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121. Behre?isia conchiformis. N. s. 



$ . Thorax and fore wings blackish gray. Median lines deep black, 

 distinct, sinuous, geminate ; a fine line precedes the t. a. and succeeds 

 the t. p. line. T. a line with a costal tooth, rather deeply undulate. 

 Median space much shaded with black, obscuring the rounded claviform. 

 Orbicular large, round, whitish, with dark centre. A white shade obtains 

 between the spots, extending below the median vein, and touches the 

 large reniform, which has a dark central streak touched with green. Green 

 and slightly orange scales are scattered along the subcostal vein, along the 

 obsolete basal half line, beyond the t. p. line, and the scalloped terminal 

 line is green, of the light hue of copperas. Subterminal line faint, pale. 

 Hind wings pale in the disc, the pale portion neatly defined by a mesial 

 black streak. Beneath the mesial black line is distinct and denticulate, 

 and the white disc shows a black streak less noticeable above. A second, 

 sub-basal line is costally visible. Fore wings show a black curved extra 

 mesial line, else both wings are blackish gray. The body hairs beneath 

 are tinged with reddish, as in some species of Plusia. Expanse 29 m. m. 



Mr. Behrens, No. 226, California (Sauzalito). 



The handsome species appears to me to differ generically from any of 

 the forms included by Lederer in Plusia, by the obtuse, dependent third 

 article of the loosely held, hanging palpi. The collar is unusually pro- 

 jected, without being broad. The head is more sunken than in any 

 species of Plusia known to me. The base of the antennae are shielded 

 by long hair tufts. 



122. Graphiphora Behrensiana. N. s. 



The eyes are hairy. The fore wings are coarsely irrorate with black, 

 of a dull brown ground color, darker to the pale subterminal line, beyond 

 which they are paler, with the veins pale marked. The costal edge is 

 carneous. The lines are pale, tolerably approximate on internal margin, 

 rather even, with blackish margins, the t. a. line outwardly oblique, the 

 t. p. line flexuous. Ordinary spots large, pale margined, fused, so that 

 there is a resemblance to some species of Glaea. Hind wings soiled 

 white, sparsely irrorate, with a discal dot, concolorous fringes and a 

 broken terminal line. Beneath whitish, a continuous line on primaries, 

 dotted on the hind wings ; discal marks double on fore wings ; very 

 distinct on secondaries. Expanse 35 m. m. 



