526 KOCTUID.T?. 



slightly waved to tornus ; the apex with some chocolate-brown 

 suffusion and two minute black spots -defined on inner side by 

 silvery-white on termen ; cilia with a series of black points at base 

 and chequered with black-brown at veins 4, 3, 2 and tornus. Hind 

 wing dark cupreous brown with some whitish on basal half ; cilia 

 whitish with a brown line near base and chequered with brown at 

 apex and middle ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown, a brown discoidal striga and 

 diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Gabook, Ogove R., type f mapongua in Coll. Holland ; 

 Br. E. Africa, Mombasa {d.e la Garde), 1 $ ; Uganda, 

 Ruwenzori {Wollaston), 1 $ ; Natal, Karkloof {3Iars]ia.U), 

 1 $ ; Cape Colony, Kokstad (3£/'s. PringJe), 1 $ , Knysna, type 

 t 2 in Coll. Rothschild. Exj). 30-32 millim. 



8356. Phytometra dives. 



Pluda dices, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1844, iii. p. 59(i & 1857, i. p. 12.5 ; Ilerr.- 

 Schaff. Eur. Schu:ett., Noct. f. 511 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with some greyish ; tegulse 

 with a grey line at middle and grey tips ; patagia with an oblique 

 grey line at middle ; pectus and legs brownish white, the tibiaB and 

 tarsi tinged with rufous ; abdomen dorsally pale rufous with some 

 yellow at base, the crests deep rufous, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing pink almost entirely suffused with rufous except on 

 costal and terminal areas ; a curved dark subbasal striga from costa 

 defined on outer side by silvery- gold, and an oblique striga from 

 median nervure defined on inner side by silvery-gold ; antemedial 

 line double, dark, angled outwards and filled in with silvery-gold 

 below costa, angled inwards on median nervure, then oblique 

 sinuoiis and filled in with silvery-gold and produced to a dentate 

 mark above vein 1; orbicular a smalL round silvery-gold spot in 

 lower part of cell, conjoined to a V-shaped stigma below the cell 

 filled in with silvery-gold and with a round silvery-gold sj)ot well 

 beyond its lower extremity ; renif orm with its lower part defined by 

 an oblique silvery-gold striga on inner side and a >-shaped mark 

 on outer, otherwise undefined ; an oblique brown striga from middle 

 of costa and slight oblique line from vein 4 Avell beyond the cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line brown, double towards costa and 

 below vein 4 and filled in with silvery-gold towards inner margin, 

 bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 7, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented 

 by wedge-shaped black marks between veins 8 and 5 and an oblique 

 line from vein 4 to inner margin, some rufous beyond it towards 

 apex and at middle ; a black-brown terminal line ; cilia pink at 

 base, with pale line at middle and rufous tips. Hind wing orange- 

 yellow, some brown at base ; a black-brown terminal band, its 

 inner edge indented at submedian fold ; cilia orange-j^ellow with a 

 red-brown line at base. Underside of fore wing orange-yellow 

 suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown except on costal and 



