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NOCTUIDiE. 



blackish mark beyond it on its outer edge above and below vein 4. 

 Hind wing dark cujDreous brown, the cilia greyish at tips ; the 

 \inderside with the basal half greyish brown, the terminal half 

 fuscous, the termen greyish. 



Hah. GrABoo^N", Ogowe R., type f 6 in Coll. Holland. Exjy. 

 36 millim. 



8280. Phytometra pliocea. 

 Fhisia pJiocea, Hm])sn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 433 a910). 



Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; tarsi ringed 

 with whitish ; abdomen pale ochreous brown, the basal crest and 

 ventral siirface grey-brown. Fore wing red-brown with a silvery 

 grey gloss ; subbasal line slight, whitish, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line obsolete on costal half, slight oblique and silvery- 

 from cell to inner margin, slightly defined on inner side by dark 

 brown and on outer by a dark shade expanding into a triangular 

 patch below the stigma, which is indistinct silvery U-shaped with 

 a silvery- white point beyond its lower extremity ; reniform very 



Fig. 119. — Fhytometra phocca, S • \- 



indistinct, dark brown Avitli slight silvery points on its inner and 

 outer edges, rather qimdrate ; an indistinct brown spot at middle 

 of costa and oblique shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line slight, silvery defined on each side by dark brown, 

 excurved below costa, then oblique, excurved at middle and bent 

 outwards below submedian fold ; subterminal line silvery-grey 

 defined on inner side by dark brown suffusion, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, then slightly incurved and oblique to tornus, some dark 

 suflhision beyond it at middle ; a series of slight silvery striae just 

 before termen. Hind wing brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia 

 white at tips ; the underside whitish sufhised with brown, the 

 terminal area broadly fuscous brown. 



Hah. UaANDA, Mabira Forest, Chagwe (JVeave), 1 $ , Mbale, 

 Mt. Kokanjero (iVmre), 1 $ ; Natal, Dm-ban (-£". L. ClarJc), 

 2 S type. Ex^). 36 millim. 



