580 NOCTUIDiE. 



the crests tipped with grey. Fore wing rufous tinged with grey 

 and striated with red-brown, the terminal area metallic gold 

 slightly striated with rufous, emitting from its inner edge on 

 inner half an oblique wedge-shaped patch to median nervure, where 

 it extends from the antemedial line to beyond vein 2 and into the 

 middle of cell as a triangular patch ; an indistinct double sinuous 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line in- 

 distinctly double, red-brown, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and angled inwards on median nervure ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by the triangular golden patch, faintly defined by red- 

 brown ; reniform faintly defined by red-brown ; postmedial line 

 red-bi*own, oblique and slightly sinuous to below end of cell, then 

 retracted to median nervure at oviter edge of orbicular, then 

 interrupted by the golden area and oblique to inner margin ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, reddish brown, exeurved below vein 7 

 and at middle, and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; 

 the tennen suffused with rufous ; cilia whitish mixed with rufous 

 and with a rufous line near base. Hind wing whitish svifixised 

 with rufous ; the underside white tinged with rufous, an indistinct 

 brownish postmedial line. 



Hah. Madagascar, Betsileo (Cotvan), 1 6 . Exp. 36 millim. 



8431. Phytometra orichalcea. 



Noctua orichcdcea, Fabr. Sjst. Eat. p. 607 (1775); Hmpsn. Moths Iiid. ii. 



p. »n. 



Isloctua clirydtina, Martyn, Psyche, pi. 21 f. 56 (1797) ; Moore, Lep. Oej'l. 



iii. p. 70, pi. 152. f. 7. 

 mctua. aiirifera, Hiibn.Eui-. Schmett., Noct. f.4ri3 (1822) ; Diip. Lep. Fr. 



vii. 2. p. 24, pi. 134. f. 2 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 509. ff. 1, 2 ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 237. 



Head and thorax rufous, the tegulse at tips, the patagia and 

 thoracic crest behind red-brown irrorated with grey ; tegiilse with 

 a slight brown line near base ; antennae whitish ringed with 

 brown ; pectus and legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing purplish 

 grey suffused with red-brown and striated with dark brown, the 

 postmedial area brilliant metallic gold from just below costa to 

 submedian fold above which it emits an oblique fascia to median 

 nervure on which it extends from well before the orbicular 

 to beyond origin of vein 2 ; orbicular defined by silvery-grej'", 

 rounded ; reniform faintly defined by silvery-grey, its outer edge 

 strongly indented at middle ; postmedial line slight, double, red- 

 brown, filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then oblique 

 and slightly sinuous, retracted at vein 5, interrupted at the golden 

 fascia and bent outwards above inner margin ; an indistinct 

 oblique waved red-brown subterminal line ; a fine waved red-brown 

 line before termen defining the golden area ; a fine red-brown 

 terminal line. Hind wing dark cupreous red-brown, the inter- 

 spaces of basal half white ; cilia whitish with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside white irrorated with red-brown, the terminal 



