544 NOCTUTDJi;. 



8376. Phytometra dudgeoni, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 29.) 



d . Head and thorax rufous mixed with ochreous whitish, the 

 tegulse and patagia grey at tips ; ahdomen ochreous tinged with 

 rufous, the crests chocolate-brown at tips. Fore wing bright 

 rufous suflhised with metallic gold except a patch on medial area 

 below the cell and the terminal area except towards tornus ; sub- 

 basal line represented by an obliquely curved rufous striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double, rufous, excurved below 

 costa and cell and somewhat oblique ; orbicular with very slight 

 greyish outline, oblique and somewhat quadrate ; a small oblique 

 brilliant silver Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail very short; 

 reniform with hardly traceable pale outline, very small and strongly 

 constricted at middle ; postmedial line indistinct, dotible, rufous, 

 incurved below vein 4 to below end of cell, then oblique ; subter- 

 minal line hardly traceable, rufous, excurved below vein 7 and 

 slightly below veins 4 and 3. Hind wing ochreous tinged with 

 cupreous red-brown ; a faint oblique postmedial line and subter- 

 minal shade ; the underside slightly irrorated with red-brown and 

 with slight discoidal spot. 



Sab. Bhutan (Dudgeon), 1 c? type. Exj). 44 millim. 



* 8377. Phytometra limata. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 30.) 



riusia limata, Si^haus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 50 (1911). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey-brown, the tegulce 

 slightly tinged with rufous and tipped with grey. Fore wing 

 purplish grey irrorated with brown, the inner half of medial area 

 brown with a cupreous gloss ; a diffused oblique cupreous brown 

 subterminal shade ; subbasal line brown defined on outer side by 

 whitish, oblique, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line 

 brown defined on outer side by whitish, oblique, slightly curved 

 inwards to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform with whitish 

 annuli defined by brown, the former elliptical, the latter op)en above 

 and below, its outer edge indented ; the stigma below the cell 

 silvery-white, Y-shaped filled in with grey, small and with its tail 

 slightly lobed ; postmedial line brown defined on inner side by 

 white, oblique, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 grey defined on inner side by brown, excurved below vein 7, then 

 oblique ; a brown line slightly defined on outer side by white before 

 termen from costa to below vein 4 ; a fine black terminal line. 

 Hind wing grey suffused with brown ; cilia whitish ; the underside 

 white tinged and irrorated with brown, a diffused curved brown 

 postmedial line and faint subterminal shade. 



Hab. Costa Eica, Juan Vinas (Schaus), type f c? in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Uxp. 44 millim. 



