4(36 KOCTTJIDiE. 



gold, the medial area below submedian fold brilliant gold ; a slight 

 chocolate-brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line chocolate-brown, indistinctly double, inwardly oblique 

 below the cell ; an oblique elliptical golden spot with silvery 

 annulus below middle of cell, with a minute silveiy spot well 

 beyond its lower extremity ; reniform faintly defined by chocolate- 

 brown, oblique ; a faint oblique sinuous brown line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line chocolate-brown, 

 indistinctly double, excurved below costa, then oblique and slightly 

 sinuous, angled inwards in submedian fold, then excurved ; sub- 

 terminal line chocolate-brown, rather diffused, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and inwards at discal fold, angled outwards below 

 veins 4, 3 and ending at tornus ; a slight chocolate-brown line 

 before termen except towards tornus ; cilia dark brown. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused vnth cupreous brown ; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia whitish ; the underside white faintly tinged with brown, 

 a faint brown subterminal shade. 



Hal). U.S.A., Eastern States, 3 d , 1 ? , Massachusetts, New 

 York, New Jersey, Florida, Kansas, Texas ; Mexico, Jalapa 

 {Trujillo), 1 c?, 1 2, Tabasco, Teapa {H. H. Smith), 1 5, 

 Ventanas (Forrer), 1 $ ; Costa Rica, Candelaria Mts. ( Under- 

 ivood), 1 2 ; Paistama, San Felix {Champion), 1 $, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll., Cana mines {Tylecote), 1 $ ; Jamaica {JElmsley), 

 1 2 type rutila, Runaway Bay {Walsingham), 1 S ; Cuba, 

 Matanzas (Schmis), 1 J ; Dominica {Eliott), 1 $ ; St. Vincent 

 (H. H. Smith), 2 $ ; Colombia, Bogoti (Stevens), 1 5 ; 

 Venezuela (Dyson), 1 $ ; Be. Guiana (Rodway), 1 6 . Exp. 

 30-34 millim. 



8289. Phytometra hemichalcea, n. sp. 

 (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 8.) 



2 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown. Fore wing red-brown 

 mixed with greyish and almost entirely suifused with cupreous 

 gold ; subbasal line silvery defined on oiiter side by brown, ex- 

 curved below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line silvery slightly defined on each side by brown, incurved in 

 cell, then oblique and sinuous ; orbicular narrow, oblique, defined 

 by whitish ; an oblique silvery Y-shaped stigma below middle 

 of cell, filled in with gold and its tail formed by a small spot ; 

 reniform very faintly defined by brown ; traces of a medial brown 

 line from the stigma to inner margin ; postmedial line double, 

 brown filled in with gold, excurved below costa and at middle, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line in- 

 distinct, diffused, brown, angled outwards at vein 7 and below 

 veins 4 and 3, ending at tornus ; a white line just before termen 

 except at apex. Hind wing cupreovis brown ; cilia white tinged 

 Avith brown ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a slight 



