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NOCTUIDtE. 
Phycidimorpha rosea. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 22.) 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Male. Antennae ochreous ; head and thorax pale rosy pink; abdomen pale ochreous. 
Fore -wing rosy pink ; the costa narrowly Avhite ; a dark submarginal speck in the interno- 
median interspace ; a series of marginal black specks in the interspaces. Hind wing whitish, 
suffused with fuscous towards apex and outer margin. 
CATEPHIN^. 
Arete ccerulea, Guen. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 5 (larva).) 
Cocytodes coerulea, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 41. 
Larva. Head black ; the mandibles brown ; somites black, with transverse dorsal white 
barSj each enclosing a black line ; the stigmata are ochreous and black-ringed with some red 
round them, and situated on a white patch with a black spot near the top from which springs 
a white hair, a similar spot at the bottom of the white patch ; an interspiracular discon- 
nected white line ; a broader subspiracular line with a black spot from which springs a 
white hair below each spiracle; a broad ventral white band; the eleventh somite humped and 
black dorsally ; the anal somite dorsally orange, sj)otted with black ; head and somites with 
sparsely scattered, long, white hairs ; eight pairs of legs. 
Length of blown larva 2| inches. Food-plant Bcehmeria. 
Gyrtona hylusalis, Wlk. (Plate CLXIII. figs. 18, 21.) 
Gyrtona hylusalis, Wlk. Oat. xxvii. p. 03. 
Expanse 1 inch. 
Head and thorax dark brown with a purplish gloss ; abdomen dull brown. Fore wing 
grey with brown suflusion and patches and with a purplish gloss, the most prominent darker 
patches being one at the base, a broad medial band, and a patch surrounding the reniform 
stigma ; indistinct double waved subbasal, antemedial, postmedial, and submarginal brown 
lines. Hind wing fuscous. 
Some specimens are paler and more uniform brown. 
Gyrtona thoracica, Wlk. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 19.) 
Gyrtona thoracia, WJh. Cat, xxvii. p. 9. 
Expanse 1^^^^ inch. 
Differs from hylusalis in the head, thorax, and abdomen being almost white. Fore wing 
with the basal half of the wing suffused with black ; the outer half whitish, the area at outer 
angle suffused with black. Hind wing paler fuscous. 
