566 NOCTUTDiE. 



to tornus and with a cupreous red patch before it, a cupreous red 

 patch bejond it at middle ; a fine violaceous white line just before 

 termen ; cilia deeper fulvous red at apex, middle, and tornus. Hind 

 wing yellowish tinged with red, especially on terminal area ; cilia 

 with a fine pale line at base and whitish tips ; the underside yellow. 



Ab. italica. Fore wing slightly paler ; hind wing yellow. 



Hah. Italy, Gran Sasso ; Russia, Sarepta, Zeller, Frey, Leech, 

 and D'Emmich Colls. ; Asia Minoe, Pontus, Taurus ; W. Tueke- 

 STAN, Ala Tau. Exp. 32-34 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eutt. & Moths Eur p. 268 ; Hffin. Eaiip. p. 133. 



Bluish green variegated with yellowish. Food-plant, Hindera 

 tritaspis. 



*8411. Phytometra inconspicua. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 15.) 



Pl'usia inconspicua, Grreser, Berl. Ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p. 315 (1892); Johu, 

 Hor. Soc. Ent Eoss. xxxix. p. 253, pi. xiv. f. 23 ; Staud. Cat. Lep, pal. 

 p. 23G. 



Head pale rufous ; tegulse pale rufous, whitish at tips ; thorax 

 brownish white, the patagia at base and metathoracic crest at sides 

 pale rufous ; pectus pale rufous and white ; legs whitish irrorated 

 with bi'own ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the crests and 

 anal tuft pale rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged with olive-brown, 

 the medial area rufous ; a curved subbasal white striga from costa ; 

 antemedial line white, angled outwards below costa and inwards in 

 cell, then oblique ; orbicular defined by red-brown, rounded ; a 

 rather reniform stigma defined by red-brown below the cell ; reniform 

 defined by red- brown, oblique, oblong; postmedial line white, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then incuiwed ; 

 subterminal line white defined on inner side by pale brown and 

 with rufous patch before it on inner area, slightly excurved to 

 vein 3, then incurved ; a brown teriiiinal line ; cilia rufous. Hind 

 wing reddish brown, the cilia rufous ; the underside white tinged 

 with brown, a diffused brown postmedial line and faint subterminal 

 shade. 



Sab. W. TuEKESTAN, Issyk-Kul in Coll. Piingeler, Alexander 

 Mts. JExp. 42 millim. 



*8412. Phytometra generosa. 



Flusia generosa, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 380, pi. 6. f. 8 (1900) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 236. 



S . Head and thorax yellow-brown ; palpi, pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale red-brown, the area from 

 before the antemedial to the medial line and the terminal area 

 olive-brown, with a golden gloss beyond the middle ; subbasal line 

 double, brownish, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, 

 brown, slightly excurved below costa and submedian fold ; orbicular 

 defined by brown, round ; the stigma below the cell defined by 

 brown, elliptical ; reniform very faintly defined and with an olive- 



