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the ventral surface whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale 

 purplish tinged with red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark 

 brown, a patch below end of cell and the terminal area except 

 towards apex and tornus golden cupreous ; antemedial line diffused, 

 red-brown, curved ; two small elongate obliquely placed silver spots 

 below the cell, the upper with some rufous in centre ; a diffused 

 red-brown discoidal patch ; an indistinct diffused oblique brown 

 line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 brown, bent outwards and obsolescent below costa, then oblique, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 3 and excurved 

 below submedian fold, some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, brown, slightly excurved at vein 7 and 

 oblique towards inner margin ; a silvery- white line before termen 

 from below apex to submedian fold. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with dark brown from 

 below apex to near tornus ; the underside white tinged with rufous 

 and slightly irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal lunule 

 and diffused postmedial and subterminal lines with a dark shade 

 between them except towards costa. 



Hah. Tbansvaal, Johannesburg (Boss), 1 $ type. JiJa^j^. 

 32 millim. 



8308. Phytometra brachychalcea, n. sp. 

 (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 18.) 



Head and tegulse fiery red and yellow, the latter with brown and 

 white lines near base, at middle, and at tips ; thorax red-brown, the 

 dorsal crest with fiery red and yellow above, the patagia with 

 oblique brown and white line at middle and brown and white tips ; 

 pectus yellow and fiery red in front ; abdomen yellow tinged with 

 rufous, the crests dark brown and white at tips. Fore wing 

 chestnut-red striated with brown and irrorated with silverv- white, 

 the postmedial and terminal areas except towards costa and inner 

 margin brilliant metallic gold, emitting an oblique spur above and 

 below vein 2 to the median nervure where it ends bluntly below 

 the orbicular ; subbasal line slight, silver}^, oblique, sinuous, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line slight, silvery, waved, strongly 

 incurved in the cell ; orbicular and reniform with slight silvery 

 outlines, the former narrow, oblique, the latter with its outer edge 

 strongly constricted at middle ; postmedial line double, red-brown 

 filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very 

 slightly angled outwards at discal fold and vein 3 and bent 

 outwards below submedian fold, hardly traceable on the gold area ; 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line red-brown, 

 indistinct on the gold area, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, below 

 veins 4 and 3, and at vein 1 ; the termen red-brown ; a waved 

 brown line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish white, the veins 

 and terminal half suffused mth red-brown ; cilia whitish tinged 

 with red-brown and with a red-brown line near base ; the imderside 



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