PHTTOMETRA. 527 



terminal areas ; hiiid wing- without brown at base and the terminal 

 band obsolescent. 



Hah. W. Siberia, Altai; Tibet, Amdo ; Moxgolia, Urga ; 

 E. Siberia, Dahuria, Kentei, 1 d" , 1 $ , Amurland; Kamtsciiatka. 

 Edy. 34: millim. 



8357. Pliytometra v-argenteum. 



Koctua t'-a?v7c«/e«;?j, Esp. Schiiielt. iv. pi. IbS. f. 3 (1795); Slaud. Cat. 



Lep. pill. p. 237. 

 JSW-liur intja, lliibn. Etir. Schmett., Noct. f. 275 (1802) ; Diip. Lep. Fr. vii.2. 



p. y."5, pi. l;55. f. .-J ; Fit. Eeitr. iii. p. 40, pi. 107. f. 1 ; Herr.-Scluirf. Eui-. 



iSclimett., Nuct. f. 205. 



Head and thorax bright rufous, some o£ the scales tipped with 

 whitish ; palpi darker brown with whitish lines in front and behind ; 

 antennte with white ring at extremity of basal joint, the shaft 

 wliitish in front ; tegulie with white lines at middle and tips with 

 tlurker brown between them ; jmtagia with oblique white bar and 

 bar at middle defining a triangular dark ]xiteh ; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged with rufous ; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, 

 the crests bright rufous. Fore wing pink suffused in parts with 

 red-brown, especially on discal area ; an oblique black streak from 

 base of co.sta ; subbasal line double, the inner line black, the outer 

 red-brown, hlled in with yellow and delined on outer side by yellow, 

 sinuous, from costa to submedian fold where there is a slightyellow 

 streak beyond it deHned above and below by blackish ; a slight 

 black streak on inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 double, the inner line red-brown, the outer blackish, angled outwards 

 below costa, inwards at median nervure and outwards just above 

 and below vein 1 ; orbicular represented by a small U-shaped silvery 

 mark deHned by blackish and with two yellow jjoints above it ; a 

 larger similar U-^^haped mark below it with an elliptical spot 

 beyond its lower part ; reniform faintly defined by yellowish and 

 its lower part by tliive silvery points, its u])per part very narrow and 

 oblique ; an oblicjue brown bar from cos.ta to the reniform, an oblique 

 black streak beyond u])per extremity of reniform, then an ol)lique 

 sinuous brown line to inner margin ; postmedial line double, red- 

 brown, strongly excurved below costa, then obhque and sinuous to 

 inner margin, the inner hne with some bkick on it, defined on 

 outer side by a yellowish line which is well separated at costa ; 

 subterminal line yellow defined on inner side by black, excurved 

 below vein 7 and waved below vein 5 ; a yellow line before termen ; 

 cilia pink at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 red-brown with a faint golden gloss; eilia rufous; the underside 

 white tinged with Ijrown, a sHght dark di.scoidal lunulc, oblicpie 

 rather ditfused medial and postmedial lines, a faint subterminal 

 shade. 



Hah. Austria, Tirol, Carniok ; Switzerland, Yakis, Zeller, 

 Frev. k Leech Colls., Zermatt (A. H. Jones) ; Italy, Piedmont, 

 Leech Coll. Exp. 30-12 millim. 



Larva. Kii-by, Hutt. & Moths Eur. p. 2(58; Ilffm. Kaiip p. 1;!4. 



Dull green with yellowish lines. Food-plants: Jsopj/ntin 

 fhaliciroiden and llowers of T/ial/cfrum fwlidunt. 0, 



