468 >OCTUTD.E. 



tips and patagia at ti])s with black lines defined behind hy white 

 scales ; the spurs and tarsi Landed hlack and white ; ahdonien grey 

 tinged with red-brown, some whitish hair at base, the crests dark 

 brown and whitish at tips, the lateral tufts of male inifous. Fore 

 wing brown mixed with grey and irrorated with black, tinged in 

 parts with rufous ; subbasal line indistinctly double, brown filled 

 in with whitish, slightly angled outwards below costa and cell and 

 ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 brown filled in by whitish, waved ; orbicular defined by Avhite, 

 narrow, oblique, somewhat constricted at middle ; an oblique 

 silvery- white Y-shaped stigma below the cell, its tail dilated into an 

 elliptical spot ; renifonn very indistinct and defined by a few white 

 scales, constricted at middle ; jx)stmedial line dark brown slightly 

 defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwaixls below costa. then 

 oblique and minutely waved, somewhat bent outwards below sub- 

 median fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subteniiinal 

 line bkckish slightly defined on outer side by white and with short 

 black streaks before it from below costa to above vein 4, dentate ; 

 a fine waved blackish terminal line ; cilia with red-bro\Nni line near 

 base and intersected with red-brown at the veins. Hind wins: red- 

 brown with a cupreous gloss, the interspaces of basal half with some 

 whitish ; cilia white with a maculate brown line near base ; the 

 underside avhite thickly irrorated with brown. a slight brown discoidal 

 striga and indistinct diffused curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma consisting of a U-shaped 

 mark with spot beyond its lower exti'emity. 



Hah. Canada, Ottawa (FlefcJier), 2 J ; U.S.A., throughout, 

 New York {Speyer), 1 J , 2 $ , Missouri {Biley). 3 S . Alabama, 

 1 ?, Colorado, Boulder (Cockerell), 1 d" , 4 ? , Denver (Oshir), 

 1 d, 3 2, California (BeJir, B' Urban), 3 J, 2 $, Marina Co., 

 1 (S , Arizona, Phoenix (iLunze), 7 c? , 5 5 , Prescott {Kinize), 1 S , 

 1 2; Mexico. Jalapa (TntjiUo), 1 d , 2 ? , Godman-Siilvin ColL 

 Bxp. 34-42 millim. 



Larva. Eiley. Rppt. U S. Dept. Agric. 1883, p. 110, pis i. & xi. 



Green with Avhitish dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines, sometimes 

 wanting ; 1st two pairs of prolegs absent. Food-plants : Cabbage, 

 Tui'iii]), Tomato. Reseda, Tarax/cinn, Iit/)iie.i\ Crepis, C/ieiiojwdiinii, 

 Trifoiium, Senecio. Extremely desti'uctive. 



8292. Fhytometra ni. 



JS'oc/ua vi, niibn. Eur. Sclniictt., Xoct. f. 284 (1802); Dup. Lcp. Fr. vii. 



2. p. 44, pi. 137. f. 1 : Fit. Neue Reitr. pi. 23. f. 1 ; Kn;.ggs, Ent. Ann. 



18f.9, p. 124 & 1870, f. 3; Mill. Icones, iii. p. 394, pi. 149. ff. 11-13; 



Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 159; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 128, pi. 243. C. 2 



Huip.-,n. Mollis Incl. ii. p. 5711: Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239. 

 PhMa humi/if, ^Ylk^ xii. 91.^ (I8ri7). 

 P/iisia CT^rahriiK, Wlk. xii. 929 (18:»7). 

 Pi'uxia ^iff)njicav.<. Wlk. xii. 930 (18r.7). 



