532 NOCTUID.T. 



into an elliptical spot ; reniforni slightly defined b}' silver, strongly 

 constricted at middle and with slight black marks in its extremities ; 

 a faint brownish medial shade, oblique lielow the cell ; postmedial 

 line double, rufous filled in with greyish, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique, at vein 2 slightly bent outwards then somewhat 

 sinuous and filled in with silver ; subterminal line greyish defined 

 on inner side by golden-brown suffusion, exeurved at vein 7 and 

 slightl}^ angled outwards below veins 3 and 2 ; a slight rufous shade 

 l)efore termen from apex to vein 3 and a fine terminal dark line ; 

 cilia with slight brown spots at the veins from apex to vein 3. 

 Hind wing ochreous tinged with golden-brown, the terminal area 

 rather browner ; a faint brownish postmedial line ; cilia whitish 

 tinged with rufous and intersected Avith rufous from apex to vein 3 ; 

 the underside ochreous tinged with rufous, a fine brown postmedial 

 line exeurved below costa, and subtei'minal shade. 



Hah. Lapland, Leech Coll.; Finlaxd ; Russia, Urals; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia, Urga ; E. Siberia, Dahuria, 

 Amurland. Exp. 42 millim. 



8364. Phytometra mandarina. 



Noctua mandarina. Fit. Xeue Beitr. v. p. 164, pi. 479. f. 4 (Jan. 1S4G) ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 23S. 

 Plusia iHierscdlaris, Herr.-ScliaflP. Eur. Scbiiiett., Xoct. f. 510 (1850). 

 Plusia ti/pimta. Bull. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 201 (1878;; id. 111. Het. B.M. 



ii. p. 34, pi. 31. f. 10. 

 Plusia vbscuru, Oberth. Et. Ent. x. p. 27, pi 3. f. 13 (1884). 



Head and thorax bright rufous, the tegulae, patagia, and meta- 

 thoracic crest tipped with whitish and the patagia with oblique 

 whitish line at middle ; antennae whitish ; tarsi ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen rufous. Fore wing bright rufous mixed with 

 purplish grey and striated with red-brown ; subbasal line silver 

 defined on each side by rufous, sinuovis, from costa to vem 1 ; ante- 

 medial line silver defined on each side by rufous, angled outwards 

 below costa, strongly exeurved in cell, then oblique and sinuous ; 

 orbicular defined by silver, oblique and somewhat quadrate, con- 

 joined to an oblique silver stigma below the cell, its tail dilated 

 into an elli]:)tical spot ; reniform defined by silver and with slight 

 black marks in its extremities, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge 

 strongly constricted at middle ; a slight red-brown medial shade, 

 oblique to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique and angled 

 inwards at submedian fold ; postmedial line doiible, rufous filled in 

 with silver, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly 

 sinuous, angled inwards at vein 2 ; subterminal line brown with rufous 

 suffvision before it, exciu*ved below vein 7 and angled outwards 

 below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark terminal line with a silvery line 

 before it from apex to vein 2 defined on inner side by rufous 

 suffusion. Hind wing wliitish tinged with rufous, the terminal 

 area suffused with riifous ; a faint postmedial line ; cilia white 

 with a series of rufous strine from apex to vein 2 ; thi' imder- 



