G'4'6 >octlii>j:. 



Ab. 2. insc7-ipta. Fore wing with tlie stij^iiv.i below the cell 

 absent or the V-niark much reduced and the spot beyond it absent. 



Ab. 3. ancora. Paler. 



Ab. 4. hultica. Darker. 



Ab. 5. omurica. Much darker. — E. Siberia. 



Ab. 6. monogramma. Similar to ab. 1 but darker. — W. 

 Turkestan. 



Hah. Britatx, Leech Coll. ; Fkaxce, Sand & Leech Colls. ; 

 Gekmaxy, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Huxuarv ; Switzer- 

 land ; Spaix, Leech Coll., Andalusia; N. Italy, Courmayeur 

 (Ilampson); Sca>-dinatia ; Kussta, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; 

 Armexta; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul; E. Siberia, 

 Amurland, Ussiu-i. Exp. 40-4u8 millim. The locality Surinam for 

 Stoll's figure is an error as also for the following ^\^m'e juventina. 



Larva. Meyr. JBi-it. Lep. p. 157; B.u-rett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 121, pi. 242. 

 f. 3 : Hffin. Raup. p. 13.o, pi. 3.5. f. 13. 



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, Senecio, etc. S-5. 



8368. Phytometra nigrisigna. 



rimia vigrisigna, Wlk. xii. 928 (18.i7); Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vi. p. 3r., 

 pi. IIU. f. 4; Hnipsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 570. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with purple-grey ; tegulse 

 purple-grey at tips ; the spurs and tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the crests rufous and purple- 

 grey at tips. Fore wing purple-grey in-orated and striated and 

 in parts suffused with brown, a patch of chocolate-brown suffusion 

 on medial area below the cell with some golden -cupreous before the 

 postmedial line in submedian interspace, the subterminal area 

 suffused with golden-cupreous; subbasal line silvery defined on 

 each side by chocolate-brown and with a black striga before it 

 below the cell, from costa to vein 1 ; anteniedial line hardly 

 traceable from costa to median ner\aire, exeurved below costa and 

 strongly incurved in cell, then silver defined on each side by 

 chocolate-brown and obliquely curved ; orbicular represented by a 

 minute silver lunule above median nervure with a black point in it ; 

 an oblique U-shaped silver stigma below the cell with an elliptical 

 spot beyond its lower extremity ; reniform defined at sides by silver, 

 its inner side oblique, its outer strongly constricted at middle with 

 a black spot beyond it and slight black marks in its extremities ; 

 an oblique brown shade from costa to lower angle of cell and traces 

 of an oblitiue slightly sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; 

 ])0stmediallme indistinctly double, red-brown, filled ui with silvery- 

 white below vein 3, bent outwards below costii, then oblique to 

 vein 2 with a slight whitish shade beyond it, then exeurved and 

 slightly angled inwards at submedian fold, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line chocolate-brown, exeurved 

 below costa and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark 



