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tarsi ringed with wliite ; abdomen reddish brown, the crests tipped 

 mtli grej. Fore wing brown glossed witli silvery-grey ; snbbasal 

 line slight, silvery, excurved below costa and ending at vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line slight, silvery, incurved in cell, angled outwards at 

 median nervure, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; orbicular with 

 faint dark outline, rounded ; an irregularly quadrate stigma with 

 faint dark outline below the cell ; reniform with faint dark outline, 

 constricted at middle ; postmedial line slight, dark, bent outwards 

 below costa and oblique below discal fold, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line silvery slightly defined on 

 inner side by reddish brown, oblique and almost straight from apex 

 to tornus ; a fine waved silvery terminal line from apex to vein 2. 

 Hind wing glossy grey-brown ; cilia with fine white line at base 

 and white tips ; the underside grey irrorated with fuscous brown, 

 the base and inner area clothed with grey-brown hair, a dark 

 discoidal stiiga, the postmedial area broadly brown. 



Sab. ? ]Sr. India (Walliouse), 1 $; Mabeas, Gooty {Camp- 

 hell), 1 5 , Nilgiris {Lindsay, Hampson), 3 $ ; Cetlon", Maske- 

 liya {de Mowbray), 1 S type, Pattipola {3£ackwood), 1 $ . Exp. 

 38-42 millim. 



b'^. (Plusiotricha.) Hind tarsi of male with the basal 



joint not fringed with hair above. 



a^. Fore wing with tlie inner medial and terminal 



areas not golden. 



a*. Fore wing without v^hite point beyond the 



stigma below the cell and with white point at 



lower angle of cell livicla. 



bK Fore wing with white point beyond the stigma 

 below the cell and without white point at lower 



angle of cell ^:»7iOCOT. 



6''. Fore wing with the inner medial and terminal 



areas brilliant metallic gold ancofma. 



*8279. Phytometra livida. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 2.) 



Vluaiotricha livida, Holl. Psyche, vii. p. 10, pi. rsi. f. 5 (1904). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; tarsi 

 fuscous with slight pale rings ; the lateral anal tiif ts whitish and 

 the genital tufts blackish. Fore wing dark brown mixed with 

 grey and with a slight cupreous gloss ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight pale striga from costa and two blackish marks below 

 the cell ; antemedial line sHght, pale, oblique from costa to the 

 upper edge of the narrow oblique orbicular, faintly defined by grey 

 and inwardly oblique below the cell from the inner arm of an 

 oblique V-shaped mark below the cell faintly defined by white and 

 somewhat constricted at middle ; some dark reddish brown suffusion 

 at and below end of cell with a minute white point on it at lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinct, double, minutelj'- waved 

 and somewhat angled inwards at submedian fold ; the subterminal 

 area suffused with cupreous brown with a slight whitish striga with 



