55 i NOCTUTDX. 



suffused with brown ; both wings with postmedial line and faint 

 subtermiiial shade. 



Ilab. liussiA, St. Petersburg, Urals ; W. Sibeijia, 1 $ , Zeller 

 Coll., Altai; E. SiBEEiA, Auiurland, 1 d , Ussuri ; Japan, Tokio 

 {Maries), 1 $ type metabractea ; W. China, Nitou, 1 6 . Exp. 

 42-50 millim. 



8392. Phytometra semula. 



Foctua cemula, Scliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 314 (1776); Iliibn. Beitr. Sclniirtt. 



ii. 2, p. bl, pi. 3. f. T (1791) ; id. Eur. Sciimett., Noct. f. 280 ; Diip. Lep. 



Fr. vii. 2 p. 28, pi, 135. f. 2 ; Jolin, Rev. Russ. £ut. viii. p. 223, il'. 5, G ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 

 Noc/ua liniiina, l^'abr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 161 (1787). 

 Nociua chri/somclas, Eorkh. Eiu\ Sciimett. iv. p. 778 (1792). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the tegiilse except 

 at tips and the thoracic crest in front rufous ; pectus and legs 

 ochreous whitish tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous white 

 tinged with brown, the crests chocolate-brown and grey. Fore 

 wing whitish tinged with red-brown and irrorated wdth chocolate- 

 brown, the medial area below the cell deep chocolate-brown with 

 some fulvous before the postmedial line, the veins beyond the cell 

 with sliglit dark streaks, the terminal area whiter with a slight 

 silvery gloss ; a curved subbasal red-brown striga from costa defined 

 on outer side by whitish ; antemedial line represented by a double 

 oblique red-brown striga tilled in with whitish from costa and an 

 oblique chocolate-brown line defined on outer side by silver^^-white 

 froiu cell to inner margin ; orbicular represented by a minute silvery 

 streak defined below by red-brown above median nervure ; a large 

 oblique silvery stigma below the cell, its extremity slighth' bent 

 outwards and produced to a rounded point ; reniform with slight 

 silvery annulus defined by chocolate-brown and its lower ]K\rt filled 

 in with chocolate-brown, narrow, oblique, its outer edge indented at 

 middle ; an oblique chocolate-brown shade from costa to the reni- 

 form ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled in with silvery- 

 white towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line chocolate-brown, excurved 

 below vein 7, slight and oblique below discal fold, a redder brown 

 patch beyond it from just below costa to vein 6 ; a chocolate-brown 

 terminal line. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused with brown ; a dark bi'own terminal 

 line ; cilia ^a'llowish white tinged with rufous. Underside yellowish 

 white irrorated with brown ; fore wing with the disk suffused with 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing uniformly tinged with ])inkish, the stigma 

 below the cell with a faint golden tinge. — Carinthia. 



Hah. Gekmany, bavarian Alps ; AusTKiAN Ai-PS, Zeller and 

 Leech Colls., Carinthia, Frey Coll., Styria; Switzerlaxd; Arhenia, 

 Langodecki. Exp. 3S- -40 millim. 



