PHYTOMETEA. 491 



grey suffused with brown, the terminal area darker ; cilia brownish 

 grey ; the underside greyish brown with traces of a diffused post- 

 medial shade. 



2 . Fore wing with small V-shaped silvery mark below the cell 

 with elliptical spot beyond Its lower exti-emlty. 



Hab. Jamaica {Kaye), 1 $ ; Haiti {Tweedie), 1 6 type 

 Exp. 34-38 mllllm. 



8318. Phytometra signata. (Plate CCXXXYII. fig. 24.) 



Nociua signata, Fabr. Eiit. Syst. iii. 2, p. 81 (1792) ; Moore, Lep. Cej^l. iii. 



p. 71, pi. 151. f. 4 ; Hmpsu. Moths Ind. ii. p, 668. 

 Ptusia dimiiiuta, Wlk. xxxiii. 837 (1865). 



Head and thorax pale red- brown ; basal joint of antennae with a 

 white ring ; tegvilse at tips and an obllcjue line across patagla 

 whitish; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 rufous, the crests red-brown. Fore wing red-broAvii with a greyish 

 tinge and glossed with golden cupreous ; subbasal line silvery- 

 whitish defined on inner side by brown, ending at submedlan fold ; 

 a black striga before it below the cell and two black points with a 

 minute silvery streak between them on outer side ; antemedlal line 

 silvery, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then oblique 

 and sinuoiis; an oblique silvery U-shaped stigma below the cell 

 with a round spot beyond its lower extremity ; renlf orm indistinctly 

 defined b}^ silver at sides, strongly constricted at middle and with 

 fom- blackish points in its extremities ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with silvery-whitish, excurved to vein 5, then in- 

 curved and again excm-ved below submedlan fold, some Avhitlsh 

 points beyond it on costa ; subtermlnal line very indistinct, brown, 

 waved, angled outwards at vein 7 and Inwards at dlscal fold ; some 

 whitish on termen from apex to vein 2 and a fine white line at base 

 of cilia. Hind vdng whitish suffused with cupreous brown ; cilia 

 white with a brown line through them ; the underside white 

 slightly Irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoldal striga with 

 bar above it from costa, diffused brown postmedial and subtermlnal 

 lines with brown suffusion between them. 



JELah. SiEEEA Leone {Foxcroft), 1 $ tj^e diminiita; Natal, 

 Dm-ban {Leigli), 1 6 ; Mauritius (Manders), 1 $ ; Cextk. 

 China, Ichang {Holson), 1 $ ; Madeas, Grooty {Campbell^, 1 $ , 

 Calicut {Cardew), 1 $; Cetlon, 2 c? ;' Buema, Mandalay {Bing- 

 ham), 1 S ; Java {Horsfield), 4 J , 2 $ ; Fiji (MatJiew), 1 $ . 

 UxjJ. 30-34 millmi. 



8319. Phytometra rubida. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 25.) 



AutograpJia riihidus, Ottolengui, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 67, pi. vi. f. 4 

 (1902); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 200. 



2 . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with whitish, the tips 

 of tegulfe and patagla and an oblique line across the latter whitish ; 

 abdomen reddish brown mixed with grej', the crests rufous and 



