534 NOCTUID.Ti. 



8366. Phytometra pulchrina. 



Noctua iota, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 282 (1802) ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 94 

 (1829) ; Diip. L6p. Fi-. vii. 2. p. 38, pi. 136. f.-2 (nee Linn.). 



Hodua 2^ii'lohri7ia, Haw. Prod. Lnp. Brit. p. 16 (1802) non descr. ; id. 

 Lep. Brit. p. 256 (1809) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. 



Plusia v-aureum, Guen. Noc*:. ii. p. 339 (1852). 



Plusia gammoides, Speyer, Stett. Eiit. Zeit. xxsvi. p. 103 (1875). 



Flusia percontatrix, Auriv. Nord. Fjar. p. 181 (1888). 



Plusia buratica, Staud. Iris, v. p. 370 (1892). 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; tegulae with wliitish tips ; 

 patagia with obhque whitish line at middle and whitish tips, the 

 scales of metathoracic crests tipped with whitish ; tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen red-brown with a greyish tinge, the crests rufous 

 and whitish at tips. Fore wing rufous mixed with pinkish and 

 slightly irrorated with blackish, the medial area below the cell and 

 the terminal area except to\v'ards tornus bright rufous ; a subbasal 

 silvery striga from costa defined on each side by bright rufous and 

 a silvery striga from cell with a black striga on its inner side ; 

 antemedial line silvery defined on. each side by bright rufous, 

 strongly bent inwards in cell and obliquely curved below the cell ; 

 orbicular rufous with ochreous annulus except below where it is 

 defined by silver, oblique elliptical ; a brilliant silver V-shaped 

 stigma below the cell with elliptical spot beyond its lower extremity ; 

 reniform defined by silver and its centre by brown, and with small 

 black spots in its extremities, its inner side oblique, its outer 

 strongly constricted at middle where there is some bright rufous 

 beyond it ; a rufous medial shade, oblique to lower angle of cell, 

 then inwardly oblique, postmedial line defined on each side by 

 rufous, pinkish to vein 2, then silverj^-white, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and sinuous, some pink jDoints beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line blackish and rather diffused on inner side except 

 towards costa and inner margin where it is red-brown defined on 

 outer side by pink, excurved at vein 7 and angled outwards 

 below vems 4 and 8 ; a pink line before termen. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with red-brown with a golden gloss, the terminal 

 area red-brown ; cilia white Avith slight brown spots near base to 

 vein 2, then a line ; the underside whitish irrorated Avith broAvn, the 

 costal area tinged with rufous, an obliqu.e brown striga on upper 

 discocellular and diffused medial, postmedial, and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. percontatrix. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell 

 forming a Y-mark. 



Ab. 2. qammoides. Fore wing more brown and violaceous grey 

 and with less rufous. 



Ab. 3. hurcetica. Similar to ab. 2 but fore wing with the 

 stigma Y-shaped. — E. Siberia. 



Hah. BEiTAiii, Leech Coll., Sligo (^Salvage) ; France ; 

 Germany, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Scandinavia ; Eussia, Livonia, Zeller 



