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PHYTOMETRA. By W. Warren. 



curved; the gamma-mark either small, with the arms separate from the tail, or large and complete; reniform 

 stigma with its outer edge slightly indented, the black specks minute; the red patch beyond the tail of the 

 gamma sometimes obsolete, and the golden flush on inner marginal area and towards apex slight. Recorded 

 from Sikkim and Burma; occurs also in Yatong, Tibet. 



pyropia. P. pyropia Bth: (64 h). Forewing grey brown; median area below cell and the terminal area except 



at anal angle golden coppery; inner and outer lines dark, nearly straight, the inner obscured above median 

 vein; subcellular mark crochet-shaped, separate from the round spot; subterminal line irregularly waved; 

 hindwing brownish fuscous. An Indian species extending into Japan. 



omatissima. P. ornatissima Walk. (= chalsytis Koll. nee Tr., locuples Oberth.) (64 h), Forewing larger than 



pyropia, the metallic shadings more brassy, those near termen less diffused; subbasal line silvery towards 

 costa; the inner angled below median nervure; the two parts of the Y-mark very large, prominent, and 

 silvery; a golden speck on each side of the orbicular and reniform; the outer line more erect; hindwing 

 dark fuscous. An Indian species extending into China and Japan. 



dives. 



aemula. 



deaurata. 



setm- 

 ar gen tea. 



P. dives Ev. (64 h). Forewing greyish fawn colour, shaded with olive brown in the median area; 

 the veins finely black; basal and inner lines both acutely angled on subcostal vein, their upper half filled in 

 with silvery scales, the inner also broadly silver below middle, and emitting a pointed streak outwards above 

 vein 1 ; below the middle a solid silver V, coalescing above with the oblique silvery orbicular, and followed 

 on vein 2 by a large silvery oval blotch; reniform ferruginous, preceded by a small and followed by a larger 

 curved silver spot; outer line blackish, outcurved, below middle accompanied by brown lines on either side, 

 and marked with silvery scales at inner margin; subterminal line preceded by interrupted black marks, 

 followed by a rosy brown shade; terminal line black preceded by a slightly lustrous pale line; hindwing 

 deep yellow, with a broad black terminal border and yellow fringe. Occurs in the Altai Mts., Urga, Amdo, 

 Tibet, Dauria, N. Amurland, Kamschatka. 



P. aemula Schiff. (= lamina F., chrysomelas Bkh.) (64 i). Forewing pinkish grey; the veins finely 

 brown ; lower half of median area velvety brown, slightly ferruginous towards outer line, containing a brilliant 

 silvery tongue-shaped mark along vein 2; inner and outer lines brown, double, filled in with ground colour, 

 the inner below the middle with golden scales, the outer only at inner margin; subterminal line concave 

 from costa to vein 6, preceded by a black brown shade, below faintly brown; reniform stigma slightly glossy, 

 oblique, with black brown outline; marginal line brown; fringe concolorous; hindwing dull pale grey, with 

 the veins dark and terminal border fuscous. Larva green, with white waved dorsal and subdorsal lines and 

 white lateral lines; a fine line above the spiracles; spiracular line white and distinct; head and forelegs 

 green; tubercles white; feeds on various low plants, as Leontodon, Hieracium, Plantago. Found in the Swiss 

 Alps, Bavaria, Austria, and Styria; on the Urals and in Armenia. 



P. deaurata Esp. (= aurea Hbn.) (64 i). Forewing pale golden, finely dusted with rufous, the basal 

 and terminal areas dull, grey brown; the costa at base golden; lines brown, double; the inner angled outwards 

 on subcostal vein and again on submedian fold, thence obliquely sinuous inwards; outer line double, oblique 

 outwards to vein 7, there bluntly angled and incurved to vein 4, then more vertical, with a slight dent on 

 the fold, to inner margin, the outer arm from the angle leaden black; beyond and close to it, the brown 

 diffuse submarginal line, angled on vein 8; the veins brown; two dark dots, one on each side of vein 3, in 

 the obscurely paler teeth of the submarginal line externally; orbicular stigma golden, oblique, brown-edged; 

 an equally obscure ringlet below it on vein 2 ; reniform obscured by a diffuse brown median shade ; hindwing 

 shining pale fuscous, with dark veins, outer line, and terminal border; the ab. semiargentea Alph., from 

 Bokhara, differs only in having the forewings paler and the hindwings darker. Larva grass green, with 5 

 white lines on the thoracic segments; each segment from the 4 th with a dark green white-edged lunule, and 

 a conical prominence on the 11 th ; lateral stripe dark green with white edges; spiracles white; head green; 

 on Thalictrum flavum and aquilegifolium. A southern species, inhabiting Portugal, Spain, Italy, the Southern 

 Alps, Lower Austria, Silesia, Carinthia, Hungary, Transylvania, the Bukowina, and S. Russia; also found in 

 Bokhara and the Altai Mts. 



v-argenteum. P. v-argenteum Esp. (= mya Hbn) (64 i). Forewing deep rosy, shaded with olive brown; inner and 



outer lines double, olive brown marked with black; the inner acutely angled outwards on subcostal vein and 

 vein I, both arms edged inwardly with rosy, above and below the angles with white; the outer running 

 outwards beneath costa, then bluntly rounded and oblique inwards, filled in with rosy and edged on both 

 sides with rosy, and externally on inner margin with white; submarginal line lustrous silvery, the shade 

 before it edged with black and mixed with black and olive scales; a broad pinkish white line before termen, 

 which is dark olive; fringe pink, externally mottled with green; in the olive median area below middle stands 



