506 NOCTUTD.E. 



to toriuis and with a cupreous red patch before it, a cupreous red 

 })atcli l^eyond it at middle; a fnie violaceous ■white line just before 

 termen ; cilia deeper fulvous red at apex, middle, and tornus. Hind 

 winp^ yellowish tinged with red, especially on terminal area ; cilia 

 with a tine pale line at base and whitish tips ; the underside yellow. 



Ab. italica. Fore wing slightly paler ; hind wing 3'ellow. 



Hdh. Italy, Gi-an Sasso ; liussiA, Sarejjta, Zeller, Frey, Leech, 

 and D"Emmich Colls. ; Asia Mixok, Pontus, Tam-us; W. Tlbkk- 

 STAK, Ala Tau. Exp. 32-34^ millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Mntbs E(ir p. 268 ; Ilffin. Eaup. p. 1^3. 



Bluish green variegated with yellowish. Food-plant, Hindera 

 t)'itasj)is. 



*8411. Phytometra iuconspicua. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 15.) 



Pliisia inconspicua, Gracser, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p. 315 (1892); John, 

 Her. Soc. Eut. Koss. xxxix. p. 253, pi. xir. f". 23 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 236. 



Head pale rufous ; tegulae pale rufous, whitish at tips ; thorax 

 brownish white, the patagia at base and metathoracic crest at sides 

 pale rufous ; jiectus pale rufous and white ; legs whitish UTorated 

 with brown ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the crests and 

 anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged \\nth olive-brown, 

 the medial area rufous ; a curved subbasal white striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line white, angled outwards below costa and inwards in 

 cell, then oblique ; orbicular defined by red-brown, rounded ; a 

 rather reniform stigma defined by red-brown below the cell ; reniform 

 defined by red- brown, oblique, oblong; postmedial line white, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then mcurved ; 

 subterminal line wliite defined on inner side by pale brown and 

 Avith rufous patch before it on inner ai-ea, slightly excurved to 

 vein 3, then incurved; a brown terminal line; cilia nifous. Hind 

 wing reddish brown, the cilia rufous ; the underside A\hite tinged 

 Avith bro'vn, a diffused brown postmedial line and faint subterminal 

 shade. 



Hah. W. TuEKESTAX, Issyk-KiU in Coll. Piingeler, Alexander 

 Mts. Eccp. 4SL millun. 



*8412. Phytometra generosa. 



Plusiaqenerosa, Staud. Iris, xii. p. S80, pi. 6. f. 8 (1900); id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 236. 



S ■ Head and thomx yellow-brown ; palpi, pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen grey-l)rown. Fore wing ]>ale retl-lu'own. the area from 

 before the antemedial to the medial line and tlie terminal area 

 olive-brown, with a golden gloss beyond the middle ; subbasal line 

 double, brownish, fi'om costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 brown, slightly excurved below costa and submedian fold ; orbicular 

 defined by brown, round ; the stigma below the cell defined by 

 brown, elliptical ; reniform very faintly defined and with an olive- 



