PHTTOMETfi.V. 589 



Ab. 2. gammina. Much smaller ; fore wing with the stigtua 

 larger. — Asia Minor, Syria. 



Ilah. Britaix, Leech Coll. ; Fraxce, Sand Coll., Hyeres 

 (Yerhiny) ; Gekmaxy, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; Austhia ; 

 HuxGABY ; SwiTZERLA>D, Frev CoU. ; Spain ; Italy, Capri 

 (C. S. Browne), Catania, Zeller Coll.; Sicily, Zeller Coll.; 

 Algeria, Tkout (JVahingham), 1 S , Hammaiu-es-Salahin {JVul- 

 sin(/liam), 1 S ; Morocco, Tangier {Leech), 1 6 ; Madeira 

 {Wall a st on), 4 6 ; Canaries {Leech), 1 6 , TenerifEe, Sta. Cruz 

 {W(thinghcnn), 1 $; Dalmatia ; GREECE; Balkan States; 

 ScAXDiXAYiA, Zeller Coll. ; ErssiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Peters- 

 burg, Zeller Coll., S. Russia {Grnm-Grishmaillo) ; Armenia; 

 Asia Minor (Lederer), 1 6 , Amanus Mts., Eybes, 1 $ ; Syria, 

 1 6 , Leech Coll., Beyrut (Jessuj)), 1 6 ; Cyprus (Glaszner), 1 d ; 

 Egypt, Gizeh {Flower), 2 ^ ; Persian Gulf, Fao {Gumming), 

 1 5 ; W. Turkestan ; AV. Siberia ; E. Turkestan ; E. Siberia, 

 Amurland, 1 $ ; Japan ; W. China, Chow-pin-sa, 1 $ . Exp. 

 40— iS minim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 158; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. ll'o, pi. 243. 

 f. 1 : Hffm. Raup. p. 135, pi. 35. f. 14. 



Green ; dorsal line double, whitish ; subdorsal and lateral lines 

 Avhitish ; spiracular line 3-ellowish ; dots whitish. Food-plants : 

 TJrlica, Sonchus, Geranium, Lamium, etc. 6—4. 



8371. Phytonietra pseudogamma. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 24.) 



Flusia pseudogamma, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 203 (1875) ; Ottolengui, 

 J. N.Y. Eiit. Soc. s. pi. ix. f. 8 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 251. 



P/«««rw.s.?M,H. Edw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 170 (1886); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. •J52. 



Tlnsia gamma, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 251 (nee Linn.). 



Head and thorax chocolate-brown mixed with purple-grey, the 

 teguho and metathoracic crest with some rufous ; antennae ringed 

 Avith black towards base ; the spurs and tarsi brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen grey suffused with red-brown, the crests chocolate- 

 brown with purple-grey at tips. Fore wing glossy purple-grey 

 suffused in pai-ts with chocolate-brown and sparsely irrorated with 

 black, the medial area with a patch of deep chocolate-brown below 

 the cell with some golden-cupreous before the postmedial line in 

 submedian interspace, the subterminal area suffused \\\\\\ chocolate- 

 brown with a golden-cupreous gloss ; sul)basal line silvery defined 

 on each side by chocolate-brown with a black point before it above 

 subcostal nervure and striga below the cell, exeurved below costa 

 and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line silvery defined on 

 each side by chocolate-brown, angled ovitwards below costa, strongly 

 bent inwards in cell, then oblique and exeurved above vein 1 ; 

 orbicular with silvery outline, oblicpie elliptical ; an oblique silver 

 Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail dilated into a spot ; reniform 

 with silvery outline, its centre defined by blackish on outer side, its 

 inner edge oblique, its outer .strongly constricted at middle ; an 



