54S TSrOCTUID.TR. 



creamy- wliltefollowe I by rat'ous, the creamy- white forming a patch 

 in sub median interspace, the Kne excm-ved below costa aiid crenu- 

 late below vein 4 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia 

 with a waved dark line near base, the tips chequered brown and 

 whitish. Hind wing orange, the tenninal area black-brown ; cilia 

 orange with a rather maculate black-brown line through them. 

 Underside of fore wing brown with some orange in, below, and 

 beyond the cell ; hind wing with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stiaiiia below the cell filled in with 

 white and its whole outer edge confluent with the spot. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the orbicular also filled in with white. 



Eiah. TuAifsvAAL, Pretoria (Distant), 1 c? , Johannesburg 

 (Oret/oe), 1 c? , 1 ? ; Natal, Newcastle, 1 d' , Northdene, 1 6 ; 

 Basutolaistd, Maseru (GrawsJiaf), 1 cJ ; Oratstge R. CoLO"N^r, 

 Bloemfontein (Uc/cerslej/), 1 5 ; Cape Colony, Transkei (Miss 

 F. Barrett^, 1 cT , 9 ?' ; Baluchistan, Quetta (Nurse), 1 ?. 

 Exjj. 34-40 millim. 



8383. Phytomstra ssmivitta. 



Vlusia semivitca, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 63, pi. 6. f. 13. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen gi'ey mixed with red-brown, the 

 tegmlEe red-brown before the tips which are grey, the patagia with 

 oblique red-brown shade. Fore wing gi'ey thickly irrorated with 

 red-brown, the medial area below the cell suffused with red-brown ; 

 antemedial line red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, angle! 

 outwards below costa, obsolete in cell, inwardly oblique below the 

 cell ; an oblique red-brown shade aci'oss end of cell ; an elongate 

 very oblique silvery stigma below the cell, angled inwards on 

 median nervure to the antemedial line, somewnat constricted at 

 middle and pointed at extremity ; postmedial line red-broAvn defined 

 on outer side by whitish, arising just below costa, oblique, very 

 slightly incurved below vein 4 ; an oblique red-brown shade from 

 apex to vein 4 just beyond the postmedial line ; subterminal line 

 whitish defined on inner side by rei-brown, from vein 4 to inner 

 margin ; a whitish line defined on inner side by red-brown marks 

 before termen from below apex to vein 3. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with red-bi-own, the terminal area red-brown ; a slight 

 sinuous postmedial line ; cilia whitish Avith a brown line through 

 them ; the underside white thickly irrorated with red-browii, the 

 postmedial line distinct. 



Hal. SiKiiiM (Moller), 2 c? , 2 $ type; Assam (Badgleif), 

 1 $ , Naga Hills (Doherty), 1 $ . Ex_p. 86 millim. 



8384. Phjrtometra purissima. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 1.) 

 Plusia purissima, Butl. i. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 202 (1878). 



Head and thorax gTey-white mixed with red-brown, the tegulte 

 with ]'ed-brown line near tips, the patagia with oblique red-brown 



