576 NOCTuiD.?;. 



medial line dark brown, angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique 

 and excurved at middle and below submedian fold ; subterminal 

 line only defined by brown suffusion with a slight golden gloss on 

 its inner side, oblique, arising from termen below apex, slightly 

 angled outwards below veins 4 and 3 and excurved at submedian 

 fold ; a diffused golden-brown line before termen from the sub- 

 terminal line to above vein 3. Hind wing ochreous white suffused 

 with red-brown especially on terminal area ; a sinuous bro\yn post- 

 medial line and a fine terminal line with ochreous white lunulas 

 before it from apex to vein 2 ; the underside pale yellow slightly 

 irrorated with brown ; fore wing suffused with brown except the 

 costal and subterminal areas ; hind wing with brown postmedial 

 line exciu'ved to vein 4, then incurved. 



Ab. 1. lieti. Tore wing Avithout the velvety brown shade on 

 inner area. — W. China. 



Hah. E. Siberia, TJssuri; Japan, Yesso {Fryer), 4 S type 

 humeral is ; W. China, Ta-chien-lu. Exp. 52 millim. 



8426. Phytometra chryson. 



NocUia cJinjson, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 446, pi. 141. f. 2 (1789) ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 237. 

 Noctua orichalcea, Hiibn. Beitr, ii. 1, p. 28, pi. 4. f. W (1790); id. Eur. 



Schmelt., Noct. f. 278 ; Dup. Lep. Er. vii. 2. p. 18, pi. 135. f. 1 ; Steph. 



111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. iii. p. 105 ; Err. Beitr. ii. pi. 59 (nee Eabi-.). 

 Noctua mrijera, Sowerbj, Brit. Misc. pi. 29 (1805). 



Head and tegulse yellow tinged -with rufous, the latter red- 

 brown at tips ; thorax dark red- brown mixed with purplish grey ; 

 pectus and legs yellow tinged with rufous, the fore and mid tibiae 

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

 crests and anal tuft at extremity deep red-brown. Fore wing 

 purple-grey tinged with brown, the medial and postmedial areas 

 below the cell and vein 3 dark red-brown with a golden gloss, 

 the veins with slight dark streaks, a metallic golden patch between 

 veins 7 and 3 from the medial to the subterminal lines ; a curved 

 red-browh subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line red- brown, 

 excurved below costa and oblique below submedian fold ; reniform 

 a small lunule faintly defined by red-brown ; a rather diffused red- 

 brown postmedial line, excurved beyond upper angle of cell, then 

 oblique and sinuous ; postmedial line red-brown with some 

 violaceous white on it at inner margin, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved at vein 7 and middle, then oblique and excurved 

 at vein 1 ; subterminal line brownish, arising below costa and 

 somewhat dentate to vein 2 ; cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing 

 yellowish suffused with rufous especially on terminal area ; an 

 indistinct postmedial red-brown line. Underside yellow slightly 

 irrorated with brown ; fore wing suffused with dark brown except 

 the costal and terminal areas ; hind wmg with dark discoidal point, 

 postmedial line excurved beloAV costa, and subterminal shade towards 

 tornus. 



