. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 538 :. 8370. Phytometra gamma. Noctua gamma, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. .513 (1758); Esp. Schmetf, iv. pi. cxi. f. 1; Hlibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. ; Diip vii. 2. p. 41, pi. 136. f. 4; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. iii. p. 103 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 544; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. Plusia ffammitia, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238 (1901). Plusia alejnca, Nitsche, Verb, Ges. Wien, Ixi. p. 62 (1911). Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey, the tegulse with dark Kne at middle and tipped
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 538 :. 8370. Phytometra gamma. Noctua gamma, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. .513 (1758); Esp. Schmetf, iv. pi. cxi. f. 1; Hlibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. ; Diip vii. 2. p. 41, pi. 136. f. 4; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. iii. p. 103 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 544; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238. Plusia ffammitia, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 238 (1901). Plusia alejnca, Nitsche, Verb, Ges. Wien, Ixi. p. 62 (1911). Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey, the tegulse with dark Kne at middle and tipped with grey ; antennse ringed blackish and white toAvards base ; tarsi ringed with whitish; abdo- men grey tinged with red-brown, the crests red-brown at tips. Tore wing grey with a golden cupreous gloss and irrorated and striated with brown, the medial area with a patch of golden-brown suffusion below the cell; subbasal line silvery defined on each side by golden brown towards costa, with a black point before it above subcostal nervure and a black striga below the cell, sinuous, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line silvery defined on each side by golden brown, angled outwards below costa, strongly incm-ved in cell, then oblique and sinuous; orbicular with silvery annulus, oblique, elliptical; an oblique silver Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail somewhat dilated at extremity ; reniform Avith silvery oiTtline and small blackish marks in its extremities, its inner edge. Fig. 126.—Phytometra gamma, (^. \. oblic|ue, its outer strong!}^ constricted at middle with a small blackish mark beyond it; postmedial line golden brown filled in with silvery white, bent outv/ards below costa, then oblique and very slightly sinuous to vein 2 where it is angled inwards, then exciu'ved and waved, some whitish suffusion beyond it on costal half and some whitish points on costa ; sub terminal line brown "with golden-brown suffusion before it, excurved below vein 7 and angled outwards b
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