. Z. S. 1S81, p. 37G ; Hiupsu. Moths Iiid. 

 ii. p. 575 ; Staud. Gat. Lep. pal. p. 236. 



S . Head and thorax whitish tinged with olive-brown, the 

 tegidse with red-brown line near tips, the patagia and metathorax 

 suffused with red-brown ; antennaj inifous ; abdomen whitish suf- 

 fused with rufous. Fore wing olive-white, tinged with rufous 

 especially on medial area and irrorated with dark brown ; an indis- 

 tinct whitish subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 whitish, angled outwards below costa, incm-ved in cell, then oblique 

 and slightly excurved at vein 1 ; stigmata defined by whitish, the 

 orbicidar oblique elliptical, the stigma below the cell U-shaped, the 

 reniform oblique, some deeper red-brown between orbicular and 

 reniform ; postmedial line whitish slightly defined on each side by 

 brown, oblique to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line whitish, 

 very slightly excurved below costa and incurved below vein 4, 

 ending: at tornus, a slight fulvous mark before it at inner margin ; 

 a finewhitish line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown ; cilia 

 with a whitish line at base ; the underside j'ellowish white, the 

 costa and inner margin tinged with i-ufous, a slight dark discoidal 

 lunvde and diffused postmedial line except towards costa. 



Hah. Kashmir, Barra Larcha (Mc Arthur), 3 d , Goorais 

 Valley (LeecJi), 1 6 . Exp. 32 millim. 



8414. Phytometra herricM. 



Plusia renardi, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, v. p. 112 (1855); Herr.- 



Schaff. Neue Schmett. p. 26, f. 128 (nee Ev.). 

 Plusia tira/eusis, Eellier, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1859, p. 192, pi. 5. ff. 7, 8 



(nee Ev.). 

 Fltisia herrichi, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 18G1, p. 283; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 236. 

 Plusia eversmatmi, Staud. Iris, ix. p. 372, pi. 4. f. 6 (1896). 

 Flusia bellieri, Kirby, Butt. & Motlis Eur. p. 269 (1900). 



5 . Head and thorax pale rufous ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 brown, the crests pale rufous. Fore wing pale brownish grey, the 



