524 KOCTUiD^. 



brown and slightly striated with dark brown, the medial area deep 

 red-brown below the cell with some fulvous yellow in submedian 

 interspace before the postmedial line ; subbasal line silvery-whitish 

 defined on each side by red-brown, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line silvery-whitish defined on each side by red-brown, 

 indistinct to median nervure, angled outwards below costa, strongly 

 bent inwards in cell, oblique and sinuous below the cell ; orbicular 

 with pale annulus, oblique elliptical ; an oblique silvery- white 

 Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail curved and rather slender ; 

 reniform with slight silvery annulus, slightly angled inwards at 

 m.edian nervure and its outer edge excised at middle, slight black 

 marks in its extremities and beyond it at middle ; a slight brown 

 medial shade oblique to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with ochreous and with 

 silvery-whitish below vein 2, obsolescent and bent outwards below 

 costa, then obliquely curved to below vein 3, then slightly sinuous ; 

 subterminal line dai'k brown defined on inner side by red-brown 

 sufftision, exciirved below vein 7 and angled outwards below veins 4 

 and 3 ; a fine dark brown terminal line defined on inner side by a 

 greyish line ; a tine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with rufous, the terminal area rather darker ; cilia whitish 

 with a red-brown line through them ; the underside ochreous 

 in-orated vnth rufous and with faint diffused postmedial and 

 subterminal lines. 



Hah. Kashmir, Deosai Plains {Leech), 1 S type. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



8354. Phytometra precationis. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Plusia precatioiiis, Guen. IVoct. ii. p. 344(1862); Ottolengui, J. N.Y 

 Ent. Soc. X. pi. ix. f. 6 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. JSf. Am. p. 251. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with red-brown and grey, the 

 teguliB and patagia tipped with grey and the latter with an oblique 

 grey line across them ; antennae ringed black and white towards 

 base ; the spurs and tarsi fuscous ringed with whitish ; abdomen pale 

 rufous, the crests deep rufous at tips. Fore wing deep rufous 

 mixed with greyish and slightly irrorated with black, the inner half 

 of medial area and the terminal area with a golden cupreous gloss ; 

 subbasal line silvery defined on inner side by deep rufous, sinuous, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line silvery defined on each side 

 by deep rufous, angled outwards below costa, strongly incurved in 

 cell, then oblique and sinuous ; orbicular represented by a slight 

 silver lunule above median nervure ; an oblique V-shaped silver 

 stigma below the cell with elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ; 

 reniform rufous with faint silvery outline, strongly constricted at 

 middle ; a faint oblique browi*! medial shade from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line double, rufous tilled in with greyish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, angled 

 inwards at vein 2, then filled in with silver; subterminal line 



