PHYTOMETEA. 537 



terminal line defined on inner side by violaceous white from below 

 apex to vein 2. Hind wing whitish, tinged with cupreous brown, 

 the terminal area cupreous brown ; cilia white with a brown line 

 near base ; the underside white, the costal area tinged with rufous 

 and irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal striga, rather 

 diffused postmedial line excurved below costa, and subterminal 

 shade. 



Ab. 1. Tore wing with the stigma below the cell forming a 

 Y-mark. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the inner half of medial area and the 

 subterminal area deeper cupreous brown. 



Hab. Tibet ; Japan, Yokohama {Fryer), 2 $ ; W. Chusta, 

 Moupin {Kricheldorf), 1 5 , Chia-kou-ho (Fraft), 1 6 ; Kashmir, 

 Groorais Valley (Leech), 1 c? , Narkundar (Mc Arthur), 1 5 , 

 Kuijar (lIcArthur), 1 S ; Punjab (Some, Trimen), 1 c? , 1 $ , 

 Rawal Pindi, 1 S , Kasauli (Swinhoe, Barrow), 2$, Campbellpur 

 (Yerhury), 2 S, Dharms.ila (Socking), 3 c? , 3 5 , Wuzeerabad 

 (Searsay), 2 $ type, Manpuri, 1 S ; Sikkim, 1 <S ; Bengal, 

 Pusa (Lefroy), 1 6 . JSxjJ. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Green ; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines slight, white ; 

 tubercles white. 



8369. Pliytometrasclialisema,n.sp. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 23.) 



5 . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with some grey- white, 

 the tegultB wdth slight dark line at middle and whitish tips, the 

 patagia with oblique whitish line near base ; abdomen grey suffused 

 with reddish brown. Fore wing greyish strongly suffused with 

 reddish brown ; minute subbasal black points above and below the 

 cell; antemedial line very indistinct, pale, excmwed below costa, 

 then oblique and sinuous ; a very oblique silvery stigma below the 

 cell formed by a U-shaped mark conjoined to an elongate elliptical 

 spot ; reniform with slight silvery outline, strongly constricted at 

 middle and with black marks in its extremities and beyond its 

 middle ; postmedial line double, brown filled in with greyish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous, angled 

 outwards below vein 2, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line slight, silvery defined on inner side by dark brown 

 suffusion, excm-ved below vein 7 and slightly angled outwards below 

 veins 4 and 3 ; a dark brown terminal line with a narrow greyish 

 band before it from apex to vein 2 defined on inner side by dark 

 brown suffusion. Hind wing whitish suffused with cupreous red- 

 brown especially on terminal area ; the underside vdth diffused 

 subterminal shade. 



Sah. W. China, Huang-mu-chang (Fraff), 1 $ type. LJa:p. 

 40 millim. 



