348 PHYTOMETRA. By W. Warren. 



excelsa. P. excelsa Krelsch. ( = metabractea Btlr.) (64 d). Forewing purplish pink shaded with olive brown; 



the lines plain; inner and outer lines double, the inner filled in wilh faintly lustrous scales; the median area 

 below middle paler brown, the metallic blotch narrower than in bractea and less sinuous; lower margins of 

 orbicular and reniform stigmata finely golden; submarginal line waved, lying on an olive brown shade; 

 liindwing as in bractea, but with a distinct dark outer line; the fringe paler. Found in Russia, St. Petersburg, 

 the Ural Mts. ; also in the Altai Mts., Amurland, and Japan. This species seems to stand in much the same 

 relation to bractea as iota to pulchrina. 



argyrosigna. P. argyrosigna Moore (64 d). Forewing purplish brown; the lower half of the median area and an 



irregular oblique subterminal shade deeper brown; inner line faintly lustrous violet, angled on subcostal and 

 again on median vein, then obliquely curved inwards; outer line indistinct, lunulate dentate, pale with dark 

 brown edging, preceded on inner margin by a ferruginous patch; costa at base ferruginous ; stigmata obscure; 

 the orbicular narrow and oblique; their lower margins shortly metallic; the mark on vein 2 curved, long and 

 narrow, bright silver; a bronzy patch at anal angle; hindwing pale bronzy fuscous, diffusely deep fuscous 

 along termen, with traces of a paler median line; the veins slightly darker. An Indian species, but occurring 

 in the Kashmir valley. 



chryson. P- chryson Esp. ( = orichalcea Hbn. nee /''., aerifera Sowerby) (64 e). Forewing brownish fuscous 



tinged with purple: lines dark brown, inconspicuous; inner line waved, oblique inwards; median line visible 

 only at costa; a large subquadrate shining brassy blotch beyond cell between veins 7 and 3, the space 

 between it and inner margin suffused with deep golden brown, both traversed by the fine outer line, which 

 becomes lustrous towards inner margin ; submarginal line very obscure, waved, limiting the brassy and brown 

 patches; hindwing pale bronzy fuscous, darker towards termen. Larva green; dorsal line darker green, 

 white-edged; some oblique whitish lateral stripes; spiracles white; feeding on Eupatorium. Occurs in Britain, 

 France, S. Germany, the Swiss Alps, Galicia, Rumania, the Bukowina, and the Ural Mts. : in Armenia, the 

 Altai Mts., Amurland, Corea, and Japan. 



leonina. P. leouina Oberth. (= humeralis Btlr.) (64 e). Exactly like chryson Esp., but without the large brassy 



blotch. Described by Oberthur from Sidemi, Amurland, and recorded by Leech from Yesso. In the subsp. 

 bieti. bieti Oberth. (64 e) from West China there is no velvety brown shade on inner margin of forewing. 



zosimi. P. zosimi Hbn. (64 e). Forewing glossy green, the costal and terminal areas narrowly brownish; a 



diffuse brown costal triangle containing the 3 dark-edged stigmata; a dark somewhat hook shaped mark on 

 inner margin represents the outer lower portion of basal patch: the bright green area is limited outwardly 

 by a widely outcurved outer line, which is preceded on inner margin by a dark triangular mark, and followed 

 by a small dark blotch at anal angle; hindwing shining pale fuscous, with darker outer line and terminal 

 border separated by a paler band. A local species found in Piedmont, Galicia, the Dobrulscha, and the Ural 

 Mts.; also in the Altai Mts., W. Siberia, in Amurland, and Japan. 



chrysitis. P. chrysitis L. (64 f). Forewing brassy green; the basal patch and broad median fascia, widening ot 



costa, purplish brown; subterminal line preceded by a shade showing deeper green in certain lights; the 



terminal area paler brown; the three stigmata with dark outlines; hindwing fuscous with the fringe pale; iy 



juncta. the ab. juncta Tutt (64 e) the median fascia is more or less widely broken in the middle, the two brassu 



aurea. green areas becoming confluent; -- in ab. aurea Haene (64 f) the green is deep golden, with the golden bands 



disjuncta. confluent; in ab. disjuncta Schultz (64 f), golden with the bands not confluent, while in ab. scintillans Schuttz 



" (64 f) the bands are. dull blue green. Larva green, with many fine whitish dorsal lines; sinuous white lines 



along the sides and a white stripe above the feet; polyphagous on low plants. Common throughout Europe, 



except Spain and Greece; in Asia Minor and through Central Asia to Japan. 



nadeja. P. nadeja Oberth. (64 f). Smaller than chrysitis L., with the median band uniformly widely interrupted, 



the basal patch smaller, with indented edge, and the shade before subterminal line brown and broken into 

 spots. Amurland and Japan. 



xlmochrysis. P. stenochrysis spec. nov. (64 f). As large as or larger than chrysitis, but with the forewing narrower; 



the costal portion of median fascia with conversely oblique edges, and nearly twice as wide on costa as in 

 nadeja. Several examples from Ichikishiri, Yesso, in Tring Museum. 



peponis. P. peponis F. (== agramma Guen., inchoata Walk.) (64 g). Forewing glossy olive grey, with dark 



olive fuscous patches at base of costa, in lower half of median area, and along termen, the last more bronzy; 

 all the markings blurred and indistinct; the outer line crenulate; some irregular dark patches along the lines 



