578 xocxriT).!:. 



8428. Phytometra zosimi. 



Noctua zosimi, Hiibn. Eur. Sclunett., Noct. f. 6ol (1822) ; Diip. Li'p. Fr., 

 Suppl. iv. p. 232, pi. 70. f. 4 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 440. f. 1 ; Herr.- 

 Scliiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 208 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with some chocolate-brown ; 

 frons rufous ; tegulse yellowish at base and white at tips, the 

 jiatagia and thoracic crest white at tips; fore tibia? chocolate- 

 brown ; abdomen white tinged with brown, the crests chocolate- 

 brown. Fore wing whitish tinged with red-brown especially on 

 costal area and in end of cell, the area below and beyond the cell 

 to the postmedial line suffused with brilliant greenish gold ; sub- 

 basal line slight, brown, sinuous, fi'om eosta to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line broAvn, excurved to median nervure, where it is reti'acted, then 

 oblique with some cupreous l)ro\vn before it and slightly reti-acted 

 to inner margin ; orbicular defined by brown, round ; the stigma 

 below the cell defined by brown, U-shaped ; reniform defined liy 

 bi*owTi and with brown sb-iga in centre; postmedial line brown, 

 obliquely excurved to below vein 3, then incurved ^Wth some 

 cupreous brown before it and a golden patch tinged with cupreous 

 bi'own beyond it ; the veins of terminal area streaked with brown ; 

 subterminal line red-brown, almost obsolete except from costa 

 to vein 6 and slightly excurved below costa ; a fine red-broA\n 

 terminal line ; cilia intersectetl with red-brown at the veins. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with red-brown especially on terminal area ; a 

 ratlier diffused brown postmedial line ; cilia brownish white inter- 

 sected with brown at the veins. Underside ochreous white ; fore 

 wing suffused with brown except at costa ; hind wing Avith the 

 postmedial line more distinct. 



Hah. ? Austria, Galicia ; Italy, Piedmont ; ? Rumelia ; 

 ErssiA, Urals, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 $ ; 

 £. Siberia, AiTiurland, 1 J , 8 $ , Ussuri ; Japax, Hakodate, 1 $ , 

 Yokohama {Fryer), 2 d , 1 $ . Ex})- 36-46 millim. 



8429. Phytometra chrysitis. 



Noctua chn/sitis, Linn. Sjst. Nat. eri. x. p. 513 (17.')S) ; Esp. Schmett. ir. 



pi. 109. ff 1-.') ; Sepp, Ins. i. i fi) p. 7, pi. 1. ff. 7-12 ; Hiibn. Eur. Si-lii.iett., 



Noct. ff. 272. Gr>2-3; Donovan. Bri^ Ins. iv. pi. 137; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vii.2. p.21,pl.l.34. f. 3; Frr. Beitr. pi. 89 ; Stcph. 111. Brit. Eiit, Haust. 



iii. p. 105 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 

 IHusia nadeja, Oberlb. Et. Ent. v. p. 84, pi. 3. f. 10 (18S0). 

 Flimajavcta, Tutt, Brit. Noct. iv. p. 2.5 (1892). 

 Plusia di.pinicfa, Scluiltz, Illus'r. Zeitscli. Ent. t. p. 349 (1900). 

 P/usia sciiitilknis, Scliultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (UK)7). 

 Plusia aurea, Iluene ? ined., Scbultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purplish gi'ey, the vertex 

 of head, tegulie towards tips, and thoracic crest in front rufous ; 

 teguue at tips and an ol)li(]ue line across patagia white ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with red-brown, the crests dark brown tipped with 

 whitn. Fore wing ivd-livown suffused with purplish grey and 



