484 



NOCTriD-i:. 



fS. Fore wing witli the orbicular obsolete, 

 a". Fore wing with dentate subtcrininal 



line with sliort black streak before it 



in discal fold suhchalyhtea. 



h^. Fore wing without snblenninal line 



or streak in discal fold gorilla. 



8310. Phytometra chalcytes. 



Noctua chalcytes, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 447, pi. 141. f. 3 (1789); Mill. 



Icones, i. pi. 5. IT. 1-4 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. 

 Noctua qticestionis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 'I, p. 81 (1794). 

 ICoctiia bcngaleni'is, Rossi, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 22, pi. 3. f. P (1794). 

 I^'octua chalci/tis. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Kot-t. f. 276 (1802); Frr. Neue 



Beitr. pi. 47. f. 2. 

 Plusia eriosoma, Doubl. Dieffenbacb'e New Zealand, ii. p. 285 (1843); 



Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 569. 

 Plusia. vertieillata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 344 (1852); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. 



p. 70, pi. 152. f. 0. 

 Plusia hitegra, Wlk. xii. 931 (1857). 

 Plusia acljuncta, Wlk. xxxiii. 840 (1865). 

 Plusia buchhohi, Plotz, Stett. Eiit. Zeit. xli 

 Plusia agnata, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 



p. 238. 

 Plusia clinava, Beth.-Baker, Not. Zool. xiii. p. 270 (1906). 

 Plusia coharens, Schultz, Intern. Eut. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). 



. p. 298 (1880). 

 547 (1892); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



Head and thorax laifous, the head and tegulse yellower, the 

 thoracic ci'est paler nifous ahove; pectus yellowish white; ahdonien 

 yellowish white suffused with brown, the crests rufous at tips, the 



Fig. l'22.—P/igtoiiutra chalcytes, c^ . 



lateral anal tufts of male blackish brown. Fore wing bright 

 rufovis with some brown irroration and stria', the medial area below 

 submedian fold and before the postmedial line and the terminal 

 area mostlv suffused with gold; a subba.sal golden striga from 



