PHYTOMETRA. 549 



shade near tips, the metathoracic crest chocolate-brown at tips ; 

 abdomen grey- white mixed with red-brown, the basal crest choco- 

 late-brown ti^^ped with white. Fore wing violaceous white irrorated 

 with reddish brown, the medial area below the cell suffused with 

 olive-brown and the postmedial area below vein 4 tinged with olive ; 

 an obliquely curved svibbasal red-brown striga from costa ; anie- 

 medial line chocolate-brown defined on inner side by white, angled 

 outwards below costa, interrupted in cell and oblique below the cell ; 

 an oblique red-brown shade across end of cell and a small wedge- 

 shaped chocolate-brown spot above lower angle ; the stigma below 

 the cell composed of two obliquely placed silvery spots defined by 

 chocolate-brown, the basal spot narrow, the other elliptical ; post- 

 medial line chocolate-brown defined on outer side by white, strongly 

 bent outward and almost obsolete below costa, then oblique and 

 very slightly incurved below vein 4, a faint reddish tinge before it 

 below vein 2 ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by 

 brown, arising at vein 7, obliquely curved to vein 5, then straight, 

 an olive shade beyond it between veins 7 and 3 ; a whitish line 

 defined on inner side by chocolate-brown before termen from apex 

 to vein 2 ; a fine chocolate-brown terminal line ; cilia chocolate- 

 brown at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the 

 terminal area red-brown, an indistinct sinuous postmedial line ; 

 cilia white with a brown line through them ; the underside white 

 irrorated with red-brown, a brown discoidal striga, distinct post- 

 medial line and subterminal shade. 



Sab. Japan, Tokio {Maries'), 1 5 , Yokohama (J^onas, Pryer), 

 3 S type ; Coeea, Gensan {Leecli), 1 $ ; C. Chika, Ship-y-lSh:1n, 

 1 J ; W. Chika, Chang-yang {Pratt), 1 J , Omei-shan, 1 $ , 

 Kwei-chou, 1 S , Ta-chien-lu (Pratt), 1 § , Huang-ma-chang 

 (Pratt), 1 d , Moupin (Kricheldorf), 1 o • Ex^j. 30-36 millim. 



8385. Phytometra tetragona. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Fhisia tetragona, Wlk. xii. 932 (1857); Hmpsn Moths liul. ii. p. 574; 

 Swinh. Cat. Het. Miis. Oxoii. ii. p. 182. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with red-brown. Fore 

 wing white slightly irrorated with red-brown, the medial area below 

 the cell chocolate-brown ; antemedial line chocolate-brown defined 

 on inner side by white, faint and angled outwards below costa, 

 obsolete in cell, then oblique and cuiwed inwards to inner margin ; 

 an oblique red-brown shade from costa across end of cell ; a very 

 oblique silvery- white stigma below the cell, its upper edge indented 

 at middle ; postmedial line chocolate-brown defined on outer side 

 by white, arising below costa, oblique, very slightly incurved below 

 vein 4 ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by brown, 

 arising at vein 7, obliquely curved to vein 5, then ahnost straight ; 

 a white line defined on inner side by brown suffusion before termen 

 from apex to vein 2 ; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown ; an indistinct 

 postmedial line ; cilia white with a r<;d-brown line near base ; the 



