PHYTOMETEA.. 513 



Larva. French, Papilio, ii. p. 113. 



Green ; dorsal line dark green ; subdorsal and two lateral lines 

 white connected by spurs with the dorsal line ; stigmatal line faint 

 greenish white with obscure black spots above it on somites 4 to 8, 

 sometimes wanting ; stigmata green defined by black ; head green 

 with black lateral stripes connected in front ; antenna3 black ; the 

 body covered with short pale brown hair at sides, white on dorsum. 



i^gg nearly globular, the base somewhat flattened, the apex 

 bluntly conical ; ridged wdth quadrate punctures between them each 

 with a small elevation in centre ; white with a faint creamy tinge. 



8338. Phytometra rhopalosema, n. sp. 

 (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 6.) 



Plusia gutta, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 671 (part.). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the tegulte, patagia, 

 and metathoracic crests white at tips, the patagia with oblique 

 white line at middle ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the 

 crests dark brown, grey at tips. Fore wing purplish grey suffused 

 in parts with red-brown with a cupreous gloss and irrorated with 

 dark brown, the medial area deep red-brown below the cell with 

 some fulvous yellow before the postmedial line ; subbasal line 

 silvery- white defined on each side by red-brown, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line silvery- white defined on each side by 

 red-brown, angled outwards below costa, bent inwards in cell, then 

 oblique ; an oblique brilliant silvery bilobate stigma below the cell, 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; reniform with faint greyish 

 ou.tline, its outer edge strongly constricted at middle and with 

 oblique silvery streak above its lower extremity ; a faint dark 

 medial line, oblique to beyond lower angle of cell, then inwardly 

 oblique ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with grey and 

 vidth silver towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 4, then excurved and slightly sinuous, an oblique 

 whitish shade beyond it from costa to vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 dark brown, excurved below vein 7 and angled inwards at discal 

 fold, crossed by an oblique cupreous brown shade from apex to 

 vein 4, some cupreous brown beyond it at middle ; a fine dark 

 terminal line defined on inner side by a whitish line from below 

 apex to below vein 3 ; cilia with a slight cupreous brown spot at 

 middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous brown, the 

 terminal area darker ; cilia white with a red-brown line near base ; 

 the undereide white irrorated with brown, an oblique postmedial 

 line and subterminal shade. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Jonas), 1 $, Oiwake {Fryer), 1 c? ; 

 CoEEA, G-ensan {Leech, Lto), 1 J , 1 $ ; Ceis'te. China, Shanghai, 

 1 c? , Chusan Is. (J. J. Walker), 3 $ , Chekiang {Fryer), 2 $ , 

 Kiukiang {Pratt), 1 c? ; W. China, Chang-yang {Pratt), 2 9 , 

 Ta-chien-lu {Pratt), 1 5; Punjab, Dharmsila {Hocking), 4: 5; 

 Assam {Badgley), 1 J ; Madeas, Nilgiris {IIamj)son), 1 J type. 

 Exp. 36-40 inillim. 



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