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marks being olive brown. Terminally the wing is washed with pale 

 golden and there are two deeper golden shades resting on the whitish 

 terminal line below the apex, the lower triangulate. The s. t. line is also 

 superiorly preceded by darker shades. The ordinary lines are pale 

 golden. Fringes pale, dotted at base, with a more prominent black dot 

 opposite vein 3 and the triangulate deeper gold mark. Hind wings largely 

 blackish fuscous, with pale fringes. Beneath with double lines. Nearest 

 to precationis, a little smaller, paler, not purple colored, the median space 

 all golden inferiorly. 



Expanse 34 m. m. Texas, Belfrage, Nov, 2, No. 142. 



Also from Jamaica, Mr. Thaxter, No. 2,076. 



It may be distinguished from verruca, also, by the subterminal line not 

 forming a broad tooth apically below costa, but being here rounded to 

 the sinus opposite the cell. 



Plusia pedalis, 11. s. 



Allied to gamma and ou. Hind wings wholly blackish fuscous, with 

 whitish fringes lined at base. Fore wings more uniformly dark colored 

 with the ornamentation of ou, but with the yellowish open metallic mark 

 short, broad and somewhat foot-shaped, without any accompanying dot. 

 Beneath dark, with median common line. 



Expanse 36 m. m. Kansas, Prof. Snow, No. 273. 



The following is a list of our North American species, following the 

 method of Dr. LeConte's Catalogue of N. A. Coleoptera, adopted in 

 Part 1 of the List of North American Lepidoptera by the late Mr. Cole- 

 man T. Robinson and myself, published in Philadelphia, Sept., 1868. 



Plusia Hubn. (1806). 

 Type, Plusia chrysitis of Europe. 



1 — purpurigera Grote. 6— contexta Groie. 



Dera purp. Walk. 7 — Putnami Grote* 



2 — aerea Guen. 8 — striatella Grote. 



Agrapha aerea Hiibn. 9 — formosa Morrr' * 

 3 — aereoides Grote. Leptina form. Grote. 



4 — balluca Guen. io--thyatiroides Guen. 



Dyachrisia ball. Geyer. 1 1 — mappa G. &> R. 



• 5 — metallica Grote. 12 — bimaculata Steph. 



PL bractea % Grote. PI. u-brevis Guen. 



