490 JTOCTTJIDJE. 



and with silver at inner margin, bent outwards below costa, in- 

 curved at discal fold, then oblique and minutely waved, angled 

 inwards at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa 

 and a Avhite shade from costa to discal fold ; subterminal line dark 

 brown, excm-ved at vein 7 and middle and angled inwards below 

 vein 5 and at submedian fold, a black streak before it at discal fold 

 and bronze-broA^ir shades beyond it from costa to discal fold and at 

 middle, defined on outer side b}" a slight white line before tennen ; 

 a fine dark brown terminal line dilated into a small spot at middle ; 

 a fine white line at base of cilia. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 Avith golden brown, the termuial area darker ; cilia white with a 

 series of brown striae near base at the veins ; the underside white 

 tinged with red-brown, the costal area iri'orated with red-bro'vvn, 

 the terminal area suffused ^^it]l brown, a slight broAvn discoidal 

 lunule. 



Ab. 1. secundaria. Fore wing with the stigma forming a 

 bilobate mark. 



Sab. QrEEXSLAXD {Higlett), 1 $, Brisbane {Turner'), 2 $, 

 Moreton Bay {Diggles), 3 5 ; N. Australia, Alexandria {Stalker), 

 2 S ; W. ArsTEALiA, Sherlock E. {Clements), 1 6,1 $ , Cossack 

 {J. J. Walker), 2 6,1 $ , Swan E. {Bichardson), 1 $ ; N. S. 

 Wales, Sydney {Lambert, Say nor), 1 d , 4 $ , . Broken Hill 

 {Loiver), 1 5; Yictoeia, Gisborne {Lyell), 16; S. ArsTEALiA, 

 Adelaide {IVilson), 2 c? , 2 5 tvpe secundaria; Tasma>"^ia, 

 Hobart {A. J. Smith, J. J. Walker), 2 $ , Ulverstone {Lyell), 1 6 . 

 Exp. 34^0 miUim. 



8317. Phytometra calceolaris. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 23.) 



Plusia calceolaris, Wlk. xii. 915 (1857). 



6 . Head and thorax grey-brown ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 brown, the venti-al surface grey-broAvn. Fore wing pm-plish grey 

 mostly suffused with cupreous brown, the medial area deep chocolate- 

 browii below the cell and beyond inner half of the antemechal hne ; 

 subbasal hne slight, greyish, fi'om costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line slight, grey, hardly traceable to median nervure, then 

 inwardly oblique; an oblique silvery Y-shaped mark below the 

 cell, its tad. dilated into an elliptical knob ; reniBorm with shght 

 pale outhne, strongly constricted at middle, with black-brown 

 marks in its upper and lower extremities and its inner side defined 

 bv a silvery sti'iga below ; postmedial line very indistinct, pale 

 faintly defined on each side by brown, bent outwards below costa, 

 excm-ved to vein 5, then incurved to lower angle of cell and erect 

 to inner margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal hne slight and inciu'ved from costa to vein 7 where it is 

 met by an obhque dark chocolate-brown shade from apex, then 

 defined on inner side by choeolate-broAvn suffusion, excm-ved below 

 vein 7, bent inwards at vein 5 and sinuous to tornus ; a slight 

 sinuous pale line before tennen from apex to vein 4. Hind wing 



