470 NOCTUID.^. 



{Tweedie), 1 2 "type litcmilis ; Cape Yeede Is., St. Vincent {J. J. 

 Walker), 3 c? , 2 $ ; Beitain ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germ an Y 

 Zeller Coll. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; Spain, Barce- 

 lona, Fray Coll., Andalusia, Leech Coll. ; Italy, Naples, ZeUer Coll., 

 Capri (C. S. Broivne) ; Algeria ; Canaries, Teneriffe, Guimar 

 (Walslnffham), 1 $ ;? Lapland, Leech Coll.; Armenia; Asia 

 Minor {Lederer), 1 $ , Pontus, Amanus Mts., Eybiz, 1 ? ; Cyprus 

 {Glaszner), 1 6 , Nicosia {BucJcnill), 2 2 ; Syria ; Egypt, Dabod 

 (Wood-Jones), 1 J ; Br. E. Africa, Eb Urra (Betton), 1 S ; 

 Transtaal, Pretoria (Distant), 1 d" ; Basutoland, Caledon E. 

 (Crawshay), 1 $; Cape Colony, Cape Town (Lightfoot), 1 c? ; 

 Aden (Yerhtiry), 1 c5' ; Persian Gulp, Fao (Gumming), 1 $, 

 Mekran Coast, Ormara (Cm wM«m_9'), 1 2; W.Turkestan; Japan, 

 Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 1 d, 2 2; C. China, Chekiang 

 (Fryer), 1 2 ; Punjab, Dharmsala (HocMng), 1 o , Cambellpur 

 (Yerlury), 1 2 , Wtizeerabad (Hearsey), 1 cJ , 1 2 ij^Q^ extrahens 

 and signijicans ; Bengal, Pusa (Lefroy), 1 2 i Bombay, Kutch, 

 1 (S , Mhow (Forsayetli), 1 S ; Madras, Bangalore (Watson), 

 1 d , 1 2 . -^^J?. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Mollis Eur. p. 271 ; Hffiii. Eaup. p. 135. 



Yellowish green with white lateral line. Food-plants : Nettle, 

 Solanum, etc. 



8293. Phytometra sutsidens. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 11.) 



Plusia subsidens, Wlk. xv. 1787 (1858). 



2 . Head and thorax rufous, the tegulse and patagia whitish at 

 tips, the scales of metathoracic crest whitish at tips ; pectus and 

 legs ochreous and rufous, the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous suffused with rufous, the crests darker. Fore 

 wing rufous suffused with golden cupreous, the medial area with a 

 deep rufous patch below the cell ; subbasal line silvery defined on 

 each side by deep rufous, from costa to vein 1, a rufous patch 

 beyond it below the cell with a slight silver streak in submedian 

 fold ; antemedial line silver, angled outwards below costa, incurved 

 in cell, inwardly oblique below the cell ; an oblique silver U-shaped 

 stigma below the cell with a spot beyond its lower extremity ; reni- 

 form very faintly defined by brown and somewhat constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line indistinctly doiible, red-brownn, filled in 

 with silver at inner margin, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, slightly excmwed at middle and excurved below submedian 

 fold, some whitish points bej^ond it on costa ; sub terminal line in- 

 distinct, red-brown, excurved below vein 7, angled inwards at discal 

 fold, excurved below veins 4 and 3 and submedian fold, a deep 

 rufous shade beyond it from apex to vein 3 ; a whitish line before 

 termen from apex to vein 2 ; a fine dark terminal line. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with cupreous red-brown, the terminal area 



