538 xocTUiD.i:. 



8370. Phytometra gamma. 



Noctua gamma, Linn. Sjst. "Nat. ed. x. p. TAZ (1758); Esp. Schmeti, ir, 

 pi. cxi". f. 1 ; Iliibn. Em-. Sfbmptt., Noct. f. 26^ ; Diip Lap. Fr. vii. '_'. p. 41 , 

 pi. 136. f. 4 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Jlaust. iii. p. 103 ; Fit. >'eue Eeitr. 

 pi. :AA ■ Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. 



Pludagammina, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238 (1901). 



Pliisia alepica, Nitsche, A'erb. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Ixi. p. 62 (1911). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey, the tegiilae 

 -with dark line at middle and tipped with grey ; antenn<e ringed 

 blackish and white towards base ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdo- 

 men grey tinged with red-bro\ra, the crests red-brown at tips. 

 Fore mng grey Avith a golden cujireous gloss and irrorated and 

 striated with brown, the medial area with a patch of golden-brown 

 suffusion below the cell ; subbasal line silvery defined on each side 

 by golden browai towards costa, with a black point before it above 

 subcostal nerAiire and a black striga below the cell, sinuous, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line silvery defined on each side by 

 golden brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly incurved in 

 cell, then oblique and sinuous ; orbicidar with silvery annidus, 

 oblique, elliptical ; an oblique silver Y-shaped stigma below the 

 cell, its tail somewhat dilated at extremity ; reniform with silvery 

 outline and small blackish marks in its extremities, its' inner edge 



Fig. 120. — rhytomdra gamma, (^ . \. 



oblique, its outer strongly constricted at middle -with a small 

 l)lackish mark beyond it ; postmedial line golden brown filled in 

 with silvery white, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and 

 very slightly sinuous to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then 

 excurved and waved, some Avhitish suffusion beyond it on costal 

 half and some whitish points on costa ; subterminal line brown with 

 golden-brown suffusion before it, excurved below vein 7 and angled 

 outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a slight white line before termen 

 from iust below costa to vein 2 with golden-brown suffusion before 

 it ; the tenuen whitish expanding into a triangular patch below 

 vein 2 and with a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind wing 

 white tinged with red-brown, the terminal area dark brown with a 

 cupreous gloss ; cilia white with a series of small brown spots from 

 ai)ex to vein 2 ; the underside Avhite irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused brown, a faint oblique postmedial line. 

 Ab. 1. ah'pica. Fore wing ]ialer. 



