546 ISOCTVIDJE. 



sinuous below the cell ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in 

 with white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly 

 sinuous ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by rather 

 diffused dark brown, waved, excmwed below vein 7 and at middle 

 and strongly angled inwards at discal and submedian folds, a reddish 

 brown shade beyond it ; a terminal series of dark strise defined on 

 inner side by white except towards apex and tornus ; cilia chequered 

 white and red-brown. Hind wing whitish suffused with red -brown 

 with a golden gloss ; cilia white vdth a red-brown line through 

 them; the underside white irrorated with pale brown, difiiused 

 oblique postmedial and subterminal lines. 



JIab. W. Turkestan", Turcomania, Askhabad, 1 d" , 1 $ . ^xj)., 

 S 30, $ 32miUim. 



8380. Phytometra pasiphaeia. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 31.) 



Plusia pasipheeia, Grote, Bull. Buif. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 146, pi. iv. f. 1 

 (1873) ; Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. x. pi. ix. f. 14 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 256. 



Head and thorax yelloAvish suffused with i-ufous, the tegulae at 

 tips and patagia above edged with white ; the metathoracic crest 

 tipped with white ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with rufous ; 

 abdomen yellowish tinged with rufous, the crests iTifous and white 

 at tips. Fore wing whitish tinged and irrorated with red-brown, 

 the medial area bright rafous below the cell, the terminal area 

 suffused with rufous with a golden gloss ; subbasal line represented 

 by a cuj-ved whitish striga from costa ; antemedial line silvery- 

 white, angled outwards below costa, incurved in cell, inwardly 

 oblique below the cell ; orbictilar defined by whitish, narrow, oblique 

 elliptical ; an oblique silvery-wliite Y-shaped stigma below the cell, 

 its arms separating widely, its tail narrow ; reniform slightly 

 defiuued by whitish, its outer edge constricted at middle ; postmedial 

 line silvery-white slightly defined on outer side by red-brown with 

 a whitish shade beyond it, bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and almost straight, some whitish points beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, red-brown, excurved below veins 7, 4 and 3 

 and bent inwards .at vein 2 , a narrow whitish band before the 

 slight lunulate brown terniinal line, the whitish forming a tri- 

 angular patch below vein 2. Hind wing yellowish white tinged 

 with rufous, the terminal area suffused with red-brown with a 

 cupreous gloss ; cilia white with a slight red-brown line through 

 them ; the underside yellow tinged with rufous es^^ecially on 

 terminal area. 



Sah. "tl.S.A., California, 2 c? tj^pe {Walsingliam), 1 5. Exjj. 

 36 millim. 



*8381. Phytometra sansoni. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 32.) 

 AutograpJia sansoni, W. Dod, Cau. Ent. xlii. p. 349 (191U). 



(5 . Head and thorax deep red-brown mixed with dark brown and 

 purplish grey ; spurs and tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 



