COS NOCTriD.T.. 



ventral surface yellow tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright 

 rufous, the basal costal area, the inner area beyond the anteniedial 

 line and the postmedial area towards tornus golden irrorated with 

 rufous ; a double i-ufous subbasal striga from co.sta ; anteniedial 

 line double, red-brown, excurved below costa and inwardly oblique 

 below the cell ; a rather pear-shaped golden-silvery stignia below 

 middle of cell and extending into the cell, dehned by blackish, with 

 a similar rather oblique golden-silvery spot beyond _ its lower 

 extremity ; a black point at upper angle of cell ; a slight rufovis 

 medial line, very oblique from costa to beyond lower angle of cell, 

 then very oblique inwardly and slightly sinuous ; postmedial line 

 rufous, excurved below costa, angled inwards at discal fold, ex- 

 curved at vein 4, then oblique, double and sinuous towards inner 

 margin ; a golden-silvery wedge-shaped mark below vein (3 from 

 the postmedial to the subterminal line, which is rufous, oblique and 

 diffused to discal fold, then slighter and somewhat sinuous, defined 

 on inner side by golden-yellow towards apex ; a rufous line before 

 termen and a terminal line; cilia Avith a pinkish tinge. Hind 

 wing ochreous whitish suffused with brown ; a fine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia purplish pink ; the underside white irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area, and terminal area except towards tornus tinged 

 with rufous, a small brown discoidal spot and postmedial line 

 excui-A'ed below costa. 



Ab. 1. Fore Aving with the silvery spots below the cell confluent. 



Hah. Brttaik, Leech Coll. ; FEA^x■E ; G-EitMAifT, Zeller, Frey, 

 & Leech Colls.; Alstkia; Hungary ; Switzerl.os-d ; Spaix, 

 Catalonia, ? Castile ; Balkax States ; Scaxdixavia ; Russia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armexta ; W. Turkestax, Tarbagatai, 

 Issyk-Kul ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Tvrkestax, Hi ; E. Siberia, 

 Dahuria, Aniurland. Exp. 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157 ; Barrett, Lcp. Brit. vi. p. 114, pi. 242. 

 f. 1 ; Hoffm. Raiip. p. 134, pi. 35. f. 10. 



Green ; dorsal line darker defined l)y white ; subdorsal and 

 lateral lines white; spiraeular line yellow, head green. Food- 

 plants: Grasses, Carex, Typha, Sparganium ramosum, Iris pseud- 

 acoriis, and Alisma plantago. 5-7. 



8332. Phytometra festata. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 32.) 



riusiafestata,Grse3. Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 262 (1889); Snell. Tijd. 

 y. Ent. xliii. Versla<r, p. 46 ; John, Hor. Soc. Eut. Ross, xsxix. p. 253, 

 pi. xiv. f. 24; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous, the patagia except 

 at base and the metatliorax red-brown ; abdomen ochreous tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous, the veins 

 streaked with brown, the basal costal area, the inner area beyond 

 the anteraedial line, and the terminal area golden irrorated with 

 rufous ; a curved red-brown subbasal striga f roni costa ; anteniedial 

 line double, red-brown, angled outwards l)elow costa and at median 

 nervure, then inwardly oblique ; a rather pear-shaped golden-silvery 



