538 NOCTUID.I:. 



8370. Phytometra gamma. 



Noctua gamma, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. .513 (1758) ; Esp. Schmetf, iv. 

 pi. cxi. f. 1 ; Hlibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 28.3 ; Diip Lep.Er. vii. 2. p. 41, 

 pi. 136. f. 4 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. iii. p. 103 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. 

 pi. 544 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. 



Plusia ffammitia, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238 (1901). 



Plusia alejnca, Nitsche, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Ixi. p. 62 (1911). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey, the tegulse 

 with dark Kne at middle and tipped with grey ; antennse ringed 

 blackish and white toAvards base ; tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdo- 

 men grey tinged with red-brown, the crests red-brown at tips. 

 Tore wing grey with a golden cupreous gloss and irrorated and 

 striated with brown, the medial area with a patch of golden-brown 

 suffusion below the cell ; subbasal line silvery defined on each side 

 by golden brown towards costa, with a black point before it above 

 subcostal nervure and a black striga below the cell, sinuous, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line silvery defined on each side by 

 golden brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly incm-ved in 

 cell, then oblique and sinuous ; orbicular with silvery annulus, 

 oblique, elliptical ; an oblique silver Y-shaped stigma below the 

 cell, its tail somewhat dilated at extremity ; reniform Avith silvery 

 oiTtline and small blackish marks in its extremities, its inner edge 



Fig. 126. — Phytometra gamma, (^ . \. 



oblic|ue, its outer strong!}^ constricted at middle with a small 

 blackish mark beyond it ; postmedial line golden brown filled in 

 with silvery white, bent outv/ards below costa, then oblique and 

 very slightly sinuous to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then 

 exciu'ved and waved, some whitish suffusion beyond it on costal 

 half and some whitish points on costa ; sub terminal line brown "with 

 golden-brown suffusion before it, excurved below vein 7 and angled 

 outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; a slight white line before termen 

 from just below costa to vein 2 with golden -brown suffusion before 

 it ; the termen whitish expanding into a triangular patch below 

 vein 2 and with a fine waved brown terminal line. Hind wing 

 white tinged with red-brown, the terminal area dark brown with a 

 cupreous gloss ; ciha white with a series of small brown spots from 

 apex to vein 2 ; the underside white irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused brown, a faint oblique postmedial line. 

 Ab. 1. alejjica. Fore wing paler. 



