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Blackish, scale powderings cover the surface throughout, but are most 

 prominent in the paler parts of the wing. There is a continuous, brown, 

 terminal line. The orbicular is round, broadly ringed with silver, and 

 the center is somewhat gilded. Below this spot is a U-shaped mark, 

 broadly silver margined and centered with the ground color. The reni- 

 form is obscure, scarcely outlined, and so nearly like the ground color 

 that it is recognizable only on close examination. Secondaries whitish 

 with a smoky suffusion and somewhat iridescent. Fringes whitish, set 

 off by a continuous, blackish, terminal line. On the underside the wing 

 is whitish, powdered with gray, and on both pairs there is a more or less 

 obvious median line and a subterminal shade; also a continuous, blackish, 

 terminal line. Expands 39 mm.; 1.56 inches. 



Hab. Calgary, 1894. 



The specimen is numbered 20, and is said by Mr. Dod to be 

 unique. The species is a strongly marked one, quite different in 

 character from thos"e heretofore described, and it agrees with 

 them in the enormously long palpi which project for half their 

 length above the vertex. 



Plusia insolita n sp. PI. xv, fig. 17. Ground color a rich golden brown 

 with metallic reflections. Head uniform, rusty brown in color. Collar 

 is tipped with bluish gray, beneath which is a rusty brown band, inferiorly 

 margined by another gray line, and the lowest portion is yet paler; more 

 grayish. Thoracic vestiture gray tipped, the usual tuftings prominent. 

 Abdominal tuftings also well marked, prominent, and brown. Taken as 

 a whole the primaries have a brown base, velvety in parts, and with golden 

 reflections when turned obliquely to the light. Along the costa and in 

 the basal space is a suffusion of lilac gray scales, and beyond the t. p. line 

 is a broad lilac band. In the terminal space are other lilac shadings. 

 Below the silvery mark, which extends through the median space, is a 

 yellowish streak, broadest at the t. p. line. Basal line silver gilt, preceded 

 by a few black scales, and joining the base in the submedian interspace. 

 T. a. line silver gilt, followed by black scales and preceded by golden 

 brown. It is outwardly bent from the costa, touches the orbicular, and is 

 then inwardly oblique, reaching the hind margin very close to the base. 

 T. p. line yellowish, a little silvered, preceded and followed by narrow, 

 brown, defining lines. It is acutely angulated on the costa, then evenly 

 oblique inwardly to the silver mark, where it makes an abrupt angle over 

 the submedian vein, and is thence evenly oblique to the inner margin. 

 S. t. line very irregularly sinuate, with a broad outward tooth nearly op- 

 posite the middle of the outer margin. There is a narrow, terminal, 

 brown line, and a slender line through the fringes. The ordinary spots 

 an- fairly evident; the orbicular elongated, oval, decumbent, deep brown, 

 with a slender silver outline, and it rests upon the beginning of the silvery 

 .mark which extends from that point in the form of two lines which unite 



