536 KOCTUIDJE. .■ 



Ab. 2. inscri'pta. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell 

 absent or the V-mark much reduced and the spot beyond it absent, 



Ab. 3. ancora. Paler. 



Ab. 4. haltica. Darker. 



Ab. 5. amurica. Much darker. — E. Siberia. 



Ab. 6. monogramma. Similar to ab. 1 but darker. — W. 

 Turkestan. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Fhakce, Sand & Leech Colls. ; 

 Germany, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzer- 

 land ; Spain, Leech Coll., Andalusia ; N. Italy, Courmayeur 

 (^llampsori); Scandinatia ; Russia^ Livonia, Zeller Coll.; 

 Armenia; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk-Kul; E. Siberia, 

 Ainurland, Ussuri. Hxp. 40-48 millim. The locality Surinam for 

 Stoll's figure is an error as also for the following 'ii^wxQ juventina. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 121, pi. 242. 

 f. 3 ; HfTin. Raup. p. 135, pi. 35. f. 13. 



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

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

 pale green. Food-plants, Lamiwm, JJrtica, Senecio, etc. 8-5. 



8368. Pliytometra nigrisigna. 



. Flusia nigrisigna, Wlk. xii. 928 (1857) ; Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vi. p. 36, 

 pi. 110. f. 4; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. p. 570. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with purple-grey ; tegulse 

 purple-grey at tips ; the spurs and tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with rufous, the crests rufous and purple- 

 grey at tips. Fore wing piirple-grey irrorated and striated and 

 in parts suffused with brown, a patch of chocolate-brown suffusion 

 on medial area below the cell with some golden-cupreous before the 

 postmedial line in submedian interspace, the subterminal area 

 suffused with golden-cu^Dreous ; subbasal line silvery defined on 

 each side by chocolate-brown and with a black striga before it 

 below the cell, from eosta to vein 1 ; antemedial line hardly 

 traceable from costa to median nervure, excurved below costa and 

 strongly incurved in cell, then silver defined on each side by 

 chocolate-brown and obliquely curved ; orbicular represented by a 

 minute silver lunule above median nervure with a black point in it ; 

 an oblique U-shaped silver stigma below the cell with an elliptical 

 spot bejrond its lower extremity ; renif orm defined at sides by silver, 

 its inner side oblique, its outer strongly constricted at middle with 

 a black spot beyond it and slight black marks in its extremities ; 

 an oblique brown shade from costa to lower angle of cell and traces 

 of an oblique slightly sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, red-brown, filled in with silvery- 

 white below vein 3, bent outwards below costa, then oblique to 

 vein 2 with a slight Avhitish shade beyond it, then excurved and 

 slightly angled inwards at submedian fold, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line chocolate-brown, excurved 

 below costa and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a fine dark 



