PHYTOMETKA. 455 



pale violaceous grey irrorated with a few black scales and suffused 

 in parts with brown, esjDCcially the medial area below the cell and 

 the area before the subterininal line ; subbasal line silvery- white 

 defined on each side by black-brown, from costa to submedian fold; 

 antemedial line silvery- white defined on each side by black-brown, 

 excurved below costa, almost obsolete in cell, then excurved and 

 slightly waved; orbicular a faint blackish U-shaped mark; an 

 oblique silvery Y-shaped mark below the cell, defined by black and 

 its arms filled in with grey ; reniform defined by brown and with 

 white strife at inner and outer extremites below, slightly constr'cted 

 at middle and angled inwards on median nervnre ; an indistinct 

 diffused brown medial line, excurved to vein 2, then incurved ; 

 postmedial line double, brown filled in with violaceous grey, angled 

 inwards at discal fold, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold where 



Eig. 117. — Vhytometra lavendula, S- f- 



it is angled inwards, angled outwards at vein 1, some white striae 

 with dark streaks between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line white defined on inner side by brown suffusion, slightly 

 incurved below costa and strongly at discal fold, angled outwards 

 below vein 4, then incurved and ending at tornus ; dentate brown 

 shades before termen below apex and at middle ; a fine waved dark 

 terminal line with a pair of minute black spots at vein 4 ; cilia 

 white, chequered with black at the veins. Hind wing white tinged 

 with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown ; a whitish 

 subterminal mark at discal fold and terminal mark below vein 2 ; 

 cilia white chequered with brown at the veins ; the underside white 

 with diffused brownish postmedial and subterminal lines. 

 Hah. Cape Colony, 1 c5" type. J^xp. 42 millim. 



*8277. Phytometra gerda. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 1.) 



Plusia gerda, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 224, pi. 8. f. 8 (1907). 



S . Head rufous ; thorax whitish suffused with rufous ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with brown, the crests rufous tipped with white, 

 the anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing brownish white sparsely 

 striated with brown, the medial area red-brown below the cell and 

 suffused with red-brown towards costa ; antemedial line whitish 

 slightly defined on inner side by red-brown, excurved below costa, 

 incurved in cell, then obliquely excurved; the stigmata purple- 



