PHYTOMETEA. 539 



Ab. 2. gammiiia. Much smaller ; fore wing with the stigma 

 larger.- — Asia Minor, Syria. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand Coll., Hyeres 

 {Yerhiiry') ; Gebmant, Zeller & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; 

 Hungary ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy, Capri 

 {G. S. Browne), Catania, Zeller Coll. ; Sicily, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Algeria, Tkout {Walsinghmn), 1 J, Hammam-es-Salahin (jVal- 

 singham), 1 6 ; Morocco, Tangier {Leech), 1 S ; Madeira 

 {Wollaston), 4 6 ; Canaries {Leech), 1 6 , Teneriffe, Sta. Cruz 

 ( Wahingham), 1 $ ; Dalmatia ; Gtreece ; Balkan States ; 

 Scandinavia, Zeller Coll. ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Peters- 

 burg, Zeller Coll., S. Russia {Grum-Grishmaillo); Armenia; 

 Asia Minor {Lederer), 1 S , Amanus Mts., Eybes, 1 $ ; Syria, 

 1 (S , Leech Coll., Beyrut {Jessup), 1 <S ; Cyprus {Glaszner), 1 S ; 

 Egypt, Grizeh {Flower), 2 5 ; Persian Gulf, Fao {Cumming), 

 1 2 ; W. Turkestan ; W.Siberia; E.Turkestan; E. Siberia, 

 Amurland, 1 $ ; Japan ; W. China, Chow-pin-sa, 1 $ . JSx}). 

 40-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 158; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 125, pi. 243. 

 f. 1 ; HfFm. Raup. p. 135, pi. 35. f. 14. 



Green ; dorsal line double, whitish ; subdorsal and lateral lines 

 whitish ; spiracidar line yellowish ; dots whitish. Food-plants : 

 TJrfica, Sonchiis, Geranium, Lammm, etc. 6-4. 



8371. Phytometra pseudogamma. (Plate CCXXXVIII. fig. 24.) 



Phisia pseudogamma, Grote, Can. Ent. vii. p. 203 (1875) ; Ottolengiii, 

 J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. ix. f. 8 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 251. 



P/«S'/arasse«,H. Eclw. Ent. Am. ii. p. 170 (1886); S'mitb, Cat. Noct. N. 

 Am. p. 252. 



I'lusia gamma, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 251 (nee Linn.). 



Head and thorax chocolate -brown mixed with purple-grey, the 

 tegulfe and metathoracic crest with some rufous ; antennas ringed 

 with black tovvaixls base ; the spurs and tarsi brown ringed with 

 white ; abdomen gi-ey suffused with red-brown, the crests chocolate- 

 brown with purple-grey at tips. Fore wing glossy purple-grey 

 suffused in parts with chocolate-brown and sparsely irrorated with 

 black, the medial area wdth a patch of deep chocolate-brown below 

 the cell with some golden-cupreous before the postmedial line in 

 submedian inters]3ace, the subterminal area suffused with chocolate- 

 brown with a golden-cupreous gloss ; subbasal line silvery defined 

 on each side by chocolate-brown with a black point before it above 

 subcostal nervm-e and striga below the cell, excui'ved below costa 

 and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial fine silvery defined on 

 each side by chocolate-brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly 

 bent inwards in cell, then oblique and excurved above vein 1 ; 

 orbicular with silvery outline, oblique elliptical ; an oblique silver 

 Y -shaped stigma below the cell, its tail dilated into a spot ; renif orm 

 with silvery outline, its centre defined by blackish on outer side, its 

 inner edge oblique, its outer strongly constricted at middle ; an 



