GRAPE-VINE. LEAVES SPECIES OF PLUME-MOTHS. 145 



and apical third of the hind shanks brownish on their outer sides. Wings ex- 

 pand one inch. Occurs the latter part of June, on weeds along the borders of 

 meadows. 



The Cloudy Plume (P. nebulcedactylus) is milk white, the fore wings 

 clouded with pale tawny brown which color occupies the basal portion and 

 forms two broad bands towards the apex, the last one often faint and not 

 perceptible on the inner lobe; hind wings and their fringe and under side of 

 both pairs of the same pale tawny brown color; abdomen white, sides and 

 stripe on the middle of the back pale tawny brown ; legs white. Wings expand 

 one inch. The tawny marks on the fore wings are often obscure in old indi- 

 viduals and sometimes wholly obliterated; still the species may be discrimi- 

 nated by the pale tawny color of the hind wings and the under surface of the 

 fore one contrasting with the whiteness of their upper surface. It is our most 

 common species, occurring from the middle of June till the middle of July, in 

 yards around dwellings, frequently entering opened windows in the evening, 

 being attracted by the light of the lamps. 



The Freckled Plume (P. ruBvosidactylus). Milk white, the fore wings 

 sprinkled with black atoms, which form a black spot at the commencement of 

 ■the cleft and a dot half way from this to the base; a tawny brown spot on the 

 outer margin near the tip; fringes, under side, hind wings and their fringes 

 ashy brown. Wings expand 0.90. Appears towards the middle of August, in 

 rthe same situation as the preceding. 



The Chalky Plume (P. cretidaetylus) is white, tinged with tawny yellow, 

 and has a small brownish black spot on the fere wings at the cleft and a brown 

 streak on the outer margin slightly beyond the black spot, with traces of a 

 brown oblique band from the one to the other; legs white, four anterior 

 shanks banded each with a broom-like tuft of scales of a pale tawny yellow 

 color at tip and another upon the middle. Expands one inch. Taken the 

 middle of July, in forests. 



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