. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PIITTOMETRA. 455 pale violaceous grey irrorated with a few black scales and suffused in parts with brown, esjx^cially the medial area below the cell and the area before the subterniinal line ; subbasal line silverv-white delined on each side by black-brown, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line silvery-white defined on each side by black-brown, excurved below costa, almost obsolete in cell, then excurved and slio-htly waved; orbicular a faint blackish U-shaped mark; an oblique silvery Y-shaped mark below the cell, defin
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. PIITTOMETRA. 455 pale violaceous grey irrorated with a few black scales and suffused in parts with brown, esjx^cially the medial area below the cell and the area before the subterniinal line ; subbasal line silverv-white delined on each side by black-brown, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line silvery-white defined on each side by black-brown, excurved below costa, almost obsolete in cell, then excurved and slio-htly waved; orbicular a faint blackish U-shaped mark; an oblique silvery Y-shaped mark below the cell, defined by black and its arms filled in with grey ; renifonn defined by brown and with white striie at inner and outer extremites below, slightly constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure; an indistinct diffused brown medial line, excurved to vein 2, then incurved; postmedial line double, brown filled in with violaceous grey, angled inwards at discal fold, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold whe-'e. Pig. 117.—Phyiometra lavendula, ^ it is angled inwards, angled outwards at vein 1, some white striag with dark streaks between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white defined on inner side by brown suffusion, slightly incurved below costa and strongly at discal fold, angled outwards below vein 4, then incurved and ending at tornus ; dentate brown shades before termen below apex and at middle; a fine waved dark terminal line wth a pair of minute black spots at vein 4; cilia white, chequered ^vith black at the veins. Hind wing white tinged Avith brown, the terminal area suffused with brown ; a Avhitish subterminal mark at discal fold and terminal mark below vein 2; cilia white chequered with brown at the veins; the underside white with diffused brownish postmedial and svibterminal lines. Rah. Cape Colony, 1 6 type. Exp. 42 millim. *S277. Phytometra gerda. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 1.) Plasm gerda, i'iing. Iris, xis. p. 224, pi. 8. f. 8 (1907). S . Head rufous ; th
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