178 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTOHY. 



GENUS PHYTOMETRA. 



Phytometra^ Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 254 (1809) ; Stephens 

 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 121 (1830); Guenee, Spec. 

 Gen. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 297 (1852); Walker, List Lepid. 

 Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1466 (1858). 



Prothymia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 282 (1822?). 



In its larval characters this genus comes nearer to the last 

 family than to the American genera with which Guenee 

 associates it. The types of Haworth's genus Phytometra were 

 probably intended to be species of Plusia, but Plusia may 

 have the priority ; and as Phytometra viridaria does not con- 

 tradict the characters which Haworth assigned to his genus (as 

 is the case with many of the species which he included in it), 

 it seems better to retain Haworth's name as restricted by 

 Stephens, though Hiibner's later name, Prothymia^ was uni- 

 typical, which Phytometra certainly was not. 



THE SMALL PURPLE-BARRED. PHYTOMETRA VIRIDARIA. 



Geometra viridaria^ Clerck, Icones, pi. 9, fig. 12 (1759). 

 Phalana laaata, Scopoli, Ent. Cam. p. 363, no. 503 (1763). 

 Noctua spadiceata, Hufnagel, Berl. Mag. iii. no. 87 (1767). 

 Phalcena purpurata^ Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 637, no. 91 



(1775). 



Noctua anea, Denis & Schiffermiiller, Syst. Verz. Schmett. 



Wien. p. 85, no. 6 (1776) ; Hiibner, Beitr. Schmett. i. (3), 



p. 10, Taf. i, fig. D (1788); id. Eur. Schmett. iv. fig. 350 



(1804?). 

 Noctua latruncula, Esper, Schmett. iv. (2) i, p. 557, Taf. 163, 



fig. 2 (1792?). 

 Phytometra <znea^ Haworth, Lepid. Brit. p. 266, no. 34 



(1809); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 121 (1830); 



