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8393. Phytometra argyrodonta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 6.) 



Plusia argyrodonta, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 432 (1910). 



6 . Head and thorax brown mixed with grey- white ; abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing grey suffused with cupreous brown and 

 slightly striated with black ; subbasal line represented by double 

 curved black strise from costa and oblique white striga from cell 

 defined on each side by black, rather diffused on outer side ; ante- 

 medial line double, black filled in with whitish, obsolete on costal 

 half and oblique from cell to inner margin ; the stigma below the 

 cell oblique V-shaped, silvery-white filled in with brownish white, 

 its inner arm sinuous ; reniform defined at sides by silvery-white 

 and black, constricted at middle and slightly angled inwards above 

 median nervure ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then bent outwards, some- 

 what dentate towards costa ; subterminal line slight, whitish 

 defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a faint 

 whitish line before termen and fine black terminal line ; cilia 

 white, mixed with brown at tips. Hind wing pure white ; a fine 

 brown terminal line ; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial series of 

 minute streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Natal, Maritzburg, 1 S type. Exp. 40 millim. 



*8394. Phytometra v-minus. 



Plusia v-minus, Oberth. tit. Ent. x. p. 27, pi. 3. f. 12 (1884) ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 239. 



S • Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey ; 

 antennse at base whitish with dark rings ; pectus and legs mostly 

 grey. Fore wing pale ciipreous brown slightly irrorated with dark 

 brown and mostly suffused with dark red-brown, the base greyish ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, pale, excurved and slightly defined on each 

 side by brown from costa to median nervure, then with slight black 

 bar on its inner side and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line pale 

 defined on each side by brown, diffused on outer side below costa 

 and cell, excurved below costa, then incurved to median nervure, 

 then obliquely excurved and not quite reaching inner margin ; 

 orbicular a small oblique V-shaped mark with brown centre and 

 slight grey annulus, a small V-shaped silver mark below it, below 

 the cell ; reniform narrow with slight silvery annulus, open above, 

 strongly constricted at middle and with slight black marks on its 

 outer edge ; a brown shade below the cell to postmedial line, an 

 irregular oblique medial shade from costa to lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line pale defined on each side by broAvn, bent outwards 

 below costa, oblique to vein 2, then nearly erect, with an oblique 

 whitish shade beyond it from costa to vein 3 ; subterminal line 



