472 NOCTUIDiE. 



8295. Phytometra limbirena. 



Plusia gamna, Koll. Hiigel's Kasclimir, iv. p. 481 (nee Linn.). 

 Plusia li7nbirc?ia, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 350 (1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 

 p. 72, pi. 152. f. 5 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 668. 



Head and thorax dark chocolate-brown mixed with grey- white ; 

 tegulse with black line at middle and whitish tips ; tarsi dark brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen pale brown with .some white hair at 

 base of sides, the crests dark brown, the lateral tufts of male rufous, 

 the ventral surface brown mixed with grey. Fore wing purplish 

 grey suffused in parts with deep chocolate -brown and irrorated with 

 black, the medial area with a deep chocolate-brown patch below the 

 cell ; subbasal line slight, pale, sinuous, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line double, chocolate-brown filled in with silvery- 

 white, waved, incurved in cell and oblique below the cell ; orbicular 

 with faint pale outline and its centre defined by blackish, narrow, 

 oblique, constricted at middle; an oblique brilliant silver U-shaped 

 stigma below the cell, its lower extremity somewhat bent inwards 

 and with an ellijotical spot beyond it ; reniform very faintl}^ defined 

 by black-brown ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown, filled in 

 with silver at inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and minutely waved, angled inwards at submedian fold and bent 

 outwards below it, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, dark, with some silvery points on its 

 outer side, chocolate-brown shades before it from costa to vein 4 

 and below vein 2, and beyond it at middle, the line excm-ved below 

 vein 7, then incurved ; a fine waved black terminal line with minute 

 strife before it on apical half, and a flesh-colom"ed spot defined on 

 inner side by black at middle. Hind wing white, the inner area 

 suffused with cupreous brown, the veins and terminal area dark 

 cupreous brown ; cilia white with a cupreous brown line through 

 them ; the \mderside v^^hite irroi'ated with brown especially on costal 

 area, the terminal area suffused with brown, a slight discoidal striga 

 and diffused postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma in the form of a Y-mark. 



Hind tibife with the comb formed by two spines only. 



Sab. St. Helena (Wollaston), 2 J , 3 ? ; Br. E. Africa, Eb 

 ITrru {Betton), 1 cJ , 1 2 , Lagari {Betton), 1 $ , Machakos 

 {Craivshay), 1 J, 1 § ; Uganda, Entebbe {Wollaston), 1 $, 

 ■liuwenzori {Wollaston), 1 2; Germ. E. Africa, Utangu Distr. 

 (Weave), 1 c5" ; Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 2 J , 1 2 ; 

 LoRENgo Marques {Junod), 1 c? , 1 2 ; Transvaal, White R. 

 iCooTce), 1 2 , Pretoria {Distant), 1 2 ; Natal, Estcourt {Hutcliin- 

 son), 1 2» Durban {ClarJc), 1 cS ; Cape Colony (Sir A. Smith), 

 Id, 12; Madagascar, Betsileo {Coivan), 1 2 ; Mauritius, 

 Curepipe {Tulloch), 1 2 ; Aden {Yerhury), 1 6 ; Madras, Nilgiris 

 {Ilampson), 4 6; Cetlon {G?'ee7i),l 2 , Kandy ( J/efffl^e- 7F«Mo), 

 1 2 > Udagama {Machwood), 1 S • J^scp. 32-42 millim. 



