552 NOCTUIDiE. 



below the cell chocolate-brown ; orbicular hardly traceable except 

 below where it is defined by a slight curved silvery streak, oblique 

 elliptical ; a large metallic golden stigma below the cell, its inner 

 extremity angled inwards on median nerrure and its lower extremity 

 produced to a rounded lobe to near the postmedial line ; renif orm 

 faintly defined by red-brown, its inner edge straight, its outer 

 slightly indented at middle ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 red-brown, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, very slightly 

 waved and excurved below vein 2 ; an oblique chocolate-brown 

 shade fi'om apex to below vein 5 ; subterminal line chocolate-brown, 

 excvirved below costa and angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 ; the 

 termen pinkish with a fine brown terminal line ; cilia with a fine 

 pale line at middle. Hind wing yellowish suffused with red-brown, 

 the terminal area red-brown ; cilia yellowish tinged with red- 

 brown. Underside j^ellow tinged with red ; fore wing with the 

 disk suffused with brown ; hind wing irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal striga, diffused postmedial line, and faint subterminal 

 shade. 



Ab, 1. Fore wing wdth the stigma slightly produced at lower 

 extremity. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Feance, Sand Coll. ; GEEMAisnr, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Austeia ; Hungaet ; Switzeeland, Frey 

 and Leech Colls. ; Italt, Courmayeur (Hamjjson) ; Rumelia ; 

 Scandinavia; Russia, Leech Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., 

 Urals ; Armenia ; W. Tuekestan, Issyk-Kul ; W. Sieeeia, 1 6 , 

 Altai ; E. TuEKESTAN, Thian Shan. Mrp. 40-50 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 157; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. Ill, pi. 241. 

 f. 3. 



Pale green ; dorsal and spiracular lines white ; head marked with 

 brown. Food-plants, Etij^atoriiim and TJrtica. 



8390. Phytometra metallica. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 4.) 



Flusia braciea, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 72 (1874), nee 



Scbiff. 

 Fl'usia onetallica, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soe. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 311 (1876); 



Ottolengui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soe. x. p. 63, pi. vii. f. 7; Smitli, Cat. Noct. 



K Am. p. 248. 

 Tlu&ia scapularis, H. Edw. Papilio, ii. p. 127 (1882); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 2.53. 

 Phisia lenzii, French, Can. Ent. xxi. p. 161 (1889) ; Smith. Cat. Noct. N. 



Am. p. 263. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some grey ; palpi, tegulte 

 at base, and thoracic crest in front bright rufous ; pectus and legs 

 rufous ; abdomen yellowish tinged with rufous, the crests rufous 

 tipped with grey. Fore Aving purplish pink slightly striated with 

 brown, the medial area below the cell chocolate-brown with some 

 bright rufous beyond and below the stigma, the subterminal area 

 with a golden gloss except at inner margin, the veins beyond the 

 cell with slight dark streaks ; antemedial line represented by an 



