508 NOCTIJIDiE. 



ventral surface yellow tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright 

 rufous, the basal costal area, the inner area beyond the antemedial 

 line and the postmedial area towards tornus golden irrorated with 

 rufous ; a double rufous subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, red-brown, excurved below costa and inwardly oblique 

 below the cell ; a rather pear-shaped golden-silvery stigma below 

 middle of cell and extending into the cell, defined by blackish, with 

 a similar rather oblique golden-silvery spot beyond its lower 

 extremity ; a black point at upper angle of cell ; a slight rufous 

 medial line, very oblique from costa to beyond lower angle of cell, 

 then very oblique inwardly and slightly sinuous ; postmedial line 

 rufous, excurved below costa, angled inwards at discal fold, ex- 

 curved at vein 4, then oblique, double and sinuous towards inner 

 margin ; a golden-silvery wedge-shaped mark below vein 6 from 

 the postmedial to the subterminal line, which is rufous, oblique and 

 diffused to discal fold, then slighter and somewhat sinuous, defined 

 on inner side by golden-yellow towards apex ; a rufous line before 

 termen and a terminal line ; cilia with a pinkish tinge. Hind 

 wing ochreous whitish suffused with brown ; a fiine dark terminal 

 line ; cilia purplish pink ; the underside white irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area, and terminal area except towards tornvis tinged 

 with rufous, a small brown discoidal spot and postmedial line 

 excvuwed below costa. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the silvery spots below the cell confluent. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Fbance ; Gebmant, Zeller, Frey, 

 & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; Spain, 

 Catalonia, ? Castile ; Balkan States ; Scandinavia ; Eussia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai, 

 Issyk-Kul; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Turkestan, Hi; E. Siberia, 

 Dahuria, Amitrland. Exp. 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 114, p]. 242. 

 f. 1 ; Hoffm. Raup. p. 134, pi. 35. f. 10. 



Grreen ; dorsal line darker defi.ned by white ; subdorsal and 

 lateral lines white; spiracular line yellow, head .green. Food- 

 plants: Grasses, Carex, Typlia, 8parganmm ramosum, Iris pseucl- 

 acorus, SuYidi Alisma plantago. 5-7. 



8332. Phytometra festata. (Plate CCXXXVII. fig. 32.) 



Fhisia festata, Grses. Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 262 (1889); Snell. Tijd. 

 V. Ent. xliii. Yerslaj^, p. 46 ; John, Hor. Soc. Eut. Ross, sxsix. p. 253, 

 pi. xiv. f. 24; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with rufous, the patagia except 

 at base and the metathorax red-brown ; abdomen ochreous tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing yellowish suffused with rufous, the veins 

 streaked with brown, the basal costal area, the inner area beyond 

 the antemedial line, and the terminal area golden irrorated with 

 rufous ; a curved red-brown subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial 

 line double, red-brown, angled outwards below costa and at median 

 nervm'e, then inwardly oblique ; a rather pear-shaped golden-silvery 



