PHYTOMETRA. 521 



outwards below costa and slightly incurved below vein 5, some 

 w^hitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line silvery defined 

 on inner side by red-brown, slightly excurved below costa, then 

 oblique ; a series of minute silvery points just before termen ; a 

 chocolate -brown mark at apex and a pair of chocolate-brow^n spots 

 defined on outer side by silvery- white above and below vein 4 ; a 

 fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with cupreous brown ; cilia white with a 

 brown line near base ; the vmderside white irrorated with brown, 

 indistinct sinuous brown postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Transvaal, White R. {CooJce), 1 6; Natal, Mooi R., 

 1 6 type. Exp. 30-32 millim. 



8350. Phytometra dalei. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 14.) 

 Plusia dalci, Woll. A. M. N. H. (.5) iii. p. 232 (1879). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey- white, the tegulse 

 and patagia with whitish tips and the latter with whitish line 

 across them ; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous suffused with rufous, 

 the last with the crests deep rufous. Fore wing pale flesh-colour 

 irrorated with red-brown and with a cupreous golden gloss, the 

 medial area with a deep red-brown patch below the cell ; subbasal 

 line silvery defined on each side by red-brown and with red-brown 

 patches before and beyond it below the cell, sinuous, from costa to 

 vein 1 ; antemedial line silvery defined on each side by red-brown, 

 angled outwards below costa, strongly bent inwards in cell, then 

 oblique and slightly angled outwards below submedian fold ; 

 orbicular with faint pale annulus, silvery below, narrow, oblique ; an 

 oblique U-shaped silvery stigma below the cell with a spot beyond 

 its lower extremity ; reniform defined by dark brown and with 

 oblique pale line on inner edge and silvery striga at lower extremity, 

 constricted at middle ; postmedial line double, dark-bi-own, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous, angled inwards 

 at submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line dark brown with golden brown shades before it from 

 costa to vein 4 and towards inner margin, angled outwards at veins 

 7, 6, 1 and inwards at veins 5 and 2 ; a slight Avaved dark terminal 

 line defined on inner side by whitish with golden brown shades 

 before it towards apex and at middle ; cilia with small dark spots 

 at base at the veins and more distinct spot at middle. Hind wing 

 cupreous red-brown ; cilia white with a brown line near base with 

 dark striae at the veins ; the underside whitish tinged with red- 

 brown, a rather diffused sinuous postmedial line and subterminal 

 shade. 



Hah. Sx. Helena (Wollaston), 4 c? , 1 $ type. Usep. 40-44 

 millim. 



