480 ]srocTurD^. 



Madras, Belgatim (Watson), 1 c5" , Nilgiris (Hampson), 1 d* , 1 2 ; 

 Ceylon {Templet on), 1 J , 3 $ ij^e, Badulla (Terbun/), 1 ?; 

 BuiiMA, Kangoon (Scott), 1 d ■ Exp. 24-36 millim. 



Larva. Green with white dorsal lines, subdorsal streaks, and 

 lateral dots ; black dots on 4th to anal somites ; medial prolegs 

 pale red. 



8306. Phytometra lectula. 



Prodenia lectula, Wlk. xv. 1679 (1858); Moore, Lep. Oeyl. iii. p. 73, 



pi. 146. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 576. 

 Vlusia kalitura, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 110. f. 24 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with oehreous ; abdomen 

 ochreous tinged with rufous, the crests and ventral surface browner. 

 Fore wing silvery-grey suffused with red-brown and irrorated with 

 dark brown ; subbasal line silvery defined on each side by red- 

 brown towards costa below which it is excurved, below the cell 

 defined on inner side by black, ending at vein 1 where it is met by 

 an oblique silvery line from median nervure defined on outer side 

 by black ; antemedial line silvery- white, angled outwards below 

 costa and excurved above vein 1 ; orbicular represented by an 

 oblique silvery- white streak on its upper edge; a very elongate 

 and oblique silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell extending 

 to the postmediai line, filled in with yellowish and wdth a black 

 point on the outer arm at median nervure ; reniform very faintly 

 defined by red-brown, constricted at middle and with a minute 

 silvery striga on its inner edge and spot on outer ; postmediai line 

 double, red-brown, filled in with silvery-white between vein 4 and 

 submedian fold and defined on outer side by a greyish shade, bent 

 outwards below costa, then slightly waved, excurved at vein 5, 

 then oblique, some minute whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinctly double, red-brown filled in with 

 greyish, minutely waved, with slight black streaks before it below 

 veins 7 and 6 and with an oblique white mark on it at discal fold ; 

 a narrow whitish terminal band with a rufous shade before it with 

 slight blackish marks on it and fine red-brown lines just before 

 and on termen ; cilia ochreous. Hind wing ochreous white tinged 

 with rufous, the terminal area suffused with ochreous brown ; cilia 

 ochreous white; the underside ochreous white, the costal area 

 irrorated with red-brown and the terminal area suffused with 

 red-brown, a slight discoidal bar and diffused postmediai and 

 subterminal lines, 



Hah. Bengal (Eussell), 2 d ; Bombay, Kanara (Ward), 

 1 c5' , 1 2 type ; Ceylon, Kegalle (Alston), 1 $ . Exp. 28-36 

 millim. 



8307. Pliytometra distalagma, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 17.) 



5 . Head and thorax bright red-brown mixed with some grey- 

 white, the back of head and tegulse tinged with fiery red ; pectus 

 and legs whitish mixed with rufous ; abdomen bright red-brown, 



