PHTTOMETKA. 



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Plusia innaia, Herr.-Scbiiff. Corresp.-blatt. zool.-min. Ver. Regensb. xxii 



p. 184 (1868). 

 Piusia comma, Schultz, Intern. Eiit. Zeit. i. p. 32 (1907). 

 Plusia ni, deserticola, Obertb. ined. Rotbs. ? JJoy. Zool. xs. p. 129 (1913). 



Head and thorax nifous mixed with whitish, the tegular with 

 slight blackish line at middle defined behind by w'hite scales ; abdo- 

 men pale rufous, the crests red-brown and whitish, the ventral 

 surface white tinged with nif ous. Fore wing whitish irrorated and 

 striated with black-brown and siiffused with red-brown with a 

 golden cupreous gloss ; subbasal line white defined on each side by 

 red-brown and with a black striga before it below the cell, sinuous, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, red-brown 

 filled in with white, waved, oblique below the cell ; orbicular white, 

 its centre defined by red-brown, oblique elliptical ; an oblique 

 silvery-white V-shaped stigma below the cell, with spot beyond 

 its lower extremity Avith some red-brown in centre, its arms 

 filled in with white ; postmedial line double, red-brown filled in 

 with white, bent outwanLs below costa, then oblique and minutely 



Fig. 121. — Phytometra ni, (S . 



waved, bent outwards below submedian fold, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blackish slightly defined on 

 outer side by white and Avith short black streaks before it from 

 below costa to above A^ein 4, dentate ; a fine Avhite line before 

 teimen and a fine dark terminal line ; cilia Avith a Avhito line 

 at base followed by a series of red-brown lunviles. Hind Aving 

 Avhitish suffused AAath cupreous red-broAvn, the tenninal area cu]:ireous 

 red-brown ; cilia Avhite Avith a red-brown line near ba.se ; the under- 

 side vAdiite tinged Avith rufous, the costal ai'ea irrorated Avith broAvn 

 and the terminal area slightly suffused Avith brown. 



Ab. 1. comma. Fore wing Avith the stigma forming a Y-mark. 



Ab. 2. deserticola. Foi'e Aving slightly paler and less rufous. 



Hah. Jamaica, Kingston {Cockerell), 1 5 ) ^.'i'ba ; Haiti 



