PHTTOMETRA. 545 



8378. Ph3rtometra Jessica. 



Flusia Jessica, Biitl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 201 (1878); id. 111. Hefc. B.M. 



iii. p. 22, pi. 46. f. 6; Hinpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 568. 

 Plusia Serena, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv, p. 3G8 (1879). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen pale red-brown, the crests deep red-brown. Fore 

 wing purplish grey suffiused with red-brown and irrorated with 

 blackish, the medial area with a patch of deep chocolate-brown 

 below the cell ; subbasal line represented by silvery strias from costa 

 and cell defined on each side by black below the costa and on lower 

 side below the cell ; antemedial line silvery defined on each side by 

 chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, then 

 oblique and sinuous, a black mark before it at inner margin ; 

 orbicular small, narrow and oblique, chocolate-brown with silvery 

 outline ; an oblique silver Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail 

 somewhat dilated at extremity ; renif orm with slight silvery out- 

 line, strongly constricted at middle and with slight black marks in 

 its four extremities ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled 

 in with silvery, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 minutely waved, slightly below siibmedian fold, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black-brown defined on inner 

 side by chocolate-brown suffusion, excurved below veins 7, 4, 3 ; a 

 waved chocolate-brown shade beyond it from apex to vein 2 ; a 

 terminal series of slight blackish luniiles. Hind wing ochreous 

 suffused with cupreous red-brown, the terminal area rather darker ; 

 traces of a postmedial line between veins 5 and 2 ; cilia with a fine 

 pale line at base ; the underside rather paler with indistinct 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Japan, Tokio {Maries), 1 $ , Yokohama (J'onas, Pri/er), 

 2 c? , 4 $ , type and type serena ; PuivrjAB, Simla (Harford), 1 c? , 

 1 5 , Dalhousie {Harford), 1 $ ; Assam {Badgley), 1 S • Exp. 

 30-34 millim. 



8379. Phytometra bella. 



P7A(,sia hella, Christ. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xlviii. p. 164 (1887) ; id. Rom. Mem, 

 V. p. 36, pi. 2. f. 7 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239. 



Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown ; abdomen white 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing white suffused in parts with pale 

 red-brown and slightly irrorated with brown, the medial area with 

 a pale red-brown patch below the cell ; subbasal line with double 

 white striae from costa filled in with black-brown and white striga 

 from cell defined on inner side by black-brown ; antemedial line 

 white defined on each side by red-brown, angled outwards below 

 costa, then bent inwards, obliquely curved below the cell and angled 

 outwards below submedian fold ; orbictdar with white annulus, 

 oblique elliptical; an oblique silvery- white Y-shaped stigma below 

 the cell, its tail dilated at extremity ; reniform with white annulus, 

 its centre defined by dark brown, strongly constricted at middle ; 

 an indistinct diffused brown medial line, rather oblique and slightly 



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