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basal dasli, above wbicb tbe base is pale. T. a. line black, double, the gray 

 center alone noticable, uot very irregular or much waved. Orbicular large, 

 rounded, witb incomplete black annulus, gray with a faint blackish dot. Reni- 

 form dark, upright, with a distinct reddish stain, a narrow black annulus inside 

 of which is a gray ring, the center dark. T. p. line indistinct. Subterminal 

 line whitish gray, preceded by uneven black cuneiform mark, cut by gray 

 shades accompanying veins 3 and 4, and followed by interspaceal black marks. 

 Terminal black interspaceal marks distinct. Hind wings whitish gray, irrorate 

 with fuscous, with longer fuscous hairs over internal margin, with blackish 

 discal dot and median line more apparent in $, , and concolorous fringes before 

 which the terminal black line is subcontinuous and very distinct ; beneath as 

 above, the black discal dot very distinct and the line marlied on the veins. 



Expaiue, 34 m. m. 



Three specimens sent by Mr, Behrens under tlie number 11, and 

 labelled " Oakland, January." A single sj^ecimen bears the number 

 " 625, California." Both Xylomiges curialis and X. patalis are 

 again sent me by Mr. Behrens; specimens of the latter species are 

 labelled " Mendocino." 



(27.) Plusia bractea, 8. V. 



A specimen sent by Mr. Behrens with the label " Mendocino, 

 June," cannot be specially separated from European material of the 

 species in the collection of this Society. 



(28.) Plusia 8-scripta, Sanborn. 



A species allied to P. mortuorum. Blackish and steel gray, in some speci- 

 mens a faint rufous shade on t. p. line near submedian fold. T. p. line perpen- 

 dicular, geminate, waved or trembled, and oifering thus a distinguishing 

 feature from Guenee's species. The metallic spot incompletely 8-shaped, open 

 superiorly, pale yellowish or silvery ; t. a. line not silvery, as in mortuorum, 

 zigzag, geminate. Reniform similar to mortuorum in shape, but without any 

 silvery shading, margined with black, enclosing a very fine silvery line. Sub- 

 terminal line much as in mortuorum. Terminal line black followed by a dis- 

 tinct pale gray marginal shade following the scollops of the line. Fringe 

 alternately gray and black. Hind wings with a wide diffuse blackish border, 

 else pale with a sort of dirty yellowish brown tinge, like mortuorum. Beneath 

 with faint median line and spot. 



Exjjanse, 35 m. m. Anticosti Island (Couper) ; Racine (0. Meske) ; 

 Mass. (Prof. Packard). By a clerical error I have written the name 

 "^-signata" on p. 72, Vol. G, Can. Ent. 



