560 ISrOCTUTDTR. 



formed by a minute silver lunule above median nervm-e towards 

 end of cell, a round spot below median nervure almost or quite 

 touching an elliptical spot with another round spot below it; 

 reniform faintly defined by grey and strongly constricted at middle ; 

 postmedial line very slight and indistinct, grey, sinuous, angled 

 inwards in submedian fold below the silvery stigma ; the veins of 

 terminal area slightly streaked with grey ; a fine waved grey sub- 

 terminal line and fine waved grey line just before termen. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with reddish brown especially on terminal 

 area ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 brown, a brown discoidal lunule and faint subterminal shade. 



Hah. Transvaal, White R. {Cooke), 1 5; Natal, Durban 

 {Bell-Marley'), 1 $ type. JExp. 34 miUim. 



8401. Phytometra disticta, n. sp. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 11.) 



5 . Head and tegulte pale red slightly irrorated with brown, the 

 antennae whitish tinged with brown ; thorax pale red-brown mixed 

 with whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged with pale red-brown. Fore 

 wing whitish tinged with pale red and striated with red-broAvn ; 

 antemedial line red-brown defined on inner side by whitish, angled 

 outwards below costa, incurved and almost obsolete in cell, then 

 oblique ; two obliquely placed silver points defined by red-brown 

 below the cell ; a red-brown discoidal patch ; a diffused red-brown 

 medial line, oblique to the reniform and inwardly oblique below it ; 

 postmedial line red-brown, bent outwards and almost obsolete below 

 costa, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line red-brown, excurved 

 below vein 7, then oblique and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; 

 a fine waved red-brown terminal line. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 and irrorated with pale red-brown ; a fine red-brown terminal line ; 

 cilia white faintly tinged with red ; the underside white tinged 

 with pale red, a slight brownish discoidal lunule, indistinct diffused 

 postmedial line, and diffused waved subterminal line. 



Hah. Peku, Callao {J.J. Walker'), 1 $ type. Exp. 36millim. 



8402. Phytometra hampsoni. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 12.) 

 Phcsia hampsoni, Leech, Traus. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 586. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with whitish 

 and some black ; palpi black-brown, the extremities of 1st and 2nd 

 joints ochreous ; frons with lateral black bars ; tibiae black-brown 

 at base, the tarsi black-brown ringed with white ; abdomen with 

 the crests blackish at tips. Fore wing golden brown with a few 

 black striae ; subbasal line white, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line white, incmwed in cell and angled outwards at 

 median nervure, then oblique, sinuous ; orbicular vnth whitish 

 centre defined by black and white annulus, round ; reniform 

 blackish with grey-white annulus, elliptical ; a small round white 



