PHYXOMETRA. 535 



Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai Mts. ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 6 , Kentei, 1 2 ■ 

 Exp. 40— il millim. 



Larva. Moyr. Brit. Lep. p. 158; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 118, pi. 242. 

 f. 2. 



Pale green ; dorsal line darker edged with white ; subdorsal and 

 lateral lines white ; spiracular line yellowish ; dots whitish ; head 

 pale green. Food-plants, Lamium, Urtica., Lonicera, etc. 8-5. 



8367. Phytometra iota. 



Noctua iota, Linn. Sj-st. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758) ; E«i). Schmett. iv. pi. 113. 



f. 3; Diip. Lep. Fr. yii. 2. p. 38, pi. 136. f. 3; Herr.-Scbdff. Eur. 



Sehraett., Noct. f. 265 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. jial. p. 238. 

 Noctua prvtea, Stoll, Tap. Exot. iv. p. 244, pi. lOi). f. M (1782). 

 JSoctua inscrijj/a, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 229, pi. 1 13. f. 6 (1787). 

 I'lusia percontationis, Trait. Eur. Schmett. v. 3, p. 184 (1826) ; Steph. 111. 



Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 101. 

 Noctua ancora, Frr. Neue Beitr. i. p. 89, pi. 47 (1833). 

 Plasia hartJwhmmi, Men. Bull. Phvs., Malh. Acad. St. Petersb. 18.'i9, 



p. 315; id. En. Mus. Petr. iii. p. ir;6, pi. 16. f. 9. 

 Thisia baltica, Speyer, Stett. Ent, Zeit. xxxvi. p. 103 (1875). 

 I'lusia monogramma, Al\>\\. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 171. 

 Plusia amurica, Stand. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 549 (1892). 



Head and thorax bright inifous, the patagia and metathorax deep 

 rnfous mixed with some greyish ; antennte brown, ringed with 

 whitish towards base ; abdomen bright rufous, the crests deeper 

 i-ufous, the scales tipped with greyisli. Fore wing pink sliglitly 

 irrorated and striated with brown, the basal costal area, medial 

 area below the cell, and subterminal area deep rufous ; subbasal 

 line greyish, excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line whitish defined on each side by red-brown, strongly 

 bent inwards in cell and obliquely curved below the cell; a brilliant 

 silver V-shaped stigma below the cell with elli]:)tical sjx)t be^'ond its 

 lower extremity ; reniform with slight greyish outline and minute 

 black points in its upper and lower extremities, strongly constricted 

 at middle ; an oblique rufous shade from middle of costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with 

 pinkish to vein 2, then by greyish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and almost straight; subterminal line placed on the rufotis 

 shade, defined on outer side by pink towards costa and inner margin, 

 blackish between veins 7 and 4, excurved below vein 7 and above 

 and below vein 3 ; a fine rufoiis terminal line. Hind wing pinkish 

 suffused with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown ; a sinuous 

 brown postmedial line, a fine dark terminal line defined on inner 

 side by grejdsh to vein 2 ; the underside pink irrorated with brown, 

 diffused oblique somewhat sinuous brown medial, postmedial, and 

 subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. percontationis. Fore wing with tlie stigma below the 

 cell forming a Y-«iai"k- 



