564 ]srocTuiDiE. 



Urals ; Armenia ; Mongolia, Urga ; E. Sibeeia, Amurland, 

 Ussuri. Exj). 34-46 millim. 



Larva. Barrett, Lep. Brit ti. p. 108 ; Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 269 ; 

 Hffin. Eaup. p. 1:33, pi. 36. f. 6. 



Green witli a broad dorsal dark stripe and lateral stripe. Food- 

 plant, Aconiticm lycoctonum. 5-7. 



8408. Phytometra modesta. 



Noctua modesta, Hiibn. Beitr. Schmett. i. p. 3, pi. 1. f. A (1786); ifl. 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 354 ; Dup. Lep. Er. vii. 2. p. 13, pi. 133. f. 2 ; 



Err. Nene Beitr. pi. 424 ; Friv. Magyar. Tudoin. Akad. Evkon. xi. iv. 



pi. 7. f. 7 (1866) ; Statid. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236. 

 Nociiia cuprea, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 199, pi. 110. f. 3 (1787). 

 Phisia viridis, Staud. Cat. Lep.' pal. p. 236 (1901). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey-Avhite ; teguliE oehreous 

 at base and with white tips ; prothorax with a white line ; fore 

 tibiaj rufous in front ; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, the 

 crests rufous tipped with white, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing olive-brown mixed with grey-white, the veins finely streaked 

 with white, the medial area suifused with pui-plish red-brown 

 except the outer half below vein 4 ; subbasal line white, oblique, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, silvery-white, angled 

 outwards below costa and inwards at median nervure, then oblique 

 and defined on outer side by chocolate-brown ; orbicular and the 

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

 reniform chocolate-brown slightly defined by white, small and 

 almost interrupted at middle ; an oblique whitish line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, bent out- 

 wai'ds and almost obsolete below costa, then white, oblique and 

 slightly incmwed below vein 4 ; subterminal line white, slightly 

 curved, ending at tornus, a golden-brown patch before it at inner 

 margin and 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 ; ciha white at tips. Underside oehreous ; 

 fore wing suffused with brown except costal area ; hind mng 

 irrorated wdth brown, a diffused postmedial line and subterminal 

 shade. 



Ab. 1. viridis. Paler and greener; fore Aving with hardly any 

 red-brown shades. — Asia Minor; Syria. 



Hah. Feance, Paris ; Geemany, Zeller Coll. ; Austeia ; 

 HuNGAET, Leech Coll. ; Switzeeland, Frey Coll. ; Efssia, 

 Urals ; Aemenia ; Asia Minoe, Taurus ; Steia, 3 $ ; W. Tue- 

 KESTAN, Ala Tau ; E. Sieeeia, Dahuria, Ussuri. Exp. 30-40 

 millim 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 26S ; Ilffm. Raup. p. 133, pi. 35. f. 7. 



Pale bluish grey irrorated with black and white. Food-plant, 

 Pttlmonaria officinalis. 5-6. 



