568 NOCTUIDiE. 



medial area, the postmedial area towards inner margin, and the 

 terminal area towards ajDex and at middle golden-rufous, the inner 

 area towards inner margin and the areas beyond the reniform and the 

 postmedial line tinged with pink ; subbasal line white defined on 

 inner side by mfous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line silvery- 

 white, angled outwards below costa and obliquely curved below the 

 cell; orbicular with silvery-white annulus, round ; a U-shaped silver}^- 

 ■white stigma below the cell ; reniform shghtly defined by silver}'-- 

 white and somewhat constricted at middle ; postmedial line rufous 

 filled in with white, excarved to vein 4, then incmwed ; subterminal 

 line white, curved, erect towards tornus ; a fine brown terminal line 

 with a white line before it ; ciha white and brown. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with purplish brown, the basal and costal areas 

 whiter ; a brown postmedial line with a whitish band beyond it ; a 

 fine brown terminal line with a Mdiitish line before it ; cilia white 

 tinged with brown ; the underside white tinged with rufous, a 

 "slight brown discoidal striga, rather diffused postmedial line, a faint 

 subterminal shade. 



Ab. 1. eve7'Sinanni. Paler ; fore wing with hardly any rufous or 

 pink suffusion. 



Ab. 2. lellieri. Fore wing with the stigma below the cell more 

 roimded. — Basses Alpes. 



Hah. S.E. Feance, Alps ; Aemekia ; W. Turkestan, Saraws- 

 chan, Issyk-Kul, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Tukkestai^, 

 Hi ; Mois^GOLiA, Urga ; E. Siberia, Dahuria, Kentei, 1 $ . Exp. 

 34 millim. 



8415. Phytometra renardi. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 17.) 



I'lusia renardi, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1844, iii. p. 595, pi. 15. ff. ■2a,b, & 1857, 

 i. p. 107 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 236. 



2 . Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale rufous ; pectus 

 and legs whitish ; abdomen whitish tinged wdth brown, the crests 

 pale rufous. Fore wing white tinged with pink, the medial area 

 except its outer part from costa to vein 4, the postmedial area 

 towards inner margin, a?nd the terminal area towards apex and at 

 middle golden-rufous, the outer part of postmedial area and the 

 rest of terminal area browner; subbasal line whitish defined on 

 inner side by rufous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line whitish, 

 angled outwards below costa, then oblique ; orbicular with silvery- 

 white annulus, round ; a silvery-white U-shaped stigma below the 

 cell ; reniform with faint pale annulus, its lower part defined by 

 silvery -white, very narrow and strongly constricted at middle ; 

 postmedial line double, red-brown filled in with pinkish white, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa, then oblique and very slightly 

 incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line white, curved, erect from 

 vein 2 to tornus ; a fine brown terminal line defined on inner side 

 by a white line ; cilia white slightly mixed mth brown. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with golden brown, the terminal area browner, 

 a rather diffused brown postmedial line ; a fine brown terminal line 



