530 IS'OCTUIDiE. ■ 



8361. Phytometra labrosa. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 20.) 



Flnsia labrosa, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 207 ; Ottolengui, 

 J. N.Y. Enl.. Soc. x. pi. vii. f. 14; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 251. 



2 . Head and thorax bright red-brown, the tegiilse and thoracic 

 crest tipped with grey ; antennae whitish ringed with brown ; pectus 

 and legs pale red-brown, the tibiae at extremities and tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown, the crests 

 red-brown tipped with grey. Fore wing purple-grey tinged with 

 red-brown, the medial area below the cell deep red-brown ; subbasal 

 line silveiy-white defined on each side by red-brown, sinuous, 

 from costa to submedian fold, a red-brown shade beyond it ; ante- 

 medial line silverji-- white defined on each side by red-brown, angled 

 outwards below costa, bent inwards in cell, then oblique and ex- 

 curved above vein 1 ; orbicular a small red-brown spot ; an oblique 

 silvery Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail bent outwards and 

 dilated at extremity ; reniform with slight silvery- white annulus, 

 constricted at middle where there is a brown spot beyond it, its 

 loAver part filled in with brown ; postmedial line silvery-white 

 defined by red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 waved, obsolescent beyond the cell, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line silvery-white defined on inner side by deep 

 red-brown suffusion, angled outwards at vein 7 and below veins 4 

 and S and inwards at discal fold and vein 2, a red-brown shade 

 beyond it at apex and a trifid shade at middle ; cilia chequered 

 jDurple-grey and brown with a fine white line at base. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused vidth red-brown, the terminal area red-brown ; 

 cilia chequered white and brown ; the underside ochreous white, 

 the costal and terminal areas suffused with brown, a slight brown 

 discoidal striga. 



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8362. Phytometra bimaculata. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 21.) 



riusia Umaculata, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. iii. p. 102 (1832); 



Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Eut. Soc. s. pi. vii. f. 5; Smith, Cat. Noot. N. Am. 



p. 249. 

 Plusia ii-hrevis, Giien. Noct. ii. p. 341 (1852). 



Head rufous mixed with some broAvn ; tegulse rufous at base, 

 red-brown at tips ; thorax red-brown with the crest rufous in 

 front ; antennae whitish tinged with rufous and ringed Avith black 

 towards base ; palpi with the 3rd joint brown ; pectus and legs 

 red-brown, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown 

 with a reddish tinge, the crests red-brown mixed with blackish, the 

 ventral surface rufous. Fore wing pale grejash rufous slightly 

 irrorated and striated with black, the medial area mth a patch of 

 deep rufous below the cell, the medial part of subterminal area 

 with a golden gloss ; a golden subbasal striga from costa defined 

 on each side by brown and a minute black spot below the cell ; 

 antemedial line golden defined on each side bv black-brown, angled 



