PHTTOMETEA. 559 



angled inwards, angled outwards below veins 4, 3, 2 and ending at 

 tornus ; a fine white line before termen except towards tornus ; 

 cilia white with some dark brown scales. Hind wing with the 

 basal half whitish, the veins tinged with brown, the terminal half 

 brown ; cilia white with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 white, the costal area irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown, a brown discoidal striga and oblique 

 postmedial Hne. 



Hah. Transvaal, Pretoria {Distant), 1 $ type, Johannesburg 

 {Cooke), 1 6 . Eccp. 32-36 milhm. 



8399. Phytometra aranea. 



Plusia aranea, Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 112, pi. ir. f. 20 (1909). 



Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with grey- white ; 

 antennte white, ringed with bi^own towards base ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen white tinged with brown, the crests dark brown 

 and white. Fore wing glossy chocolate-brown thickly irrorated 

 and striated with white and some blackish scales, the apical area 

 from beyond the oblique white shade and down to vein 2 with less 

 white ; antemedial line fine, white, excurved to median nervure, 

 then inwardly oblique ; orbicular defined by white, narrow, oblique ; 

 the stigma below the cell fine, silvery-white, oblique elongate 

 V-shaped, an oblique white shade from the antemedial line at sub- 

 costal nervure to between its arms ; reniform with fine white outline, 

 slightly angled inwards on median nervure and its outer edge 

 indented at middle ; postmedial line fine, white, bent outwards 

 below costa, slightly incurved from below vein 7 to vein 3, then 

 somewhat oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; the veins 

 of terminal area with fine white streaks ; subterminal line fine, 

 white, minutely dentate, excurved below costa and angled outwards 

 to near termen below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine white line just before 

 termen ; cilia white mixed with some brown and with a waved 

 white line through them. Hind wing white tinged wdth brown, 

 the veins and terminal half suffused with brown ; cilia white with 

 a brown line throiigh them ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown and with diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. Uganda, Huwenzori {JVollaston),! $ type; Teansyaal, 

 White R. {Gooke), 1 6 . Exp. 30 millim. 



8400. Phytometra tetrastigma. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 10.) 



Plusia tetrastigma, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) v. p. 431 (1910). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with grey- 

 white. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated and striated with dark 

 brown, a large triangular patch of dark red-brown extending 

 obliquely from apex below costa into the end of cell and down to 

 vein 2 ; traces of a sinuous grey subbasal line from costa to vein 1 

 and of a sinuous grey antemedial line ; an oblique silvery stigma 



