514 NOCXL'IDJS. 



8339. Phytometra coiifusa. 



KocfiM cirmimflexa, Esp. Schinett. iy. pi. 111. ff. 5, 6 (1788) ; Hiibn, Enr. 



Sehuiett., Noct. f. 285; Dup. Lep. Fr. Tii. 2. p. 51, pi. Vdl, f. 4 ; Fri-. 



Neuo Beitr. pi. 118 (nee Linn.). 

 Ptusia confitsa, Steph. Spec. Brit. Anim. v. p. 291 (1850). 

 Plusia gitfta, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 346 (1852) ; Hiiipsn. Moths Ind, ii. p. 571 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 

 Plusia higutta, Stand. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 545 (1892). 



Head and thorax iiifous tinged with greyish, the tegulae, patagia, 

 and metathoracic crest grey at tips, the patagia with an obhque 

 grey line across them ; abdomen greyish suffused with red-brown, 

 the crests red-brown with some grey at tips. Fore wing greyish 

 suffused and iiTorated with red-brown and with a shght golden 

 gloss, the medial area below the cell deep rufous ; subba-sal Hne 

 greyish, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line greyish to 

 median nervure, then silvery-white, angled outwards below costa, 

 bent inwards in cell, then oblique ; an oblique brilliant silver stigma 

 below the cell angled inwards on median nervure and dilated at lower 

 extremity ; renifonn with very faint pale outline, constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial hne double, red-brown filled in with greyish, 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and minutely waved ; sub- 

 terminal hne indistinct, red-brown, excurved below vein 7, angled 

 inwards at disca:l fold and outwards below veins 4 and 8, a wedge- 

 shaped patch of deep rufous suffusion beyond it from apex to below 

 vein 3 ; a fine red-brown tenninal line defined on inner side by a 

 whitish hne from just below apex to below vein 3. Hind wing 

 oclireous suffused with I'ufous with a golden gloss, the tenninal area 

 rather darker ; cilia whitish with a red-brown hne near base ; the 

 underside grejash ochi^eous uTorated with red-bi"own and with faint 

 diffused postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma not angled inwards but with 

 minute silver streak before it on median nervure. 



Ab. 2. higutta. Fore whig v/ith the stign^a divided into two 

 spots. 



Ilah. France, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls. ; 

 Austria ; Hungary ; Spain ; Italy, Stresa {A. H. Jones) ; 

 Dalmatia ; Balkan States ; S. Russia, Sarepta, Leech Coll. ; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Lydia ; Syria ; Persia ; 

 W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk- 

 Kul; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siberia, Dahuria, Amurland, 2 J; 

 Japan, Yezo {Tryer~), 1 S , Hakodate {Andrews), 1 S , 1 $ ? 

 Tokio {JKaries), 1 J, 1 ?> Yokohama (Jonas. Mauley), 2 §; 

 CoREA, Gensan {Leecli), 1 $ ; Kashmir, Nubra Valley, Panomik 

 {Avin-]ff), 1 J ; Hab. i&n., 1 J ty|3e, Stainton Coll. Ex^J. 32- 

 40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Bntt. & Moths Enr. p. 270 ; Hffm. Eanp. p. 134, pi. 35. f. 11. 



Green or brownish ; dorsal line black edged with white ; subdorsal 

 stripe black edged with white, waved on abdominal somites ; lateral 

 stripe white. Food-plants : Achillea inillefolium and Matricaria 

 chamomiUa, 5 & 7. 



