554 NOCTUIDJE. 



suffused with brown ; both wmgs with postmedial line and faint 

 subterminal shade. 



Hah. EussiA, St. Petersburg, Urals ; W. Siberia, 1 5 , Zeller 

 Coll., Altai; E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 c?,Ussuri; Japan, Tokio 

 {Maries), .1 $ type metahractea ; W. China, Nitou, 1 cJ . Exp. 

 42-50 millim. 



8392. Phytometra semula. 



Nochta (smula, Scbiff. VVien. Verz. p. 314 (1776): Hiibn. Beitr. Sclimett. 



ii. 2, p. 51, pi. 3. f. T (1791) ; id. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 280 ; Dup. Lep. 



Fi-. Tii. 2 p. 28, pi, 135. f. 2 ; Juhji, Eey. Eiiss. Ent. viii. p. 223, tf. 5, 6 ; 



Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 

 Noctua lumina, Eabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 161 (1787). 

 NociiM chrysomelas, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 778 (1792). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey, the tegulse except 

 at tips and the thoracic crest in front rufous ; pectus and legs 

 ochreous whitish tinged with rufous ; abdomen ochreous white 

 tinged with brown, the crests chocolate-brown and grey. Fore 

 wing whitish tinged with red-brown and irrorated with chocolate- 

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

 some fulvous before the postmedial line, the veins beyond the cell 

 with slight dark streaks, the terminal area whiter vpith a slight 

 silvery gloss ; a curved subbasal red-brown striga from costa defined 

 on outer side by whitish ; antemedial line represented by a double 

 oblique red-brown striga filled in with whitish from costa and an 

 oblique chocolate -brown line defined on outer side by silvery-white 

 from cell to inner margin ; orbicular represented by a minute silvery 

 streak defined below by red-brown above median nervure ; a large 

 oblique silvery stigma below the cell, its extremity slightly bent 

 outwards and produced to a rounded point ; renif orm with slight 

 silvery annulus defined by chocolate-brown and its lower part filled 

 in with chocolate-brown, narrow, oblique, its outer edge indented at 

 middle ; an oblique chocolate-brown shade from costa to the reni- 

 form ; postmedial line double, chocolate-brown filled in with silvery- 

 white towards inner margin, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line chocolate-brown, excurved 

 below vein 7, slight and oblique below discal fold, a redder brown 

 patch beyond it from just below costa to vein 6 ; a chocolate-brown 

 terminal line. Hind vdng whitish tinged with hrown, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused with brown ; a dark brown terminal 

 line ; cilia yellowish white tinged with rufous. Underside yellowish 

 white irrorated with brown ; fore wing with the disk suffused vdth 

 brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing uniformly tinged with pinkish, the stigma 

 helow the cell with a faint golden tinge. — Carinthia. 



Hah. Germany, Bavarian Alps ; Austrian Alps, Zeller and 

 Leech Colls., Carinthia, Frey Coll., Styria; Switzerland; Armenia, 

 Langodecki. Exj). 38-40 millim. 



