51-4 NOCTriD.€. 



8339. Phytometra coufusa. 



Noctua circiDuJlexa, Esp. Sclmiett. iv. pi. 111. ff. o, 6 (1788) ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Sehiiiett., Noct. f. 285; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 2. p. 5J, pi. 1^7. f. 4 ; Fit. 



Neiio ]3eitr. pi. llS (nee Linn.). 

 Tiusici rovfum, Steph. Spec. Erit. Anijn. v. p. 291 (1850). 

 riimu (jiiha, Giien. Noct. ii. p. 346 (1852) ; Hmpsn. Motbs Ind. ii.p. 571 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 

 Plusia hiyutta, Stand. Roui. Mem. Ti. p. 545 (1892). 



Head and thorax iiit'ous tinged with greyish, the tegulae, patagia, 

 and nietathoracic crest grey at ti])s, the patagia Avith an ohHtjue 

 grey line across them ; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown, 

 the crests red-brown with some grey at tips. Fore wing greyish 

 suffvised and in-orated with red-brown and with a shght golden 

 gloss, the medial area below the cell deep rufous ; subbasal line 

 greyish, siiuious, from costa to yein 1 ; antemedial line greyish to 

 median nervure, then silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, 

 bent inwards in cell, then oblique ; an oblique brilliant silver stigma 

 below the cell angled inwards on median nervure and dilated at lower 

 extremity ; reniform with very faint pale outline, constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with greyish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely waved ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, red-brown, excurved below vein 7, angled 

 inwards at discal fold and outwards below veins 4 and 3, a wedge- 

 shaped patch of deep rufous suffusion beyond it from apex to below 

 vein 3 ; a fine red-brown terminal line defined on inner side by a 

 whitish line from just below apex to below vein 3. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with rufous with a golden gloss, the terminal area 

 rather darker ; cilia whitish with a red-brown line near base ; the 

 underside greyish ochreous iiTorated with red-brown and with faint 

 diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing \\ith the stigma not angled inwards but with 

 minute silver streak before it on median nervure. 



Ab. 2. higutta. Fore wing with the stigma divided into two 

 spots. 



Hah. France, Leech Coll. ; Germaxy, Zeller Sc Frey Colls. ; 

 Austria ; Hungary ; Spain ; Italy, Stresa {A. II. Jones) ; 

 Dai.matia ; Balkan States ; S. Kussia, Sarepta, Leech Coll. ; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Lydia ; Syhi.v ; Perslv ; 

 W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk- 

 Kul ; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siijeria, Dahm-ia, Amurland, 2 S ; 

 Japan, Yezo {Pn/er), 1 cf , Hakodate (AiKh-etn;), 1 (S , 1 $, 

 Tokio {Maries), 1 c? , 1 5, Yokohama {Jonas, Man/ei/), 2 j; 

 CoREA, Gensan {Leech), 1$ ; Kashmih, Nubra Valley, Panomik 

 {Ar/iinf), 1 c? ; Hab. ion., 1 J type, Stainton Coll. A\rj). 32- 

 40 millini. 



Larva. Kirbj, Bntt. & Moths Enr. p. 270 ; Hffni. Ranp. p. 134, pi. 35 f. 11. 



Green or brownish ; dorsal line black edged with wlnte ; subdorsal 

 stripe black edged with white, waved on abdominal somites; lateral 

 stripe white. Food-plants : Achillea millefoliuni and Matricaria 

 chamomilla. 5 & 7. 



