PHYTOMEXEA. 489 



8315. Phytometra caudata. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 21.) 



Plmia cmulata, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 105 (1906). 



S ■ Head and thorax red-brown, some of the scales tipped with 

 grey and the metathoracic crest with blackish mixed ; tarsi ringed 

 with whitish ; abdomen pale reddish brown, the crests deep red- 

 brown. Fore wing brownish grey with a metallic golden gloss, 

 suffused in parts with blackish brown and irrorated with black; 

 subbasal line represented by double pale striae from costa ; ante- 

 medial line pale, inwardly oblique, sinuous ; orbicular a small pale 

 oblique elliptical annulus ; reniform slightly defined by black 

 points, narrow, somewhat dilated above and angled inM^ards on 

 median nervure ; a silvery gamma-shaped stigma below the cell ; 

 postmedial line brown defined on each side by flesh-colour, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, waved, angled inwai'ds above 

 vein 1, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 pale defined on inner side by dark brown suffusion, slightly angled 

 outwards at veins 7, 6, then sinuous ; a terminal series of slight 

 blackish lunules. Hind wing cupreous brown, the cilia whitish 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside with the basal 

 half whitish irrorated with cupreous brown, the terminal half 

 suffused with cupreous brown bounded on inner side by a darker 

 postmedial band. 



Hah. Mexico, Orizaba {Scliaus), type f c? in U.S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Costa Rica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), 1 d" . ^xp. 38 millim. 



8316. Phytometra argentifera. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 22.) 



-Plusia argentiferO; Guen Noct. ii. p. 352 (1852). 

 Flusia secundaria, Wlk. xii. 933 (1857). 



Head and thorax pale brown mixed with grey- white ; tegulse and 

 patagia at tips and an oblique line across the latter white ; pectus 

 and legs white and brown ; abdomen white suffused with bronze- 

 brown, the crests red-brown and white, the ventral surface white 

 irrorated with bronze-brown. Fore wing grey-white suffused with 

 golden bronze and irrorated with blackish ; subbasal line silvery- 

 white defined on each side by red-brown, from costa to vein 1, a 

 red-brown patch beyond it in submedian interspace with a slight 

 silver streak in the fold ; antemedial line silvery-white defined on 

 each side by red-brown, angled outwards below costa, incurved in 

 cell, then oblique, its outer edge angled outwards below submedian 

 fold ; orbicular represented by a slight silvery-white lunule in lower 

 part of cell, conjoined to an oblique brilliant silvery-white stigma 

 below the cell composed of two obliquely placed spots, the upper 

 rather V-shaped, with some brownish in centre ; reniform with its 

 upper part defined by slight black-brown marks, its lower part 

 with a curved silvery-white striga angled outwards at lower angle 

 of cell ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with greyish 



