556 KOCTUIDJE. 



black-brown, defined on Inner side by dark brown suffusion 

 expanding into a patch at middle, sligbtly incurved below costa, 

 then excurved, angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle 

 and ending at tornus ; a fine black terminal line curved inwards to 

 costa and with whitish line on its inner side expanding into a patch 

 towards tornus ; cilia whitish with slight brown line near base on 

 apical half and brownish tips. Hind wing ochreous white tinged 

 with rufous, a diffused oblique postmedial line not reaching inner 

 margin, the terminal area dark brown, broad at costa and narrowing 

 to tornus ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white with brown tips 

 towards apex ; the underside whitish suffused and irrorated with 

 rufous, diffused oblique medial and postmedial lines, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown. 



Hah. E. SiBEEiA, Amurland, Pokrofka, in Coll. Piingeler, 

 Ussm-i. Exp. 36 millim. 



8395. Phytometra taiicrei. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 7.) 



Plusia tavcrei, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 328, pi. 6. f. 14 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 239. 



<S . Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown ; abdomen 

 with the basal segments white with the crests brown and white, 

 the terminal segments fuscous brown with the anal tuft white. 

 Fore wing violaceous white tinged in parts with brown and 

 irrorated with a few black scales, the medial area below the cell 

 and the terminal area with a pale olive-golden gloss ; a subbasal 

 brown striga from costa defined on each side by white ; antemedial 

 line double, brown filled in with white, angled outwards below 

 costa and inwards at median nervure, then excurved ; orbicular an 

 obliqiie brown bar defined by white ; an oblique silvery V-shaped 

 stigma below the cell filled in with white ; reniform narrow with 

 white annulus and its centre defined by brown, somewbat produced 

 at upper extremity and angled inwards on median nervui-e ; a 

 rather diffused brown medial line, obliquely incurved to lower 

 angle of cell, then oblique and sinuous ; postmedial line double, 

 brown filled in with white and defined on outer side by white, bent 

 outwards below costa, then oblique, sinuous, some white points 

 with brown between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 brown slightly defined on outer side by white towards costa and 

 inner margin, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a brown 

 terminal line defined on inner side by a narrow violaceous white 

 band except towards apex where it is reduced to a fine line incurved 

 to costa ; cilia white with a brown line near base and chequered 

 with brown at tips. Hind wing grey-brown with a slight golden 

 gloss ; an indistinct oblique dark postmedial line and subterminal 

 shade ; cilia brown at base, white at tips ; the underside white 

 irrorated with brown, a medial brown shade, diffused postmedial 

 line excurved below costa, then incurved and ending at tornus, and 

 a subterminal shade. 



I-Iuh. Tibet, Kuku-Noor, Amdo, Sining, 1 d. Exp. 34' millim. 



