482 NOCTUIDiE. 



yellowish wliite, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with red- 

 brown, a brown diseoidul striga and diffused postmedial and 

 subterminal lines. 



Hah. Japan, Tokio {Maries), 1 ,5 , 1 $ , Yokohama {Jonas), 

 2 5 , Satsmna {Leech), 1 $ , Tsm-uga {Leech), 1 $ ; LooCHOO Is. 

 {Pryer), 1 6 ; Formosa {Hohson), 1 § ; W. China, Chang-yang 

 {Pratt), 1 $ , Psu-tsu-fang, 1 S , Omei-shan, 1 (S , Kwei-chow, 



1 6, Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 1 J, Monpin {Krichelclorf), 2 6; 

 Assam {Badgley), 1 $ , Shillong {Parish), 2 $ ; Madeas, Nil- 

 giris {Ilamjjson), 2 c? , 3 5 "type; Ceylon {Templeton, Lewis), 



2 S . Escp. 40-46 millira. 



*8309. Phytometra bipartita. 



Phisia bipartita, Snell. Tijd. t. Ent. xxiii. p. 71, pi. 6. f. 2 (1880). 

 Fluda eJceikei, Beth.-Baker, Not. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906). 



S . Head and thorax fiery orange-red, the tegulae with rufous 

 lines at middle and tips and tipped with white, the patagia rufous 

 mixed with white, the meso- and metathoracic crests tipped with 

 rufous and white ; pectus and legs yellowish tinged with rufous ; 

 abdomen yellow tinged with rufous, the basal crests i-ufous. Pore 

 wing grey-white suffused and striated with rufous to the post- 

 medial line, then brilliant metallic gold striated with rafous, the 

 gold extending to cell above and below base of vein 2 ; subbasal 

 line represented by slight double inwardly oblique white striae 

 from costa ; antemedial line slight, double filled in with whitish, 

 excurved to median nervure, then inwardly obliqiie and sinuous ; 

 orbicular and reniform slightly defined by white, the fonner 

 oblique V-shaped, somewhat constricted at middle, the latter 

 strongly constricted at middle ; postmedial line rufous, very 

 oblique from costa to middle of submedian fold, then excurved 

 and indistinctly double ; subterminal line rufous, slightly angled 

 at vein 7, then oblique and slightly excurved below submedian 

 fold ; a fine riif ous terminal line ; cilia white mixed with rufous 

 and with waved rufous line through them. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, the terminal half suffused with red-brown ; cilia white with 

 a red-brown line thro^lgh them ; the underside yellowish white 

 with faint diffused red-brown postmedial line from costa to vein 2. 



JLah. Celebes ; Be. N. Guinea, Ekeikei {Pratt), type f c? 

 ekeikei in Coll. Bethune-Baker. LJj-jj. 38 millim. 



b. Hind tarsi of male witbout comb of long spines on 

 Ist joint. 

 «i. Fore wing witb the stigma below the cell 

 U-shaped with a spot beyond its lower extremity 

 or conjoined to it. 

 «2. Fore wing with the medial area below the cell 

 suffused with golden cupreous. 

 «3, Fore wing with the stigma below the cell 

 large, the U-mark broad, the postmedial 

 line angled inwards at submedian fold .. ... chalcytes. 



