104 NOCTUID^. 



Phycidimorpha rosea. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 22.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Male. Antennae ochreous; head and thorax pale rosy pink; abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Fore Tving rosy pink ; the costa narrowly white ; a dark submarginal speck in the intcrno- 

 median interspace j a series of marginal black specks in the interspaces. Hind wing whitish, 

 suffused with fuscous towards apex and outer margin. 



CATEPHINyE. 



Arete coerulea, Guen. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 5 (larva).) 

 Cocytodes coerulea, G%i,en. Noct. iii. p. 41. 



Larva. Head black ; the mandibles brown j somites black, with transverse dorsal white 

 bars, each enclosing a black line ; the stigmata are ochreous and black-ringed with some red 

 round them, and situated on a white patch with a black spot near the top from which springs 

 a white hair, a similar spot at the bottom of the white patch ; an interspiracular discon- 

 nected white line ; a broader subspiracular line with a black spot from which springs a 

 white hair below each spiracle; a broad ventral white band; the eleventh somite humped and 

 black dorsally ; the anal somite dorsally orange, spotted with black ; head and somites with 

 sparselj' scattered, long, white hairs ; eight pairs of legs. 



Length of blown larva 2^ inches. Food-plant Bcehmeria. 



Gyrtona hylusalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXIII. figs. 18, 2L) 

 Gyrtona hylusalis, WVc Cat. xxvii. p. 93. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Head and thorax dark brown with a purplish gloss ; abdomen dull brown. Fore wiug 

 grey with brown sufl'usion and patches and with a purplish gloss, the most prominent darker 

 patches being one at the base, a broad medial band, and a patch surrounding the reniform 

 stigma; indistinct double waved subbasal, autemcdial, postmedial, and submarginal brown 

 lines. Hind wmg fuscous. 



Some specimens are paler and more iiniform brown. 



Gyrtona thoracica, WIJ;. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 19.) 

 Gyrtona thoraeia, WR-. Cut. xxvii. p. '.). 



Expanse 1 ,'._. inch. 



Diff'ers from lujIusaUs in the head, thorax, and abdomen being almost white. Fore wing 

 with the basal half of the wing suffused with black; the outer half whitish, the area at outer 

 angle suffused -with black. Hind wing paler fuscous. 



