PHTTOMETKA. 477 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wing redder brown, the last with the 

 silver defining the marking almost obsolete. 



. Hah. Tkansvaal {Cholmley), 1 $ , White R. {Cooke), 1 6 

 type; Natal, Dm-ban {Innes), 1 <S . JSxp. 36-38 millim. 



8302. Phytometra micro stigma. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 16.) 



Flusia microstigma, Hnipsn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 433 (1910). 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey ; 

 antennae with the shaft ringed with white towards base ; tarsi 

 ringed with white. Fore wing golden bronze-brown thickly 

 irrorated with grey ; traces of an oblique antemedial line ; the 

 stigma below the cell small, oblique V-shaped, bent outwards below, 

 its outer arm and a small spot in its apex silvery-white ; orbicular 

 and reniform very indistinctly defined by grey, the former rather 

 oblique elliptical, the latter constricted at middle ; an oblique 

 indistinct rather diffused line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line indistinct, oblique, sinuous ; traces of a 

 dark subterminal line, excurved below vein 7, angled inwards at 

 discal and submedian folds and outwards below vein 4 ; a series of 

 minute white striae just before termen. Hind wing uniform golden 

 bronze-brown ; the cilia with a pale line at base and white tips ; 

 the underside white thickly uTorated with broAvn, the terminal 

 area broadly fuscous with some white irroration near termen. 



Hah. Gold Coast (^Johnston), 1 5 'type. JSxp. 26 millim. 



8303. Phytometra dauhei. 



jPhisia daiibei, Boisd. Gen. & Ind. Meth. p. 159 (1840); Dup. Lep. Fr. 



Suppl. iii. p. 486, pi. 42. f. 1 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 20G ; 



Embr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 6. f. 6; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 70. ff. 5-7; 



Hiiipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 572 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239. 

 Tlusia ciliaris, Wlk. sii. 928 (1867); Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vi. p. 3(5, 



pi. 110. f. 5. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with reddish brown and som^e 

 black-brown, the vertex of head with two blackish strise ; teguke 

 with curved black line at middle ; palpi with white ring at 

 extremity of 2nd joint ; the tibise at exti'emities and tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with pale brown, the crests 

 darker, the lateral tufts of male ochreous. Fore wing white 

 suffused with pale golden-brown and striated with dark brown ; 

 subbasal line white defined on each side by dark brown, from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line silvery -white defined on each side bv 

 brown, angled outwards below costa and at median nervure, 

 incurved in cell and submedian fold, then excurved ; orbicular with 

 silvery-white outline, its centre defined by blackish, very narrow 

 and oblique ; an elongate oblique silvery-white V-shaped stigma 

 below the cell, extending below vein 2 to near the postmedial line, 

 some golden-brown suffusion before and beyond it ; reniform with 

 silvery-white outline, its centre defined by blackish, constricted at 



