CR \ SfBODES. — PLATTSENTA. 447 



Hah. Canada: U.S.A., Northern, Eastern, Middle, and Central 

 States (Dovbleday, Bury, Having), 3 (J, o J type and typo 

 coitjuw/ens, Kansas, 1 J, Texas, Dallas (Boll), 1 d 1 , Colorado, 

 Durango (Oslar), 1 6 , 3 $ . Exp. 30-34 millim. 



Larva. Head small, pale brownish. Body slender, the feet 

 equal ; preen with a distinct red substigmatal stripe, pale-centred : 

 a little red also in the double whitish dorsal line. Food-plant: 

 Verbena. — H. G. D. 



Genus PLATYSENTA. 



Type. 

 Platysenta, Grote, 6th Rep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 28 (1874) videns. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; antenna 1 of 

 male ciliated ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax 

 with spreading crests; build slender; tibia moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather ample, the apex 

 somewhat produced and acute, the termer, obliquely curved and hardly 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anatomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with black streaks beyond the cell above and 



below vein 4 temecula. 



B. Fore wing without black streaks beyond the cell above and 



below vein 4. 



a. Fore wing with blackish suffusion below median nervure. discistritjit. 



b. Fore wing without blackish suffusion below median 



nervure. 



o 1 . Fore wing rufous videns. 



b 1 . Fore wingochreous slightly tinged with reddish brown, albipuncta. 



*4141. Platysenta temecula. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 27.) 



Platysenta temecula, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxvii. p. 194 (1905). 



c? . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with fuscous ; tegulse 

 with slight dark medial line: abdomen whitish tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing reddish brown suffused in parts with fuscous, the veins 

 dark ; a diffused dark shade on median nervure, thence diffused to 

 termen above tornus, a slight oblique shade from termen just below 

 apex defined above and below by rather paler tones ; antemediul 

 line represented by a pale point on eosta; a white discoidal bar 

 with yellowish points before and beyond it ; black streaks beyond 

 the cell above and below vein 4 ; postmedial line just traceable, 

 with a pale point at costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered brown and 

 whitish. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown especially towards 

 termen ; cilia white with a dark line near base ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas tinged with reddish, a dark discoidal 

 point and postmedial line. 



