PHYTOMETEA. 535 



Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll. ; W. Tuhkestan, Tarbagatai Mts. ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 c? , Kentei, 1 $ . 

 Ex2). 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 158; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 118, pi. 242. 

 f. 2. 



Pale green ; dorsal line darker edged with white ; subdorsal and 

 lateral lines white ; spiracular line yellowish ; dots whitish ; head 

 pale green. Pood-plants, Lamium, Zfrtica, Lonicera, etc. 8-5. 



8367. Phytometra iota. 



Noctua iota, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. s. p. 613 (1758) ; Es]!. gchmett. iv. pi. 113 



f. 3 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 2. p. 38, pi. 136. f. 3 ; Herr.-Schiiff. Eur! 



Schmett., Noct. f. 265 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. 

 Noctua prutea, StoU, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 244, pi. 100. f. M (1782). 

 Noctua inscripta, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 229, pi. 113. f. 6 (1787). 

 Plusia percontationis, Treit. Eur. Solunett. v. 3, p. 184 (1826) ; Stepli. 111. 



Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 101. 

 Noctua ancora, Frr. Neue Beitr. i. p. 89, pi. 47 (1833). 

 Flusia bartholomceii, Men. Bull. Phys., Math. Acad. St. Petersb. 1859, 



p. 315; id. En. Mus. Petr. iii. p. 1.56, pi. 16. f. 9. 

 Plusia baltica, Speyer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxvi. p. 103 (1875). 

 Flusia monogramma,A\]}i\\. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 171. 

 Plusia amurica, St&ud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 549 (1892). 



Head and thorax bright i*uf ous, the patagia and metathorax deep 

 rufous mixed with some greyish ; anteniiEe brown, ringed Avith 

 whitish towards base ; abdomen bright rufous, the crests deeper 

 rufous, the scales tipped with greyish. Pore wing pink slightly 

 irrorated and striated with brown, the basal costal area, medial 

 area below the cell, and subterminal area deep rufous ; subbasal 

 line greyish, excurved below costa and ending at submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line whitish defined on each side by red-brown, strongly 

 bent inwards in cell and obliquely curved below the cell ; a brilliant 

 silver V-shaped stigma below the cell Avith elliptical spot beyond its 

 lower extremit}'- ; reniform with slight greyish outline and minute 

 black points in its upper and lower extremities, strongly constricted 

 at middle ; an oblique rufous shade from middle of costa to lower 

 angle of cell; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with 

 pinkish to vein 2, then by greyish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and almost straight ; subterminal line placed on the rufous 

 shade, defined on outer side by pink towards costa and inner margin, 

 blackish betv/een veins 7 and 4, excurved below vein 7 and above 

 and below vein 3 ; a fine rufous terminal line. Hind wing pinkish 

 suffused with red-broAvn, the terminal area red-brown ; a sinuous 

 brown postmedial line, a fine dark termhial line defined on inner 

 side by greyish to vein 2 ; the underside pink irrorated with brown, 

 diffused oblique somcAvhat sinuous brown medial, postmedial, and 

 subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. percontationis. Pore Aving Avith the stigma beloAv the 

 cell forming a Y-^ark. 



