574 NOCTUIDiE. 



then erect ; subterminal line very indistinct, dark, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle and incurved below vein 3 ; a narrow pale 

 terminal band beyond the cupreous suffusion except at a])ex. Hind 

 Aving greyish suffused with red-brown, the terminal area darker ; 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the underside grey iiTorated 

 with brown, a brown discoidal striga and diffused postmedial and 

 subterminal lines with a broAVTi band between them except towards 

 costa, the subtenuinal line angled ovitwai'ds at vein 5. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, typef $ fumifera in Coll. Piingeler ; 

 Japan, Tokio {Maries), 1 $ , Yokohama {Jonas, Pryer), 1 S , 

 3 2 , Kiushiu, 1 6 ; Sikhim ; Assam {Baclfjley), 1 S ; Bexgal, 

 Pusa {Lpfroy), 1 S ; Bombay, Kanai-a {Ward), 1 S ; Cevlox 

 {TempJe'ton), 1 <5 ; A>-dama>-s, 1 6 ; Java {KorsJi&Id), 4 d" , 

 3 2 type agramma ; Queexslaxd, Moreton Bay {Darnel, Diggles), 

 2 2 type inchoata. Exp. 42-52 millim. 



Larva green with lateral black spots, some short pointed black 

 dorsal spines, stoutest on 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 11th somites ; a 

 prominent white subdorsal and waved lateral line. Food-plants, 

 CucurhitacecB. 



8428. Phytometra hehetata. 



riusia hebefata, Bull. 111. ITet. B.M. -fii. p. 71, pi. 131. f. 1 (1889); 

 Hiupsn. Moths Ind. ii. p, 574. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with violaceous grey, the tegulse 

 with whitish tips ; abdomen gi-ey tinged with rufous, the crests 

 rufous tipped with gi'ey. Fore wing violaceous grey suffused with 

 rufous, the terminal area with a cupreous tinge except towards apex 

 and tornus ; a slight subbasal line from costa to submedian fold with 

 a red-brown shade beyond it ; antemedial line slight, red-brown 

 defined on each side by violaceous gi'ey, inwardly oblique, slightly 

 bent outwards at median nervure, a red-brown shade beyond it ; 

 orbicular with faint whitish annulus, elliptical; reniform faintly 

 defined by brown, its annulus represented by some white scales, its 

 outer edge indented at middle ; a diffused medial red-brown line, 

 oblique to lower angle of cell, then sinuous ; postmedial line brown 

 with a red-brown shade before it, bent ovitwards below costa, then 

 oblique and sinuous, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line red-brown, defined on outer side by some whitish 

 scales below vein 3, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards 

 below veins 4 and 3 ; traces of a white line before termen from 

 apex to vein 2. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, an 

 indistinct postmedial line and fine pale line at base of cilia ; the 

 underside white tinged with brown, a brownish bar from middle of 

 costa and diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Japan, Tokio {Maries), 1 6 ; PrxJAB, Kulu, Sultanpur 

 {G. Younq, Hncl-ing), 2 c? , 2 2 type, Simla {Swinhoe), 1 cT . 

 E.rp. 40-52 millim. 



