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whitish band bej^ond it and some whitish points on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line blackish defined on outer side by some silver, exctirved 

 below vein 7, angled inwards at discal fold, exem^ved at middle, 

 then very minutely dentate ; a fine black terminal line preceded 

 by two whitish lines with a fine brown line between them ; cilia 

 whitish with a slight!}^ waved brown line through them. Hind 

 wing oehreous white, the veins and terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; cilia white with an interrupted brown line through them ; 

 the underside oehreous white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal striga and faint diffused postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. 



Hab. Co]S"GO {Curror)^ 1 5 type indicator; Mashokaland, 

 Salisbury {Marshall), 1 5; Ehodesia, Bulawayo {Marshall), 

 3 c5' , 1 $ ; Teanstaal, Pretoria {Janse), 1 5 ; Natal, Estcourt 

 {Hutchinson), 2 d; Maueitius, Curepipe {Ttdloch), 1 c? , 1 $ , 

 EiuNioif. i!,xj). 28-32 millim. 



8305. Phytometra ottiisisigna. 



Flusia ohtusisigna, Wlk. xii. 930 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 71, 

 pi. 152. ff. 1, la ; Hmpsn, Moths Ind. ii. p. 670. 



Head and thorax white mixed with red-brown, the patagia with 

 oblique white line across them ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white tinged with red-brown, the lateral tufts of male 

 oehreous. Fore wing white irrorated with red-brown ; double 

 subbasal red-brown strise filled in with white from costa and a 

 sinuous black streak below the cell ; antemedial line white defined 

 on each side by red-brown, slightly excurved below costa and 

 incurved in cell, then excurved ; orbicular defined by white, naiTOW, 

 oblique ; an oblique white Y-shaped stigma below the cell ; reniform 

 with incomjjlete white outline and its centre defined by dark 

 brown, constricted at middle where there is a small dark spot 

 beyond it ; a cuj)reous red-brown patch below end of cell beyond 

 the stigma ; postmedial line indistinctly double, red-brown filled 

 in with whitish, slightly bent outwards below costa, then slightly 

 sinuous, inciuwed at discal fold, oblique below vein 3 and excurved 

 below submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on inner side by cupreous red-brown, 

 excurved below vein 7, angled outwards below vein 4, then sinuous ; 

 a fine white line just before termen with a series of minute black 

 streaks beyond it and two more distinct spots towards apex ; cilia 

 white and red-brown with a fine waved white line through them. 

 Hind wing white suffused with cupreous brown especially on 

 terminal area ; cilia white with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside white irrorated with red-brown, indistinct diffused 

 brown postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with U-shaped stigma with spot beyond its 

 lower extremity. 



Hah. Natal, Stanger {Delvin), 1 d ; Bombay, Poona ; 



