PHTTOMETEA. 527 



terminal areas ; hind wing without brown at base and the terminal 

 band obsolescent. 



Hab. W. Siberia, Altai ; Tibet, Amdo ; Mongolia, Urga ; 

 E. Siberia, Dahm-ia, Kentei, 1 d' , 1 § , Ammdand; Kamtschatka. 

 Exj). 34 millim. 



8357. Phytometra v-argenteum. 



Noctua v-argenteum, Esp. Sclimett. iv. pi. 188. f. 3 (1795); Stauci. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 237. 

 Nodua mya, Hiibn. Eur. Schmet.t., Noct. f. 275 (1802) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 2. 



p. 33, pi. 135. f. 3 ; Frr. Beitr. iii. p. 40, pi. 107. f. 1 ; Heri-.-Schaff. Eui-. 



Sclimett., Noct. f. 205. 



Head and thorax bright rufous, some of the scales tipped with 

 whitish ; palpi darker brown with whitish hues in front and behind ; 

 antennse with white ring at extremity of basal joint, the shaft 

 whitish in front ; tegulae with white lines at middle and tips with 

 darker brown between them ; patagia with obhque white bar and 

 bar at middle defining a triangular dark patch ; pectus and legs 

 whitish tinged with rufous ; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, 

 the crests bright rufous. Fore wing pink suftused in parts with 

 red-brown, especially on discal area ; an oblique black streak from 

 base of costa ; subbasal line double, the inner line black, the outer 

 red-brown, filled in with yellow and defined on outer side by yellow, 

 sinvious, from costa to submedian fold where there is a slight yellow 

 streak beyond it defined above and below by blackish ; a slight 

 black streak on inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 double, the inner line red-brown, the outer blackish, angled outwards 

 below costa, inwards at median nervure and outwards just above 

 and below vein 1 ; orbicular represented by a small U-shaped silvery 

 mark defined by blackish and with two yeUow points above it ; a 

 larger similar U -shaped mark below it with an elliptical spot 

 beyond its lower part ; reniform faintly defined by yellowish and 

 its lower part by three silvery points, its upper part very narrow and 

 obhque ; an oblique brown bar from costa to the reniform, an oblique 

 black streak beyond upper extremity of reniform, then an oblique 

 sinuous brov>fn line to inner margin ; postmedial line double, red- 

 brown, strongly excurved below costa, then oblique and sinuous to 

 inner margin, the inner line with some black on it, defined on 

 outer side b}^ a yellowish line which is well separated at costa ; 

 subterminal line yellow defined on inner side by black, excurved 

 below vein 7 and waved below vein 5 ; a yellow line before term en ; 

 cilia pink at base, rufous at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 red-brown with a faint golden gloss ; cilia rufous ; the underside 

 white tinged with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule, oblique 

 rather diffused medial and postmedial lines, a faint subterminal 

 shade. 



Hah. Austria, Tirol, Carniola ; Switzerland, Valais, Zeller, 

 Frey, & Leech Colls., Zermatt (A. H. Jones) ; Italy, Piedmont, 

 Leech Coll. Exp. 36-42 milHm. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 268 ; Hffra. Eatip p. 1,^4. 

 • Dull green with yellowish lines. Food-plants : Isopyrum 

 thalictroides and flowers of Tkalicfrum foetidiim. 6. 



