594 NOCiriDiE. 



gi'eyer ; a dark brown streak above base of vein 1 and a strealc on 

 inner margin except towards base ; antemedial line dark broAvn, 

 strongly excui-ved below costa and submedian fold and slightly 

 incurved at vein 1; orbicular and reniform white with greenish 

 blue centres, the former conjoined to a similar spot below the cell 

 and forming a figure-of-eight-shaped mark, also connected with 

 the reniform which is connected with the costa by a white patch ; 

 postmedial line dark brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then double and slightly oblique to vein 4, then single, very 

 oblique, and waved, some white strise with dark streaks between 

 them beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, waved, angled 

 outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; a waved dark brown terminal line ; 

 cilia grey intersected with dark brown at the veins. Hind wing 

 white tinged and irrorated with brown especially in female, the 

 veins and a discoidal spot brown ; a chocolate-brown streak in 

 extremity of submedian fold and on the cilia beyond it ; the 

 underside with the discoidal spot more distinct, a postmedial line 

 excurved to vein 5, then obliquely incurved. 



Ab. 1. armena. Paler, the fore wing grey. 



Ab. 2. bipartita. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform 

 separate. 



Ab. 3. orhimaciolata. Fore wing with a small round white mark 

 before the orbicular. 



Hah. ButtaijS', Leech Coll., Ireland {Salvage') ; France ; 

 Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland; Italy; M.A-LTA(B.-Flefchfr); Greece; BalKj\n 

 States; Scandinaa'IA ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; Syria. IJxp. 38-46 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Lep. Erit. p. 56; Barrett, Brit. Lep. iii. p. 177, pi. 115. f. 2. 



Blue-o-rey; dorsal line yellow, interrupted; spiracular line yellow; 

 warts black. Food-plants, Hawthorn and Blackthorn. 4-6. 



Species omitted. 



Plusia f?/s;7^Z/<9??s, Wlk. xxxiii. 838 (1865). Type lost.. Ceylon. 

 hUdelranfi, Saalm. Lep. Madag. p. 392 (1891). 



Madagascar. 

 incompta, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 40 (1869). 



Type lost Hab. ign. 



incrassata, Herr.-Schaff. Corres]D.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. 

 liegensb. xxii. p. 184 (1868). ? = Phytometra himacu- 



lata Cuba. 



litterata, Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Ver. xh. p. 137 (1888). 



Amboina. 



melanocephala, Moschl. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiii. 



p. 297, pi. xvi. f . 11 (1884). ? = Phytometra limhirena. 



Cape Colonv. 

 modesfa, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 40 (1869). Type 



lost Peru. 



temperata, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 41 (1869). 

 Type lost Hab. ign. 



