PHTTOMETRA. 475 



waved whitish lines before it ; ciha ochreous white. Hind wing 

 oehreous suffused with golden brown, the terminal area darker ; a 

 terminal series of slight dark striae ; cilia white with brown striae 

 near base ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with dark brown, 

 a brown discoidal spot and rather diffused j)Ostmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Hah. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak (Fratt), 2 c5~ type. -£J.r/;>. 

 3G millim. 



8299. Phytometra ablusa. 



Phisia ahlum, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 34 (1874). 



Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with some red-brown and 

 greyish; abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing 

 golden yellow tinged and irrorated with rufous, the end of cell, the 

 area beyond the cell, and the terminal area suffused with pale 

 purple, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line red-brown, 

 sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line red-brown, sinuous 

 to median nervure, then obliqiiely curved ; orbicular indistinct, 

 golden, oblique elliptical; an elongate naiTOW obhque V-shaped 

 golden stigma defined by red-brown below the cell, its lower part 

 bent outwards ; reniform faintly defined by red-brown ; a red- 

 brown medial line oblique to the reniform, then inwardly oblique ; 

 jDostmedial line red-brown, bent outwards below costa, obliquely 

 curved to vein 3, then slightly incurved and excurved below sub- 

 median fold ; subterminal line red-brown, slightly excurved below 

 veins 7, 4, 3 ; a red-brown line before termen from costa to vein 3. 

 Hind wing white tinged with red-brown, the veins and terminal 

 half suffused with red-brown ; cilia pale rufous with a red-brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with rufous, a 

 diffused red-bro-v\m postmedial line. 



Hab. TkajN'svAxVL, Pretoria (Distant), 1 $ ; Natal, Estcourt 

 (Hutchinson), 1 $ ; Cape Colokt, Dordrecht, 1 6, Knj^sna. 

 J^xj). 38 millim. 



8300. Phytometra lunata. 



Noctua lunata, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. Ifi3 (1787). 



IHusia anargyra, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 351 (1852); Hmpsii. Moths lud. ii. 



p. 575. 

 Vlmia spoliata, Wlk. xii. 923 (1857) ; Hiupsn. 111. Het. B.M. viii. p. IG, 



pi. 149. f. 7. 

 Fltisia reticulata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 148 (1882). 



Head and thorax purplish red-brown slightly mixed with grey, 

 the tegula? and dorsal crest in front with some fulvous yellow ; 

 antennae ringed brown and white ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests 

 dark brown and grey. Fore wing chocolate-brown suffused with 

 purple and slightly irrorated with white, the veins finely streaked 

 with white ; subbasal line fine, silvery- white, sinuous, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line fine, silvery-white, excurved 

 below costa, strongly incmwed in cell, angled outwards at median 



