PHTTOMETRA. 517 



8343. Phytometra pyropia. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 9.) 



Plusia pyropia, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 367 (1879); Hiiipsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 57"2. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some grey, the vertex of 

 head and tegulse fiery red, the tips of tegulse and patagia grey ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen pale rufous, the last with the crests deep 

 rufous. Fore wing rufous tinged with grey and slightly striated 

 with broAvn, the inner half of medial area and the postmedial area 

 except towards tornus suffused with brilliant cupreous gold ; sub- 

 basal line slight, silvery defined on inner side by brown, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line silver, angled outwards below 

 costa and inwards in cell, bent outwards at median nervm-e, then 

 oblique ; a brilliant silver stigma below the cell, consisting of an 

 oblique elliptical spot with streak on median nervure running in- 

 wards to the antemedial line and another elliptical spot beyond its 

 lower extremity ; reniform very obscurely defined by brown ; post- 

 medial line brown with silver on it from vein 2 to inner margin, 

 slightly excurved below costa, then oblique and sinuous below 

 vein 2 ; subterminal line red-brown, excurved below vein 7 and 

 angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine brown terminal line. 

 Hind wing pale reddish brown, the terminal half rather darker ; 

 cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated Avith brown, a small brown discoidal spot and diffused 

 oblique postmedial line. 



Hah. Japan, Oiwake {Fryer), 1 $, Yokohama {Pryer), 1 S, 

 1 $ type ; Coeea, Gensan (Ito), 1 d ; Kashmir, liajaori (Leech), 

 1 c?; Punjab, Dharmsala {Hocking), 2 J, 3 §. JSxp. 32-34 

 millim. 



8344. Phytometra rutilifrons. 



Plusia rutilifrons, Wlk. xv. 1785 (1858). 



Plusia a^^genteo-gultata, Poiij. Bull. Soc. Bnt. Fr. (6) vii. p. Ixriii (1887). 

 Plusia adscripfa. Stand. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 261 ; id. Eoiii. Mem. vi. 

 p. 546, pi. 10. f. 7 ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. 



Head and thorax grey tinged with red-brown, the vertex of head 

 and base of tegulse fiery red, the metathoracic crest red-brown 

 tipped with grey ; abdomen grey-brown, the crests red-brown. Fore 

 wing glossy grey-brown irrorated with a few black scales, the inner 

 half of medial area and middle of terminal area bi'ight red-brown 

 with a golden gloss ; subbasal line silvery-whitish slightly defined 

 on each side by red-brown, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line silvery- white slightly defined on each side by red-brown, 

 excurved below costa, incurved in cell, bent outwards at median 

 nervm*e, then oblique and sinuous ; a silvery stigma below the cell 

 consisting of a small oblique U-shaped mark with round spot beyond 

 its extremity, both defined by blackish ; reniform with slight grey 

 annulus, the upper and lower parts of centre defined by black, its 

 inner edge oblique and straight, its outer constricted at middle ; 



