PHTTOMETEA. 50? 



a8. Fore wing witJi pale cupreous red 

 paleh at middle of termen. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial 

 line strongly incurved below 



vein 4 hcrrichi. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial 

 line slightly incurved below 



vein 4 renardi. 



b^. Fore wing with dee2D chocolate-brown 



patch at middle of termen consona. 



W. Fore wing with the ground-colour 



white albavitta, 



b*. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved 



to lower angle of cell ampla. 



h^. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled out- 

 wards to below apex deaurata. 



k^. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell oblong, 



rather inwardly oblique and with dark outline... csrcoides. 

 P. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell forming 



a bilobate mark .slightly defined by grey-white... masoni. 

 m^. Fore wing without stigma below the cell. 



a^ . Fore wing with tlie postmedial line angled out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique and sinuous 

 to inner margin. 

 «■*. Fore wing with the ground-colour olive- 

 brown peponis. 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish 



pink hebetata. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved 

 below costa, at middle, and below submedian 



fold (srea. 



7i". Fore wing with the stigma below the cell repre- 

 sented by afaintdark bar leoiiina. 



; Ji. Fore wing with large golden patch beyond the cell . chryson. 

 b. Fore wing with the postmedial area golden. 



fti. Fore wing with the metallic areas golden-green. 

 a". Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, oblique to vein 7, then inwardly 



oblique balluca, 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line obliquely ex- 

 curved from costa to below vein 3, then incurved . sosimi. 

 c". Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved below 



costa, then inwardly oblique and sinuous chrysitis. 



b^. Fore wing with the metallic areas golden without 

 green tinge. 

 a^. Fore wing with the golden area extending into 

 middle of cell and to inner margin on postmedial 



and terminal areas florina. 



b". Fore wing with the golden area not extending into 

 middle of cell or to inner margin on postmedial 

 and terminal areas orichalcea. 



8331. Phytometra festucaB. 



Nocfua festucce, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758); Esp. Schmeti. iv. 

 pi. 113. f. 6; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 277; Dup, Lep. Fr. vii. 2, 

 p. 30, pi. 135. f. 4; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 107; Frr. 

 Beitr. pi. 100 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with yellow ; abdomen 

 whitish, the crests riifous, the extremity tinged with rufous, the 



