PHTTOMETEA. 493 



black marks defined by silvery-white below veins 4 and 3 ; a 

 terminal series of slight blackish Kmules defined on inner side by 

 an oehreous line from costa to vein 2 with a chocolate-brown shade 

 before it expanding into a triangular patch at middle, and a brown 

 spot above tornus ; cilia with a slight waved red-brown line near 

 base. Hind wing oehreous suffused with red-brown especially on 

 terminal area ; cilia whitish with some red-brown striae near base ; 

 the underside oehreous irrorated with red-brown, a rather diffused 

 postmedial line with red-brown band beyond it except towards 

 costa. 



Hah. Spaik, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; ? Cohsica ; Sicily ; 

 ? CfiETE ; Syria. Exp. 30-34 millim. 



Larva. Kirby. Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 270; Hffm. Raup. p. 134. 



Green, with pale and dark dorsal and subdorsal lines and ill- 

 defined pale lateral stripe. Food-plant, Mentha. 1-2. 



8321. Phytometra phocina, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 26.) 



$ . Head and thorax grey-brown ; tegulse and patagia with grey 

 tips ; metathoracic crest with some reddish yellow above and grey 

 tips ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore mng purplish grey-brown, the 

 medial area below the cell and the terminal area deep brown with a 

 golden bronze gloss ; subbasal line brown defined on outer side by 

 silvery-grey, sintious, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line brown 

 defined on outer side by silvery-grey, oblique to median nervure, 

 then inwardly oblique ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by 

 grey, the former elliptical, the latter somewhat constricted at 

 middle ; an oblique V-shaped stigma defined by silvery-grey below 

 the cell, slightly angled inwards below and its apex bent outwards 

 to the postmedial line ; postmedial line double, brown filled in with 

 silvery-grey, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly 

 waved to the submedian fold where it is angled inwards, then 

 erect ; subterminal line dark brown defined on outer side by silvery- 

 grey, excui'ved below vein 7, then erect to tornus ; a faint waved 

 whitish line before termen. Hind wing brown, the interspaces of 

 basal half whitish ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a brownish discoidal 

 striga, rather diffused postmedial line incurved below vein 3, and 

 subterminal shade. 



Hah. Beazil, Rio Janeiro {Wilson), 1 $ type. Exp. 38 

 milhm. 



8322. Phytometra abrota. 



Plusia ahroia, Bruce, Biol, Centr.-Am..Het. i. p. 333, pi. 30. f. 19 (1889); 

 Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. p. 67, pi. ix. f. 4 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. 

 N. Am. p. 200. 



Head and thorax grey-brown ; tegulag and patagia with the tips 

 grey ; metathoracic crest with some fulvous yellow above and grey 

 tips ; abdomen grey-brown, the lateral and genital tufts reddish 

 vellow. Fore wing purplish grey-brown, the medial area below the 



