)7S KOCTUiD/i;. 



8428. Phytometra zosimi. 



Noctua zosimi, Hubn. Eur. Scliraett., Noct. f. 651 (1822) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iv. p. 232, pi. 70. f. 4 ; Fvr. Neue Beitr. pi. 449. f. 1 ; Heir.- 

 Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 208 ; Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with some chocolate-broM^n ; 

 fi'ons rufous ; tegulse yellowish at base and white at tips, the 

 patagia and thoracic crest white at tips; fore tibiae chocolate- 

 brown ; abdomen white tinged with brown, the crests chocolate- 

 brown. Fore wing whitish tinged with red-brown especially on 

 costal area and in end of cell, the area below and beyond the cell 

 to the postmedial line suffused with brilliant greenish gold ; sub- 

 basal line slight, brown, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line brown, excurved to median nervure, where it is retracted, then 

 oblique with some cupreous brown before it and slightly retracted 

 to inner margin ; orbicular defined by broAvn, round ; the stigma 

 below the cell defined by brown, U-shaped; reniform defined by 

 brown and with brown striga in centre ; postmedial line brown, 

 obliquely excurved to below vein 3, then incurved with some 

 cupreous brown before it and a golden patch tinged with cupreous 

 brown beyond it ; the veins of terminal area streaked with brown ; 

 subterminal line red-brown, almost obsolete except from costa 

 to vein 6 and slightly excurved belo^v eosta ; a fine red-brown 

 terminal line ; cilia intersected with red-brown at the veins. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with red-brown especially on terminal area ; a 

 rather diffused brow^n postmedial line ; cilia brownish white inter- 

 sected with brow'U at the veins. Underside ochreous white ; fore 

 wing suffused with brown except at costa ; hind Aving with the 

 postmedial line more distinct. 



Hah. ? Austria, Galieia ; Itata', Piedmont ; ? Rumelia ; 

 Russia, Urals, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 § ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 J , 3 $ , Ussuri; Japak, Hakodate, 1 5 , 

 Yokohama (Fn/rr), 2 c? , 1 $ . JExj). 36-46 millim. 



8429. Phytometra chrysitis. 



Noctua ch-i/sUis, Linn. Sjsf-.. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 109. ff. 1-5 ; Sepp, Ins. i. (5) p. 7, pi. 1. ff. 7-12 ; Hiibn. Eur. gchniett., 



Noct. S. 272, 6fi2-3; Donovan, Brit. Ins. iv. pi. 137; Oup. Lep. Fr. 



vii. 2. p. 21, pi. 134. f. 3 ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 89 ; Stcpli. 111. Brit. Eut., Hausfc. 



iii. p. 105 ; Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 237. 

 Plusia iiadeja, Obertli. Et. Ent. v. p. 84, pi. 3. f. 10 (1880). 

 Flusiajimcta, Tutt, Brit. Noct. iv. p. 25 (1892). 

 Phisin difjuncta, Scbultz, Illustr. Zeitscb. Ent. v. p. 349 (1900). 

 Plusia scintillans, Scbultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). 

 Phisia aurea, Huene ? ined., Scbultz, Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purjolish grey, the vertex 

 of head, tegulae towards tips, and thoracic crest in front rufous ; 

 tegulse at tips and an oblique line across patagia white ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with red-brown, the crests dai-k brown lipped Avith 

 white. Fore wing red-bi-own suffused Avith purplish grey and 



