PHTTOMETRA. 557 



8396. Pliytometra ochreata. 



Plusia ochreata, Wlk. xxxiii. 839 (1865) ; Moore, Lep. Oeyl. iii, p. 72, 



pi. 151. f. 4; Hiiipsii. Moths Iiid. ii. p. 573. 

 Plusia coriiucopicB, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. sxiii. p. 72, pi. 6. f. 3 (1880). 



Head and thorax purplish brown mixed with some grey-white, 

 the vertex of head, tegulse, and thoracic crest in front tinged with 

 fulvous ; abdomen yellowish tinged with brown, the crests tipped 

 with dark brown and white. Fore wing purplish suffused in parts 

 and irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 golden cupreous except towards tornus ; a subbasal rufous striga 

 defined on outer side by silvery- white from costa ; antemedial line 

 fine, silvery- white defined on each side by rufous, angled outwards 

 below costa, strongly incurved in cell, then oblique ; orbicular 

 defined by silvery- white, narrow, oblique elliptical ; a narrow 

 elongate oblique silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell 

 extending to the postmedial line ; reniform with slight white 

 annulus, narrow, somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; 

 postmedial line red-brown slightly defined on outer side by white, 

 oblique to discal fold, then inwardly oblique and bent outwards 

 below submedian fold, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line dark red-brown, excurved below vein 7, incurved and 

 somewhat diffused on inner side at discal fold, and slightly angled 

 outwards below veins 4 and 3. Hind wing purplish brown, the 

 basal and costal areas yellowish white tinged with brown ; the 

 underside purplish grey thickly irrorated with brown, a slight 

 brown postmedial line and diffused subterminal line. 



Hah. Japak, Yokohama (Fiyer), 1 c? ; Corea (Leech), 1 $; 

 Hongkong (J". J. Walker), 1 S ; Fobmosa, Takow {ILobson), 



1 S ; Punjab, Simla, Deyra Dhun, 1 c? ; Assam, Khasis, 1 S , 

 Nagas ; Bengal, Calcutta, 1 5; Madras, Wilgivh {Hampson), 



2 c? , 1 2 ; Travancobe, Pirnifid {Mrs. Imray), 1 $ ; Ceylon, 

 d" , 1 $ type ; Penang {Ridley), 1 S ; Johore {Bidley), 1 S ; 



Singapore {Bidley), 3 6 ; Celebes ; Queensland, Brisbane 

 {Turner), 2 ^ . JEsp. 24-28 millim. 



8397. Phytomstra transfixa. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 8.) 



Ahrosf.ola (ramfixa, Wlk. xii. 884 (1867). 



Hahrostola commidendri, Wollasl. A. M. N. H. (5) iii. p. 230 (1879). 



Head and thorax brown mixed Avith grey, the ti]3s of tegulte 

 and dorsum of thorax red-brown, the tegulge with black medial 

 line and the patagia with curved black line near base ; tibiae at 

 extremities, the spurs and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey 

 suff vised with red-brown, the crests dark brown and grey, the 

 ventral surface grey irrorated with brown. Fore wing purplish 

 grey tinged with red-brown and striated with blackish ; subbasal 

 line double, brown and excurved from costa to a curved black line 

 from base of subcostal nervure to vein 1, where it is met by an 



