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with some silveiy-whitish, excurved below costa, then obhque and 

 minutely waved to submedian fold, then exemwed, some whitish 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blackish with brown 

 shades before it between veins 7 and 4 and beyond it below costa 

 and at middle, angled outwards at veins 7, 6 and below veins 4 

 and 3 ; a fine waved black terminal line with a series of slight 

 silvery striae defined on inner side by brown before it except towards 

 tornus. Hind wing brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces 

 of basal half whitish ; cilia brownish white ; the underside white, 

 the veins and postmedial area suffused with brown, the costal and 

 terminal areas greyish irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., (jeoi-gia, 1 J , 2 2 type incligna, Missouri, Texas ; 

 Mexico, Jalapa {Trujillo), 3 c?, 1 $, Tabasco, Teapa {H. II. 

 Smith), 1 9 ; Panama, Chiriqui (Okamjjion), 1 5, Grodman- 

 Salvin Coll. ; Cuba ; W. Colombia, Jiminez, 1 5 ; Venezuela 

 {Difson), 1 $ type parallela ; Beazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 $ , Tijuca 

 {Wagner), 1 $ . Exp. 36-42 millim. 



8324. Phytometra cebeae. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 28.) 



riusia kebccB, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906). 



S ■ Head and thorax reddish brown largely mixed with grey ; 

 tegulse slightly tijjped with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with 

 rufous, the crests at base darker. Pore wing grey with a silvery 

 gloss and dark brown irroration, a triangular patch on costal half 

 of medial area and the apical half of terminal area rather darker ; 

 subbasal line represented by two slight striae from costa filled in 

 with grey ; antemedial line slight, double filled in with grey, angled 

 outwards below costa, then inwardly oblique ; orbicular a faint pale 

 very oblique V-shaped mark ; reniform defined on inner side by a 

 faint pale bar, hardly defined on outer ; the stigma below the cell 

 consisting of an oblique silvery-white striga, rather dilated on 

 inner side below and slightly defined by blackish ; postmedial line 

 slight, double filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely excmwed to submedian fold and bent outwards to inner 

 margin ; subterminal line slightly defined by golden brown on inner 

 side, minutely waved, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; cilia 

 grey mixed with brown, a fine brown line near base. Hind wing 

 whitish, the veins and terminal half siiffused with brown with a 

 silvery gloss ; cilia white with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside whitish suffused and irrorated with red-brown, an indis- 

 tinct diffused brown postmedial band and faint subterminal band on 

 inner half. 



5 . Abdomen grey ; fore wing without the white stigma below 

 the cell. 



Hub. Dutch N. Guinea, Fak-fak {Pratt), 2 S ,1 2 ; Br. N. 

 G-uiNEA, Mt. Kebea {Pratt), type f J , ? in Coll. Bethune-Baker, 

 Aroa R. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



