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darker ; cilia white with a red-brown hne near base ; the underside 

 white tinged with rufous, a diffused brown postmedial hne, the area 

 beyond it suffused with greyish brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with tlie stigma below the cell forming a 

 Y-mark. 



Hah. N. S. Wales, Sydney {Lambert), 2 $ type ; S. Austealia, 

 Parkside {Loiver), 1 $ . Exp. 36 miUim. 



8294. Phytometra angulum. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 12.) 

 Plusia angulum, Gueii. JN'yct. ii. p. 350 (1852). 



Head and thorax bright rufous, the tegulae with slight brown 

 line at middle and white tips, and some of the scales of thorax 

 tij)ped with white ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous suffused with rufous, the crests rufous with some white at 

 tips. Fore wing purple-brown irrorated with white and suffused 

 with golden cupreous especially on terminal area except towards 

 tornus, the medial area with a deeper rufous patch below the cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by two slight oblique white striae from 

 costa ; antemedial line slight, whitish, oblique to middle of cell, 

 then waved ; orbicular defined by whitish except above and with 

 some whitish in centre, oblique elliptical ; an oblique brilliant 

 silver Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its arms with some white 

 between them, its tail short and dilated at extremity ; reniform 

 deep rufous with slight whitish outline very strongly constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line iiifous, bent outwards below costa, then 

 waved to vein 5, obliqiie to submedian fold where it is angled in- 

 wards, then bent outwards, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, brownish, slightly excurved below vein 7, 

 angled inwards at discal fold, exciu'ved below veins 4 and 3 and 

 above vein 1 ; a fine silvery-white line before termen with slight 

 streaks before it in the interspaces from below apex to vein 2 ; the 

 termen and cilia grey mixed with purple-brown. Hind wing 

 ochreous tinged with cupreous brown, the terminal area darker ; 

 cilia ochreous white with a brown line near base ; the underside 

 ochreous white tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown. 



Hah. Teansvaal, Pretoria {Distant), 1 S , Johannesburg 

 (Boss), 1 (S; Natal, Fort Nottingham (Hof^nb^), 1 $, Marits- 

 burg {Serensbtirg), 1 $, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 1 c? , 3 $ , 

 Durban {Marshall, Leigh), 1 cJ, 1 $ ; Basutoland, Maseru 

 {Graicshay), 1 S ; Cape Colony {Drege, Trimen), 1 S , 1 $, 

 Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 3 c? , 1 $ • Bicp. 38-42 miUim. 



Larva. Pale green ; dorsal line double, fine, white ; subdorsal 

 line formed by obscure sinuous whitish strise ; a stronger white 

 lateral line ; warts with one hair ; two anterior pairs of prolegs 

 absent. 



