PHTTOMETEA. 473 



829t). Phytometra tarassota, n. n. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 13.) 



Plusia confusa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 149 (1882), nee Stephens, 1850 ; 

 Hinpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p. 568. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with ochreous and a few black 

 scales ; antennae blackish ; tegulse tipped with white ; tibiae and 

 tarsi ringed with whitish, the spui's black and white ; abdomen 

 brownish ochreous, the crests browner. Fore wing ochreous 

 irrorated and suffused with brown with a golden gloss, especially on 

 inner half of medial area and before the subterminal line ; subbasal 

 line white, excurved below costa and ending at vein 1, a black striga 

 before it below the cell ; antemedial line whitish defined on each 

 side by brown, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, 

 oblique and sinuous below the cell, two slight black marks before it 

 on inner margin ; orbicular with whitish annulus, narrow, oblique ; 

 an oblique silvery U-shaped stigma below the cell, vnth a spot 

 beyond its lower extremity ; renif orm very obscurely defined with 

 four black points in its angles ; postmedial line double, brown 

 filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, somewhat incurved at discal fold and angled inwards below 

 submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish defined on inner side by golden-brown suffusion, angled 

 outwards at veins 7, 6 and excurved above and below vein 3 ; a line 

 formed of whitish striae before termen, a terminal series of slight 

 blackish lunules, and a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing 

 brown with a golden gloss ; cilia white vsdth a brown line near base ; 

 the underside ochreous white irrorated vsdth brown, the terminal 

 area suffused vnth brown, a brown discoidal lunule and rather 

 diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing vdth the stigma forming a Y-mark. 



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8297. Phytometra fiircifera. 



Plusko furcifem, Wlk. xii. 927 (1857) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i!. p. 568. 

 Plusia mutans, Wlk. xxxiii. 839 (1865); Hinpsn. 111. Het. E.M. ix. p. 101, 



pi. 162. f. 5. 

 Plusia ogovana. HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 9 (1894). 

 Plusia babooni, Beth.-Eaker, Not. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906). 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with whitish ; tegulae with 

 black line at middle and white tips ; pectus and legs white tinged 

 with brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen white 

 tinged with brown, the crest rufous and white, Fore wing white 

 thickly irrorated and striated vdth red-brown and glossed with 

 golden cupreous ; subbasal line whitish defined on each side by 

 red-brown, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line whitish 

 defined on each side by red-brown, angled inwards in cell and 

 inwardly oblique below the cell ; orbicular with whitish annulus, 

 narrow, oblique ; an oblique silvery-white Y-shaped stigma below 



