o3i iXOCTUlU.T. 



83GG. Phytometra pulchrina. 



JS'oc/ua iota, TTiibn. Eur. Schmelt., Noct. f. 282 (1802) ; Fit. Beitr. pi. 04 

 (1829) ; Dup. Ldp. Fr. vii. 2. p. 38, pi. l.'3li. f. 2 (nee Linn.). 



Noctua pulchrina, Haw. Prod. Lnp. ijrit. p. 16 (18U2) non descr. ; id. 

 Lcp. Brit. p. 256 (1809) ; SUuid. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 2;J8. 



Plunia v-aureum, Guen. Noc*-. ii. p. 339 (1852). 



Flusia gammoides, Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxsvi. p. 103 (1875). 



Plusia j)ercontairix, Auriv. Noid. Fjiir. p. 181 (1888). 



Flusia burcBtica, Stand. Iris, v. p. 370 (1892). 



Head and thorax briglit rufous ; tegulaj witli ^vhitish tips ; 

 patagia with ohhque whitish line at middle and whitish ti])s, the 

 scales of meta thoracic crests tipped with whitish ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen red-brown with a greyish tinge, the crests rufous 

 and whitish at tips. Fore wing rufous mixed with pinkish and 

 slightly irrorated with blackish, the medial area below the cell and 

 the terminal area except towards tornus bright rufous ; a subbasal 

 silvery striga from costa defined on each side by bright rufous and 

 a silvery striga from cell Avith a black striga on its inner side ; 

 antemedial line silvery defined on each side by bright rufous, 

 strongly bent inwards in cell and obliquely curved below the cell ; 

 orbicular rufous with ochreous annulus except below where it is 

 defined by silver, oblique elliptical ; a brilliant silver V-shaped 

 stigma below the cell with elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ; 

 reniform defined by silver and its centre hj brown, and with small 

 black sjiots in its extremities, its inner side oblique, its outer 

 strongly constricted at middle where ther>? is some bright rufous 

 beyond it; a rufous medial shade, oblique to lower angle of cell, 

 then inwardly oblique, postmedial line defined oh each side by 

 rufous, pinkish to vein 2, then silvery-white, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and sinuous, some pink points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line blackish and rather diifused on inner side except 

 towards costa and inner margin Avhere it is red-brown defined on 

 outer side by pink, excurved at vein 7 and angled outwards 

 below A'ems 4 and 3 ; a pink line before ternien. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with red-brown with a golden gloss, the terminal 

 area red-brown ; cilia white with slight brown spots near base to 

 vein 2, then a line ; the underside wliitish irrorated with brown, the 

 costal area tinged Avith rufous, an oblique brown striga on upper 

 diseocellular and diffused medial, jjostmedial, and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. percontatrix. Fore wing Avith the si^igma beloAv the cell 

 forming a Y-mark. 



Ab. 2. (/annnoules. Fore Aving more brown and violaceous grey 

 and Avith less rufous. 



Ab. 3. hurcetica. Similar to ab. 2 but fore Aving Avith the 

 stigma Y-shaped.— E. Siberia. 



iSab. Britain, Leech Coll., Sligo {Sal-voffe) ; FRAifCE ; 

 Germaxy, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls. ; Aisteia ; Hujvgatjy ; 

 SwTTZKRl.AND, Frcv Coll.; ScAxniNAVi \ ; KussTA, Livonia, Zeller 



