564 NOCTUiD.i:. 



Urals ; Abmexia ; MoxGOLiA, Urga ; E. Siberia, Amurland, 

 Ussuri. Exj). 34-46 inillim. 



Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit. ^i. p. 108 ; Kirbv, Biilt. k Mollis Eur. p. 269 ; 

 niTin. Ilaup. p. l:i3, pi. 35. f. 6. 



Green with a broad dor.-^al dark stripe and lateral stripe. Food- 

 plant, Aconitum lycoctonum. 5-7. 



8408. Phytometra modesta. 



Noctua modesta, Hiibn. Beitr. Schinett. i. p. 3, pi. 1. f. A (1786); id. 



Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 354 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 2. p. 13, pi. 133. f. 2 ; 



Frr. Neiie Beitr. pi. 424 ; Friv. Magyar. Tudoni. Akad. Evkon. xi. iv. 



pi. 7. f. 7 (18f)6) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236. 

 NochM cuprea, Esp. Sehmett. iv. p. 199, pi. 110. f. 3 (1787). 

 Pbisia viridis, Staud. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 236 (1901). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grej- white ; tegulae oehreous 

 at base and with white tips ; prothorax with a white line ; fore 

 tibiffi rufous in front ; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, the 

 crests rufous tipped Avith white, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wins' olive-brown mixed with srrev-white. the veins finelv streaked 

 with white, the medial area suffused Avith pui-jilish red-brown 

 except the outer half below vein 4 ; subbasal line Avhite, oblique, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial hue double, silvery-white, angled 

 outwards below costa and inwards at median nervure, then oblique 

 and detined on outer side by chocolate-brown ; orbicular and the 

 stigma below the cell defined by silvery- white, oblique elliptical ; 

 reniform chocolate-brown slio^htlv defined bv white, small and 

 almost interrupted at middle ; an oblique whitish line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, bent out- 

 wards and almost obsolete below costa, then white, oblique and 

 slightly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line white, slightly 

 cm'ved, ending at tornus, a golden-brown patch before it at inner 

 margin and some golden-brown beyond it at apex and middle ; a 

 Avhite terminal line ; cilia with a white line at middle. Hind \\m^ 

 ])ale purplish red-brown ; cilia white at tips. Underside oehreous ; 

 fore Aving suffused with brown except costal area ; hind wing 

 irroratcd with brown, a diffused postmedial line and subterminal 

 shade. 



Ab. 1. viridis. Paler atid srreener; fore wins: ^vith hardlv anv 

 red-brown shadts. — Asia INIinor; Syria. 



Ilah. Fraxce, Paris ; Germaxt, Zeller Coll. ; Au.stria ; 

 HrxoART, Leech Coll. ; Switzehla^jd, Frey Coll. ; Russia, 

 Urals; Armenia ; Asia Mixor, Taurus; Syria, 3 $ ; W. Tvr- 

 KESTAX, Ala Tau; E. Siberia, Dalmria, Ussuri. E.vp. 30-40 

 millim 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 268 ; Ilffni. Eaup. p. 1.33, pi. 35. f. 7. 



Pale bluish grey irroratcd with black and white. Food-plant, 

 Pulmonaria oj/icinalis. 5-G. 



