PHYTOMETEA. 453 



defined by brown ; medial line brown, diffused, oblique to the reni- 

 f orm, then inAvardly oblique and bent inwards at submedian fold ; 

 postmedial line brown defined on inner side by golden yellow, 

 slightly incurved below vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 brown, diffused on inner side, excm-ved below vein 7 and at middle ; 



Fig. 115. — J^hytomatra 'ptcrylota, S • \- 



a brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused with ochreous 

 brown, an indistinct oblique brown postmedial line ; the underside 

 more ochreous. 



5 . Head and thorax dark chocolat'e-brown, the scarlet areas 

 more prominent, some of the scales tipped with purple-grey ; legs 

 brown mixed with purple-grey, the fore legs with some scarlet in 

 front ; abdomen brown, the crests darker mixed with rufous and 

 tipped with white, the ventral surface scarlet except at base and 

 extremity ; fore wing dark chocolate-brown "with some scarlet 

 suffusion beyond the subbasal striga and below end of cell, the 

 middle of terminal area suffused with golden cupreous, some purple- 

 grey suffusion before inner part of antemedial Hne, above and 

 beyond end of cell, beyond the postmedial line, and on terminal 

 area towards tornus, a golden yellow mark before the subterminal 

 line between veins 3 and 2 ; hind vidng brown, the cilia tipped vnth 

 white. 



ILab. Hawaii, S.E. Korlan Range, 1 S type, Kilauea {PerTcins), 

 1 ? . Hxp. 42 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male bipectinate wiih short branches endhig in long 

 bristles, serrate towards apex. 



8275. Phytometra psectrocera, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grey ; palpi with 

 the tip of 3rd joint white ; antennae with the shaft ringed with 

 white towards base ; spm-s and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen 

 dark brown mixed with grey. Fore wing dark brown tinged Avitlt 

 grey and irrorated and striated with black, the inner half of medial 

 area darker ; subbasal line represented b,y a. sinuous silveiy striga 



