532 N0CTUIDJ5. 



into an elliptical spot ; reniform slightly defined by silver, strongly 

 constricted at middle and with slight black marks in its extremities ; 

 a faint brownish medial shade, oblique below the cell ; postmedial 

 line double, rufous filled in with greyish, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique, at vein 2 slightly bent outwards then somewhat 

 sinuous and filled in with silver ; subterminal line greyish defined 

 on inner side by golden-brown suffusion, excurved at vein 7 and 

 slightly angled outwards below veins 3 and 2 ; a slight ruf ovis shade 

 before termen from apex to vein 3 and a fine terminal dark line ; 

 cilia with slight brown spots at the veins from apex to vein 3. 

 Hind wing ochreous tinged with golden-brown, the terminal area 

 rather browner ; a faint brownish postmedial line ; cilia whitish 

 tinged with rufous and intersected with rufous from sij)ex to vein 3 ; 

 the underside ochreous tinged with rufous, a fine brown postiliedial 

 line excm'ved below costa, and subterminal shade. 



Sab. Laplakd, Leech Coll. ; Finland ; Russia, Urals ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia, Urga ; E. Siberia, Dahiu-ia, 

 Amurland. JEAy. 42 millim. 



8364. Phytometra mandarina, 



Noctua viandarina. Fit. Neue Beitr. v. p. 164, pi. 479. f. 4 (Jan. 1840) ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. 

 Phisia interscalaris, Herr.-Scliaff. Ear. Pchinett., Noct. f. 510 (1850). 

 Plusia typinota, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 201 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B.M. 



ii. p. 34, pi. 31. f. 10. 

 Plusia obscura, Obenh. 'tt. Ent. x. p. 27, pi. 3. f. 13 (1884). 



Head and thorax bright rufous, the tegulte, patagia, and meta- 

 thoracic crest tij)ped with whitish and the patagia with oblique 

 whitish line at middle ; antennae whitish ; tarsi ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen rufous. Fore wang bright rufous mixed with 

 purplish grey and striated with red-brown ; subbasal line silver 

 defined on each side by rufous, sinuous, from costa to veui 1 ; ante- 

 miedial line silver defined on each side by rufous, angled outwards 

 below costa, strongly excurved in cell, then oblique and sinuous ; 

 orbicular defined iDy silver, oblique and somewhat quadrate, con- 

 joined to an oblique silver stigma below the cell, its tail dilated 

 into an elliptical sj)ot ; renifoiin defined by silver and with slight 

 black marks in its extremities, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge 

 strongly constricted at middle ; a slight red-brown medial shade, 

 oblique to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique and angled 

 inwards at submedian fold ; postmedial line double, rufous filled in 

 with silver, bent outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly 

 sinuous, angled inwards at vein 2 ; subterminal line brown with rufous 

 suffusion before it, excurved below vein 7 and angled oiitwards 

 below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark terminal line with a silvery line 

 before it from apex to vein 2 defined on inner side by rufous 

 suffusion. Hind vnng whitish tinged vdth rufous, the terminal 

 area suffused with rufous ; a faint postmedial line ; cilia white 

 with a series of rufovis strise from apex to vein 2 ; the under- 



