PHYTOMETEA. 515 



8340. Phytometra argyrosigna. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 7.) 



Pktsia argyrosigna, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 149 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 571. 



Head and thorax deep rufous sliglitly mixed with greyish, the 

 tegulse f ulvoiis red at base ; fore tarsi whitish, the mid and hind 

 spars and tarsi brown ringed with white; abdomen fulvous red, the 

 crests and anal tuft deep rufous. Fore wing deep rufous suffused in 

 parts with metallic gold especially on terminal area, the medial area 

 with a deeper rufous patch below the cell ; subbasal line represented 

 by a slight curved fulvous red striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 very slight, silvery with a greyish shade before it, angled outwards 

 below costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, oblique below the cell 

 and slightly excurved above vein 1 ; orbicvilar with very faint pale 

 outline, very narrow and oblique ; an oblique rather S-shaped 

 brilliant silvery white stigma below the cell, produced inwards to a 

 point on median nervure and its tail somewhat dilated ; reniform 

 with ver}'^ slight silvery outline, very narrow and slightly dilated at 

 lower extremity, placed on a deep rufous patch and filled in vdth 

 deep rufous ; postmedial line double, deep rufous, slightly filled in 

 with silvery-white at inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and minutely waved, angled outwards at vein 2 ; sub- 

 terminal line red-brown, excurved below veins 7, 4, 3, a deep rufous 

 shade before it between veins 7 and 3 and beyond it from apex to 

 vein 2, leaving the termen paler except at apex. Hind wing rufous 

 with a cupreous gloss, the terminal area darker ; the underside with 

 the costal area suffused with fiery red, diffused brownish postmedial 

 and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma not angled inwards on median 

 nervure. 



Hal. Kashmir, Kiris {Leech), 1 $, Eala (McArfhur), 1 c? , 



1 2 ; Punjab, Kulu, Dugi Pass {Thomjjson), 1 c? , 1 $ , Dalhousie, 



2 (5 type. Exp. 34-48 millim. 



8341. Phytometra ornatissima. 



Plusia chaJsi/fis, Koll. Hiigel's Xasehmir, iv. p. 482 (nee Esp.). 



Plusia ornatissima, Wlk. xv. 1786 (1858); Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 572; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 2.S8. 

 Plusia locuples, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 85, pi. 9. f. 3 (1881). 



Head and thorax red- brown slightly mixed with greyish; 1st 

 joint of palpi, extremity of 2nd joint, vertex of head, and patches 

 on tegulse fiery red; fore coxae with small patches of fiery red; 

 abdomen red-brown with a greyish tinge, the crests red-brown 

 tipped with grey. Fore wing red-brown mixed with some greyish, 

 and with dark brown striae, the basal costal area, the inner area 

 beyond the antemedial line, and the terminal area suffused with 

 cupreous gold ; a curved silvery subbasal striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line doiible, red-brown, filled in with silver except in cell, 



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