550 . NOCTTJIDiE. 



■underside white in-orated with red-brown, a hrown discoidal striga, 

 distinct postmedial line, and subterminal shade. 



Sah. "India," typef $ in Mus. Oxon. ; Punjab, Kulu 

 {JELoclcing), 2 $ , Dejra Dhun, 2 6 . I^xp. 36 millim. 



8386. Phytometra anda. 



Thisia anda, Driiee, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 518 ; id. Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. ii. 

 p. 503, pi. 96. f. 10. 



(? . Head and thorax grey- white mixed with red-hrown ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with red-brown, the crests black-brown, grey at tips. 

 Fore wing pale violaceous grey tinged with red-brown and iiTorated 

 with dark brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; the end of 

 cell, medial area below the cell and postmedial area towards inner 

 margin suffused with deep golden brown ; subbasal line slight, dark 

 brown defined on onter side by whitish, fi'om costa to submedian 

 fold ; antemedial Hne dark brown defined on outer side by whitish, 

 oblique and almost straight ; orbicular a small triangular grey spot 

 defined by dark brown ; a small U-shaped silvery stigma filled in 

 with silver and with its inner arm produced to a streak below 

 median nervnre. with a round spot beyond its lower extremity ; 

 reniform with slight silvery outline and blackish brown marks in 

 its extremities, its outer edge strongly indented at middle where 

 there is some dark brown beyond it ; postmedial Hne dark chocolate- 

 brown defined on outer side by whitish, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; subterminal line chocolate-brown slightly defined on outer 

 side by whitish, arising below costa, slightly excurved at vein 6 

 then oblique ; a chocolate-brown hne before termen from costa to 

 vein 2, with a narrow violaceous white band beyond it before the 

 fine chocolate-brown terminal hne. Hind vdng reddish brown, the 

 basal and costal areas whitish ; cilia whitish Avith a brown line 

 through them ; the underside whitish tinged with brown. 



Hah. Guatemala City {Bodriguez), 1 6 ^J^Q Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exi^. 40 millim. 



*8387. Phytometra orhifer. 



Phtsia orhifer, Guen, Yinson's Voyage a Madagascar, Annexe F, p. 47, 

 pi. vi. f."3(1865). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown, the tegulse Avith blackish tips, a 

 blackish line across prothorax ; abdomen grey-brown. Pore wing 

 duep chocolate-red to the postmedial line except the costal area 

 which is pinkish grey from near base to near apex, the terminal 

 area fuscous brown with a pinkish grey spot on termen at discal 

 fold and a triangular patch in submedian interspace ; subbasal line 

 pale golden -yellow, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 pale golden-yellow, obsolete towards costa, oblique and sinuous from 

 cell to inner margin ; orbicular pale golden -yellow, round ; a 

 U-shaped stigma below the cell silvery with golden edges and with 



