PHTTOMETEA. 465 



whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal striga, sinuous 

 postmedial line, and faint subterminal shade. 



Hah. Uganda, Ruwenzori {Wollaston), 1 $ ; Tjransvaal, 

 Pretoria {Distant), 1 6 ; Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 6 , 

 1 $ type, Durban {Clark), 1 6 ■ Exp. 30-34 millim. 



8287. Phytometra circumscripta. 



Ph'.Hia cirmimscripta, Frr. Neiie Beitr. i. p. 42, pi. 23. f. 2 (1831) ; Geyer, 

 Eur. Schiiiett., Noct. f. 865 ; }Jiip. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 489, pi. 42. 

 f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal.'p. 237. 



d" . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purple-grey, the 

 tegulse fiery red at base ; abdomen grey -brown suffused with 

 rufous, the crests dark brown and grey at tips. Fore wing 

 purple-grey suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the inner half 

 of medial area and the terminal area except at apex and tornus 

 bright rufous with a golden gloss ; subbasal line slight, silvery- 

 whitish, from costa to submedian fold, a rufous and gold patch 

 beyond it below the cell ; a silvery stigma below the cell consisting 

 of a very narrow oblique U-shaped mark with streak from it to 

 antemedial line on median nervure and elliptical spot beyond its 

 lower extremity ; postmedial line brown defined on oi\ter side by 

 silvery- whitish and with a silver line before it from vein 3 to inner 

 margin, oblique, excurved above inner margin, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subtenninal line indistinct, brownish, oblique 

 to vein 5 and slightly excurved at middle, some silvery- white on it 

 below vein 2 ; a silvery-white terminal line from just below apex to 

 vein 2. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous brown, the 

 terminal area cupreous brown, a slight brown j^ostmedial line ; cilia 

 whitish with a brown line near base ; the underside whitish tinged 

 and irrorated with red-brown, a rather diffused brown postmedial 

 line and faint subterminal shade. 



Hah. Sicily, 2 S ; Greece, 1 6 ; Ceete ; Syria. Exp. 30- 

 36 millim. 



8288. Phytometra verruca. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 7.) 



Nociua 00, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 45, pi. 311. f. F (1782), nee f. E. 

 Nochia verruca, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 81 (1794) ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y, 



Ent. Soe. x. pi. viii. f. 2 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 250. 

 Argyrogvamma omega, Hiibn. Ziitr. ii. p. 29, i¥. 373-4 (1823). 

 Autographa omicron, Hiibn. Verz. p. 251 (1827), 

 Plusia qucBsiionis, Trait. Schmett. Eur. x. 2. p. 132 (1835), nee Fabr. 

 riusia rutila, Wlk. xxxiii. 837 (1865). 



Head yellow suffused with fiery red, the antennae brownish; 

 thorax deep brown, some of the scales tipped with grey; pectus 

 and hind legs brownish white ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 brown, the crests deep brown. Pore wing greyish suffused and 

 irrorated with deep brown and ahnost entirely glossed with brilliant 



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