PHYTOMETBA. 5G9 



dutined on Inner side by a wliite line ; cilia white ; the underside 

 white tinged with brown, the postmedial line more distinct and 

 curved, a faint subterminal shade. 



Mab. Mongolia, Urga, 1 $ ; E. Sibekia, Dalmria. Ex^). 30 

 niillim. 



8416. Phytometra consona. 



Noctua consona, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 163 (1787); Hiibn. Beitr. Schmetl. 

 iii. p. 15, pi. 2. f. K ; id. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 273 ; Dup. L^p. Fr. 

 vii. 2. p. 1.'3, pi. 133. f. 3 ; Frr. JS'eiie Beitr. iii. pi. 214 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 236. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with greA^ the head darker ; 

 antennae white ; tegulse ochreous at base and wdth white tips ; 

 patagia with white lines at middle and tips , pectus and legs 

 wdiitish suffused with red-brown ; abdomen w^hitish tinged with 

 red-brown, the crests chocolate-brown. Fore Aving olive-brown 

 mixed Avith grcA'-white, the basal half of medial area suffused with 

 chocolate-brown, the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with 

 whitish ; a slight oblique white subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; 

 antemedial line double, silvery-white, indistinct towards costa, 

 angled outwards below costa and inwards on median nervure, then 

 oblique and the outer line produced to a slight sti'eak on vein 1 ; 

 orbicular defined at sides by silvery-white, narrow, oblique and 

 rather sinuous; a U-shaped silvery- white stigma below the cell; 

 reniform with very slight silvery annulus, oblique and very strongly 

 consti'icted at middle ; postmedial line double, silvery-whitish, 

 arising close to the subterminal line, slightly excurved below costa, 

 incurved below discal fold ; subterminal line silvery-whitish, in- 

 curved below vein 6 and ending at tornus, a chocolate-red patch 

 before it at inner margin, a chocolate-i'ed patch beyond it at mindle 

 intersected by a short white streak on vein 4, veins 3 and 2 also with 

 white streaks ; cilia with a fine whitish line towards tips. Hind 

 Aving ochreous white suffused with brown especially on temiinal 

 area ; an indistinct brown postmedial line defined on outer side by 

 whitish ; an indistinct sinuous whitish subterminal line ending on 

 termen at submedian fold ; a fine whitish terminal line ; cilia white 

 tinged with rufous and with a series of brown spots at base ; the 

 underside ochreous, a slight brown discoidal point, oblique diffused 

 postmedial line, and traces of a subterminal shade. 



Hah. Germany, Saxony, Zeller, Leech, and Sand Colls. ; 

 ArsTEiA, Tirol, Frey Coll. ; Hungary ; Bulgaria ; S. Russia ; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus. Exp. 28-38 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Mollis Eur. y. 268 ; HflTm. Raup. p. 133, pi. 35. f. 5. 



Green, the subdorsal area whitish, a whitish lateral stripe ; head 

 brown. Food-plant, Lycopsis jmUa. 5, 7, 8. 



