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at tips. Hind wing white suffused with pale cupreous brown 

 except the costal area ; an indistinct whitish postmedial line ; cilia 

 white with rufous line near base ; the underside white tinged with 

 brown, the terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hab. Khuedistain" ; Syeia, Antioch ; Mesopotamia, 1 $ . 

 Exp. 26 millim. 



8407. Phytometra variabilis. 



Noctiia variabilis, Filler, Iter. Slav. Prov. p. 70, pi. 6. f. 3 (1783) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236. 

 Noctiia iUustris, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 164 (1787) ; Hubn. Eur, Scbmett., 



Noct. f. 274 ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 66 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 2. p. 10, pi. 133. f. 1. 

 Koctua cuprea, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 199, pi. 110. f. 4 (1787). 

 Plusia sergia, Obertb. Et. Ent. x. p. 27, pi. 3. f. 9 (1884). 

 Plusia uralensis, Staud. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 538 (1892), nee Ev. 

 Plusia onongolica, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236 (1901). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-brown mixed with grey-white ; 

 the tegulse yellowish except at tips, which are white ; patagia with 

 oblique white line at middle and white tips. Fore wing olive- 

 brown mixed with greyish, the veins slightly streaked with whitish ; 

 subbasal line whitish, obliquely curved, from costa to submedian 

 fold ; the base of inner margin pink ; antemedial line whitish, 

 angled outwards and rather diffused below costa, angled inwards on 

 median nervure, then oblique defined on outer side by chocolate- 

 brown and with a pink line before it ; orbicular defined by silvery- 

 white, oblique elliptical ; the stigma below the cell defined by 

 silver}'- white, oblique conical ; reniform with slight white outline, 

 oblique, its outer edge indented at middle, some pink suffusion 

 beyond it ; a red-brown medial shade from costa to median nervure 

 and a diffused oblique line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with white, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then oblique and defined on outer side by pink, 

 slightly incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line white, defined on 

 inner side by red-brown, curved, slightly excui'ved below submedian 

 fold and with a golden-brown patch before it, some golden-brown 

 beyond it at apex and middle ; a white terminal line ; cilia with a 

 white line at middle. Hind wing pale purplish red-brown ; cilia 

 white at tips and with a slight whitish line at base. Underside 

 pale yellow irrorated with brown ; fore wing suffused with brown 

 except the costal and terminal areas ; hind wing with diffused 

 brown postmedial line and subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. sergia. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 filled in with pink except at costa, the medial area suff^ised with 

 pink below and beyond the cell. — Germany ; E. Siberia. 



Ab. 2. onongolica. Smaller and paler ; fore wing with hardly 

 any pink. — Carinthia, Urga. 



Hah. S. Bettain; Ieeland ; Fean-ce, Leech Coll., Pyrenees; 

 S. Geemaktt, Zeller and Leech Colls ; Austeia, Carinthia, ZeUer 

 Coll. ; Htjngaet, Leech Coll. ; Switzeeland, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. ; Italy ; Eumelia ; Finland ; Russia, St. Petersburg, 



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