144 GRAPE-VINE. LEAVES SPECIES OF PLUME-MOTHS. 



brown atoms; towards their tips brownish black. An oblique tawny yellow 

 band ending in white on the outer margin extends across the outer lobe near 

 its base, and on the apex of the outer margin is a white stripe. The fringe 

 along their inner margin is blackish, with a few white hairs forming a small 

 spot at its apex, another white spot forward of it, a larger one towards the 

 base of the inner lobe, and a small one forward of the base of this lobe. The 

 hind wings and their fringes are blackish brown, and the inner lobe near the 

 middle of its inner side sends out some coal black scales forming a spot of 

 this color in the fringe, with a faint ash gray spot immediately forward of it. 

 Beneath, the wings are blackish brown and the anterior pair have three equi- 

 distant white streaks on the outer margin, the first rather forward of the 

 middle of the last on the apex; the outer lobe of the hind wings has a white 

 spot near its tip, the inner lobe has a slight white spot on its apex and another 

 on the middle of its inner margin. The antennas are black with white rings, 

 and on their under sides ash grey. The abdomen has white stripes on its un- 

 der side. The legs are striped alternately with black and white and are banded 

 with a broom-like tuft of black scales at each pair of spines. The spines are 

 white, their bases, under sides, and also the tips of those on the middle shanks, 

 black. The feet are white with a black band on the apex of each joint, and 

 the hrst joint of the two anterior pairs has a black stripe on its outer side. 

 The wings when spread measure 0.80 from tip to tip. Taken the last of June 

 on bushes in meadows. 



The Slender-lobed Plume (P. tenuidocylus*) is of a dark tawny brown 

 color somewhat tinged with coppery red, and on the fore wings has a white 

 spot towards the base of each lobe, and often on the outer lobe has a transverse 

 white streak between the spot and the apex; their fringe is whitish, with a 

 black spot in the middle and larger one at the apex of the inner margin. The 

 hind wings are of the same color, their lobes very slender, the inner one thread- 

 like, white, its fringes white with a broad black band near the tip. The legs 

 are white, striped with black, the feet and hind shanks with black bands. 

 The antennas are white with a slender black ring to each joint. The abdomen 

 is blackish, and at base on the under side silvery white. The wings when ex- 

 tended measure 0.60 across. This species is common upon brakes and other 

 weeds growing in swamps in the middle of July. 



The Ashy Plume ( P. cincridactylus') is ash grey throughout, of a darker tint 

 upon the breast. The fore wings are sprinkled with blackish brown atoms, 

 chiefly towards the inner margin and the base. The antennas have a pale brown 

 ring on each joint, which is widely interrupted on the under side. The feet 

 and shanks are whitish and the hind shanks have a faint brownish band at 

 tip and another on the middle. The expanded wings measure 0.75. Taken 

 the fore part of July, in yards around dwellings. 



The Brown-bordered Plume (P. marginidactylus) is tawny brown, the 

 fore wings varied with white cloud-like spots, whereof there is one on the 

 outer margin towards the tip and two on the inner margin, the apical and 

 outer margins and a cloud-like central space extending from the cleft inwards 

 are of a dark brown color; fringe whitish, brown at the outer and inner apical 

 angles, and a small brown spot beyond the middle of the inner margin; under 

 side and hind wings pale tawny brown ; legs white, thighs, anterior shanks 



