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Pliisia Pasipliaeia^ Grote, Plate 4, fig. 1, $ . 



(, . — Pale yellow with a rosy tinge, size of aereoides and resembling that species 

 in the rigid transverse posterior line which is here, however, whitish, and not 

 followed by a golden band. The costal region of the primaries and the base to 

 the t. a. line, are very pale. The very narrow linear silvery white mark reminds 

 one of simplex. It is confluent with the t. a. line, rising from the internal 

 margin of the wing and running upwardly to median nervure where it forms 

 a wide arc running obliquely outwardly and downwardly to a point above sub- 

 median fold, whence it runs backward and upwardly to the nervure, thus 

 allowing the pale squamation of the costal region to extend downwardly be- 

 low the m. nervure in an oblique V-shaped manner at the center of the wing. 

 The faint obliquely placed orbicular is visible on a paler portion of the discal 

 field, darker ringed. The subterminal space is dark, being pale fuscous and the 

 subterminal line is dark, inwardly arcuate opposite the cell, rising again towards 

 the margin between veins 3 and 4. Hind wings pale dusty yellow with faint 

 wide darker borders, and faint interior line. Beneath very pale yellow with 

 obsolete shadings. Thorax with a light purple or rosy cast, collar pale-edged. 

 Abdomen with basal tufts. A rather slight species. 



Expanse, 32 m. m. HaMtat, California (coll. Mr. Hy. Edwards, 

 No. 152). Two male specimens. 



Plusia Putnami, Orote, Plate 4, fig. 2, <j . 



$ . — A brilliant species of the colors of festucae, but with more produced 

 apices and rounded external margin, the primaries being more like aereoides 

 in their general shape. Golden yellow, the base powdered with orange-red scales 

 and with the linear transverse shades traced in orange-red on the costal region 

 at base. Beyond the t. a. line the region about internal margin is washed with 

 pale golden as in festucae, irrorate with orange-red scales. The angulate me- 

 dian shade and all the lines are comparative more distinct, but seem to have 

 the same general course as in festucae. The median metallic spots are, how- 

 ever, very different. Of these there are two in our new species, narrowly edged 

 with black and subspherical. Their bases rest on the interspace above the sub- 

 median fold. The first spot extends above median nervure, and is more nar- 

 rowly and roundedly terminated on the discal cell. The outer and smaller spot 

 is distinctly separate and seems to extend upwardly slightly beyond vein 3. In 

 festucae the spots are fused and elongate, while the inner portion of the spot 

 does not attain the median nervure and has a difierent conformation. The 

 wing has a pale rosy tinge absent in festucae. A black dot above vein 6 at its 

 base, the indication of the reniform. The apical golden shade is limited to 

 paler diffuse washing, and is not extended broadly inwardly above vein 5, and 

 emphasized as in festucae. Hind wings pale fuscous wanting the rosy tint of 



