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«8. Fore with without blact-brown 

 patch on medial area below the 



cell daiibci. 



is. Fore wing with black-brown 

 patch on medial area below the 



cell indicator. 



h'. Fore wing with the markings not 



silvery-white ohiusiaigva. 



d^. Fore wing willi tlie stigma below tlie cell 

 very elongate and oblique V-shaped with 



its lower part not bent outwards Icciida. 



c*. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell 

 formed by two obliquely-placed elongate 



elliptical silvery spots distalagma. 



P. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal 

 areas metallic gold, 

 a"*. Foi-e wing with the golden area emitting 

 an oblique spur to the cell below the 



orbicular hracJiychakea. 



//'. Fore wing with the golden area not 

 emitting an oblique spur to the cell 

 below the orbicular hijxtrtiia. 



8284. Phytometra gammaloba. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 5.) 

 Thisia gammaloba, Hmpsu. A. M. N. li. (8) v. p. 430 (1910). 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with grey ; tegulse 

 with sHght dark medial line and white tijDS ; abdomen pale rufous, 

 the basal crest fiery red tipped with grey, the crest on 2nd segment 

 brown tipped with grey. Fore wing bright golden cupreous with 

 slight dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by a silvery striga 

 from costa and double striga from cell ; antemedial line silvery 

 defined by cupreous brown, excurved below costa, angled inwards 

 in cell, oblique and sinuous from cell to inner margin ; the stigma 

 formed by a small black spot defined at sides by silvery strise 

 above median nervure and a Y-shaped silvery mark below the 

 cell filled m with whitish, its tail bent outwards and dilated into a 

 triangular lobe filled in with silvery-white ; reniform represented 

 by a silvery striga on upper discocellular with elliptical cupreous 

 brown mark beyond it and two silvery stri^ below forming with 

 the median nervure an incomplete triangle ; postmedial line in- 

 distinctly double filled in with silvery-grey, obliquely curved 

 and minutely waved from costa to submedian fold where it is 

 angled inwards, then bent outwards, some grey-white suffusion 

 before and beyond it from costa to vein 3, narrowing below ; 

 subterminal line silvery-Avhite. excurved from costa to vein 6, 

 then oblique, some grey-white beyond it at middle and m sub- 

 median interspace ; a fine silvery-white line just before termen ; 

 cilia grey- white mixed with cupreous brown. Hind wing cupreous 

 brown, the cilia with fine whitish line at base and white tips ; the 

 underside whitish suffused and irrorated with red-brown, an in- 

 distinct oblique postmedial line, the area beyond it dark brown 

 with a cupreous gloss. 



