444 NOCTUID^. 



Italy ; Scandiitavia, Dovrefjeld ; Armenia ; Asia Minob, Pontus, 

 Taurus. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 78 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 256, pi. 165. f. 1. 



Pale brownish ochreous irrorated with brown ; a dorsal series of 

 darker V-shaped marks, indistinct on thoracic somites ; subdorsal 

 line darker ; head brown with dark markings. Food-plants : seed- 

 capsules of Silene inflata and S. marithna. 7-8, 



1785. Sideridis eximia. 



Diantkoecia eximia, Staud. Iris, viii. p. 319, pi. 6. f. 7 (1895) ; id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 161. 



c? . Head and thorax white with some brown hair ; palpi pale 

 red-brown ; frons with brown bar above ; tegulse with diffused 

 brown medial line ; abdomen pale yellow-brown mixed with grey. 

 Fore wing white, with a slight violaceous tinge and irrorated with 

 brown ; subbasal line represented by a black striga from costa and 

 a curved black mark below the cell, retracted to base and followed 

 by a prominent triangular spot ; antemedial line double, the outer 

 strong, curved and slightly waved, with slight brown shading on 

 inner side and more prominent shading on outer; claviform brown, 

 with its extremity defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 white with brown centres and defined by brown, the former oblique 

 elliptical ; medial line oblique from costa to below cell, then dentate 

 and inwardly oblique, the area between it and postmedial line 

 suffused with brown ; postmedial line double, very slightly waved, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then very oblique, 

 the area beyond it tinged with brown to the subterminal line, which 

 has minute dentate black marks before it below costa and at middle, 

 is excurved between veins 7 and 2, and defined by white on outer 

 side ; cilia pale brown. Hind wing pale, suffused with fuscous 

 especially towards termen and with an ochreous tinge at base ; cilia 

 pale brown, white at tips ; the underside pale thickly irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and traces 

 of subterminal band. 



Hab. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 c? , Amdo ; Punjab, Kulu (Diidf/eon), 

 1 cS . Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus PHYSETICA. 



Type. 



Physetica, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 5 (1887) ccerulea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 joint greatly dilated in male, with a small orifice on outer side near extremity ; 

 frons smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennae of male ciliated; head and 

 thorax clothed with hair only and without crests ; fore tarsi with long curved 

 claw on outer side of 1st joint ; pectus clothed with long hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest on basal segment. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced 

 and the termeu obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



