558 NOCTUIB.E. 



oblique black line from the cell ; antemedial line double, black, 

 angled outwards below costa and at median nervure, then oblique 

 and sinuous ; orbicular with yellowish white outline and its centre 

 defined by rufous, very narrow and oblique ; a very narrow obliqua 

 and elongate yellowish white V-shaped stigma below the cell, 

 extending to just beyond the postmedial line, its arms filled in 

 with white ; reniform defined by black, narrow, its inner edge 

 slightly indented above and its upper extremity slightly produced ; 

 postmedial line double, brown, the outer line black towards inner 

 margin, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely 

 waved to submedian fold, then excurved, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line fine, black, dentate, with 

 black streaks before it below veins 5 and 4, and angled inwards 

 at vein 2 and submedian fold ; a waved black terminal line. Hind 

 wing brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces of basal half 

 whitish ; cilia white with a series of brown spots ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown, the costal and terminal areas greyish, 

 a slight brown discoidal bar and rather diffused postmedial and 

 subterminal lines. 



Hah. St. Heleis'a (WoUasfon), 2 J , 3 $ type commidendrl ; 

 Bk. E. Aeeica, Eb Urru (^Beffoii), 1 $ , Machakos {G?' aw shay), 

 16, 1 $ ; Rhodesia, Bulawayo {Ma^^sliall) , 2 5 ; Transvaal, 

 Pretoria (Distant), 1 $ , Johannesburg (Distant), 1 (^ , 1 $ ; 

 Natal, Durban (Gueinzius), 1 c? , 2 5 ^jpe ; Mauritius, 

 Curepipe (Tulloch), 1 $ . Uxp. 34-42 millim. 



Larva. Grreen with fine partly confluent sinuous white subdorsal 

 lines interrupted by the m.inute white warts, each with a dark hair ; 

 spiracular line narrow, yellowish white ; head yellowish green 

 sparsely dotted with black ; two pairs of ventral claspers. Food- 

 plant, Gommiclendron rohustum. Pupates in a cocoon of white silk. 



8398. Phytometra arachnoides. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 9.) 



Plusia arachnoides, Dist. Entoui. xxxiv. p. 285 (1901). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey-white, the 

 tegulse at middle and tips and the prothorax with white lines ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, ventrally irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing grey suffused with cupreous red-brown and 

 slightly irrorated with dark brown, the veins streaked with white ; 

 antemedial line double, white, angled outwards on median nervure, 

 then oblique ; orbicular defined by silvery- white, narrow, oblique ; 

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

 with oblique white streak from below costa through the orbicular 

 to between its arms ; reniform slightly defined by white and 

 strongly constricted at middle ; postmedial line double, white, 

 bent outwards below costa, obliquely curved to vein 4, then 

 almost obsolete and inciuwed to vein 2 and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold to below the V-shaped stigma and angled outwards 

 on vein 1 ; subterminal line white, excurved to vein 4 where it is 



